Now and Dead

  Now and Dead

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  A TREATMENT
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  BY MIKE COLONNA

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  Bruce Davis, a recent graduate of Michigan State
  University and his young girlfriend Dana drive down
  a rural eastern Michigan road in an older two door
  pick up truck. Their two year old German Shepherd
  is sitting quietly in the short bed.
  The weather is cool and we see the two having an
  intense conversation from the side windows. Their
  conversation becomes very animated. They are not
  paying attention to the road.

  While they travel at a high rate of speed we see
  Bruce making an exaggerated point while looking at
  Dana, his companion.
  Dana appears to be preoccupied texting. They’ve
  driven through a roadblock that posts “Dangerous
  Cliff Ahead.” Road Closed.” They have no idea what
  lies ahead. Bruce is still focused arguing with
  Dana, he notices something peculiar outside of her
  window, unworldly creatures hanging from a trees.
  As the truck moves faster down the road, more of
  these creatures are hanging from trees. They
  resemble, half human, wolf looking, vampires, flashing
  fangs and claws of lycanthropic beasts.
  Daylight turns to darkness. The wind begins to howl.
  Basko, their German Shepherd, begins making strange
  noises. Rain begins to pour, hail pelts the pickup
  truck. Visibility is close to zero.
  As the truck keeps moving forward, the creatures
  multiply.

Bruce motions Dana to look outside. Dana
  sees the unbelievable, she’s shocked.
  Fog is settling in, rain begins to pour, some of the
  vampire like creatures are morphing their appearance.
  Their eye sockets are filling with ocular fluids and
  the creatures muscles and cartilage can be heard
  adjusting and forming into whole vampires.
  Basko is howling, Bruce tries to slow down, but too
  late. The rain is blinding, and Bruce cannot slow
  the truck down, the pedal is stuck. The truck
  catapults off a 100 foot cliff.
  Basko manages to leap out before the truck hits large
  trees. As the truck slams into large branches
  breaking it’s fall, we see the young couple bouncing
  around the inside of the cab. As each branch breaks
  the trucks fall, the couple moan and groan with pain.
  Blood is everywhere.
  The pickup finally slams into the side of a large
  tree. A small fire starts up under the hood. We
  hear screaming and moaning.
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  Two young hikers witness the crash, they call 911
  and rush to the scene of the crash. The couple is moved by
  helicopter to a local Michigan Hospital.
  We see the two laying in hospital beds in life
  threatening condition.
  The doctors have operated on both using the latest
  life saving techniques that include transplanting
  cadaver bones, marrow and fluids from the local
  Medical University’s cadaver bank.
  Dana dies on the operating table after losing too
  much blood.
  Six months after the operation his personality has
  changed and now Bruce day dreams about Dana, the
  crash and the creatures that rushed past them before
  the horrible event.
  He acquires the records from the accident and
  researches the donor of the bone transplants.
  Bruce discovers the cadaver bones belonged to a
  professor at the Sandusky’s Medical repository.
  They donor a Professor Irving Shamsky. He died two
  months before Bruce and Dana’s accident, under strange
  circumstances.

  The professor, was in his late 50’s, was born in
  Eastern Europe, he studied Vampirology and received
  a PHD at Bucharest’s University of Medicine in Romania.
  His studies in Bucharest were in researching ancient
  Rumanian burial caves that were allegedly inhabited
  by Vampires.
  Bruce is now sure that he and Dana were received
  Shamsky’s cadaver bones and body fluids.
  Months of sleepless nights and visits by strange
  creatures hanging from the ceiling dripping blood
  would haunt Bruce’s dreams. The dreams turned into
  nightmares.
  Bruce, must get to the bottom of his nightmares and
  find out if there is a connection between Professor
  Shamsky and his accident.
  Bruce travels to Eastern Europe.

  When he arrives in Bucharest he investigates Professor
  Shamsky’s past. He finds two students that graduated
  from Shamsky’s classes.
  Ivanna, a young attractive, former student and now a
  producer for a local TV station, and Koman, who now
  teaches Vampirology and Folklore at another local
  university in Romania. Bruce is intent on finding
  out why his nightmarish visions tie into Professor
  Shamsky’s cadaver transplants.
  Before Shamsky left Romania he was researching
  sightings of locals residents rising from the dead.
  They took on traits that resembled Vampires, they
  were walking among the living.
  Bruce discovers that many of the murders of suspected
  men and women that rose from the dead were
  mysteriously killed during Professor Shamsky’s tenure
  at the University.
  Bruce learns that Shamsky was a professor by day,
  and butcher by night. Local Rumanian police
  investigating local murders were tracking Shamsky
  to the dead and missing.
  A few days before he would be charged, Shamsky left
  Romania. He revised his resume applied for and was
  admitted as a full professor at the Medical Hospital
  in Sandusky, Michigan.

  Bruce together with Ivanna and Koman begin to search
  grave sites of Shamsky’s alleged victims. Most of
  the missing or murdered were residents that lived
  while Shamsky was a professor at the University.
  Bruce, and Ivanna, would wait till midnight to visit
  the cemeteries where the Shamsky’s alleged victims
  were buried. The dead people they found were in
  excellent condition. Their skin was fresh, their
  lips were vibrant, their eyeballs were black, and
  their teeth were coated with blood. When the bodies
  were touched they would hiss, and bare fanged teeth.
  Bruce, Ivanna and Koman discovered underground tunnels
  where the dead bodies were buried.
  Bruce, had crawled through many of these tunnels,
  finding bones and other human remains. DNA and
  pictures were used to identity of the dead.
  One night, while secretly digging Bruce, Ivanna and
  Koman observed Vampire like creatures, floating
  around the cemetery, hanging from trees, morphing
  from skin to bones, howling...., their black webbed
  wings fluttering.

  Interviews with family members of the dead revealed
  many of their loved ones were students at the
  University’s Medical Center. And Shamsky was one of
  their professors. All fingers pointed to Shamsky’s
  as the butcher responsible for their death.
  Further investigation of Shamsky revealed DVD’s of
  interviews he filmed of himself. He discussed his
  need for human blood, described the taste and aroma,
  and how he chose his victims.
  After each kill, he would tape the event, describe
  how he lured his victims and then buried them alive.
  Bruce and Ivanna watched hours and hours of Shamsky’s
  DVD’s each interview described the horrific details
  of each death and burial.

  The DVD’s would map out where each body was buried.
  At night Bruce and Ivanna would dig up grave sites
  they found dead bodies that appeared recently buried.
  Their bodies seemed to still have the ability to be
  brought back to life.
  Through it all, Bruce and Ivanna became close friends.
  The end of their investigation shocked Ivanna and
  Bruce. During their grave digging they discover Shamsky’s
  body in perfect condition. Breathing! 

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