Uncharted Darkness – Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
Logline: A young mapmaker on an uncharted island, discovering aliens who microwave humans with earth crystals, must escape and warn the world… if he can first escape a beautiful woman who condones their torture.
Synopsis: JEREMY MCALLISTER moves to Charter Island to map out the undeveloped island for a real estate developer. Excited to see his only daughter AUDREY visit and enjoy the modest home he built on the bluff, Jeremy stocks it from the local grocery, a ramshackle house run by a middle-aged hippie, ARTIE BUDD. Jeremy’s idyllic hideaway and promise of a great career are disrupted when he inexplicably faints while surveying the island’s jungle at midday and awakens to find it is 9:30 pm. He discovers he has a bleeding nose and a melted camera. He meets two self-styled cops: beautiful NASREEN, an Iranian expat and Police Chief WAYLON BLOCK, a former marine. She escorts him to the local clinic where he meets the clinic’s only doctor. Block explains away Jeremy’s fainting and bleeding nose as due to a malfunctioning cell phone tower, but the doctor intimates the island is haunted by a black rectangular object in the sky (A UFO) that burns its victims.
Stories from the local bar about missing people, a cave with bloodless mutilated goats and a matte black object which pursues him one night, compel Jeremy to escape. He collects evidence to make his case believable using the doctor’s files and photos of the burned locals. He also enlists the help of Nasreen, Artie the grocer and the men from the bar. As they search for the missing, Jeremy witnesses gossamer aliens in an underwater cavern collecting crystals. Concerned for the safety of his daughter, he cancels Audrey’s visit. His escape is complicated by a broken bridge destroyed by the UFO, a disabled cell tower, an approaching hurricane and Chief Block who is suspicious of his motives.
As Jeremy attempts to stage a helicopter rescue with a pilot from his developer in Miami through email, he finds Artie dead from an implant in his skull. He is appalled to discover Dorothy did not get his message and unexpectedly arrives with their daughter in a chartered boat. Minutes after they disembark, the UFO sets the boat and its crew on fire. To his chagrin, Jeremy discovers Nasreen is in collusion with the aliens in exchange for healing her daughter’s leg, injured in Iraq.
Jeremy and his family must make it to the broken bridge by daybreak to rendezvous with the helicopter. However, as he and Chief Block, now allies, pack the jeep, the UFO appears during the eye of the hurricane. It fries Dorothy and Block to a crisp. Audrey runs from the scene and disappears.
Pursued through the jungle by the UFO, Jeremy grieves for his lost daughter as he makes for the rendezvous point without her. Under the bridge, he is overjoyed to discover Audrey had escaped unscathed by hiding under Block’s car. As the downpour gains from the hurricane, they leave the safety of the underpass and climb a metal basket up to the helicopter.
Safely back in Miami, Jeremy receives a mysterious visit from Nasreen who tells him the aliens’ agenda of finding and testing a healing crystal to bring back to their devastated planet. In a final farewell, she departs, entering the UFO which zips to the infinite black sky. As Jeremy holds Audrey’s hand and watches, he now believes that life exists outside of earth.
