The Devil's Music

Ah Devil's Music. This project has been on and off so many times I can't tell if I'm working on it at this moment or if I've shelved it permanently. This was to be my first feature project. I've written 4 drafts, each one more concise than the previous. I've composed a temp soundtrack to help me visualize it more. I've cast and recast and recast. At various points during the project's development, my friend Rémi Fréchette was set to direct. At other times I was to handle those duties single handedly, à la Orson Welles. I'm sure if I ever put this project in production, I will leave it in the capable hands of my friend, and focus on the acting and scripting. This project has really given its name to development hell, as I burn with the thought of making it one day.

THE DEVIL'S MUSIC (2009)
Simon "Spider" Carpenter loves to give his friends one hell of a show when he has them over for the night. As this is the night after graduation, he feels he has to outdo himself as this is perhaps the last weekend they will spend together for a while before real life takes over their free time. For such an occasion, he has procured an item that is bound to entertain, surprise and shock. Cantata Dei Azrael, The Devil's Music, a vinyl that, if listened to backwards as a group, will give out satanic messages. He warns his friends however, as he has been warned by the mysterious shopkeeper who sold him the album, that it must not be listened to backwards alone, as the listener will be subjected to demonic possession. As the night goes by, friends have fun and frolic, but one of them, Jack Campbell, curious, takes the vinyl disc out of its pitch black envelope, turns on the machine, and becomes host to a demon from the depths of hell. One by one, his friends are butchered until only one of them is left to defend herself from the night. Will she survive once she has to face the music?