Feature package
Horror · Domestic thriller · Feature
ALREADY
Afraid his girlfriend will leave, a man learns a doorway ritual that makes her stay—softer, apologetic, finally his. He keeps performing it after he realizes the sweetness is not her, because the copy is the relationship he always wanted.
Synopsis
A couple’s leave/stay fight under ordinary apartment noise — a fridge hum, a small metal click neither of them looks toward. When Sam Chen takes an out-of-state pediatric PT contract, Ren Vasquez cannot say “don’t go” cleanly. Their building super offers a doorway “joke” that is really a rule set: say a name in past-tense eulogy syntax at a threshold you’ve slept near, and someone stays soft. Early success feels like relief and looks like love — smiles arrive late; rooms stay too quiet. A public parking-lot kiss goes slightly late under sodium light. Proof lives in headphones and waveforms. A sister notices timing. Trying to be good has a cost. The guide will not ride along forever. ALREADY is contained domestic horror about rehearsing loss until something answers — wait-for-pop under ordinary rooms, real scare punctuation only, clarity without a soft close. Intimate cast. Lean locations. Sound-first.
Positioning
Contained theatrical horror feature (~95 min). Intimate cast. Apartment-primary locations. Sound-first scare grammar. Original package available for development conversation.
Rights
Available for conversation. Territory, term, and option structure discussed after inquiry — not offered as an open download.
Tone comps
- Moral-trap intimacy under ordinary rooms; preference and complicity as the scare engine.
- Person-locus haunt grammar: wait-for-pop domestic pressure, real punctuation, clarity ending without a soft close.
Tone register only. Not a claimed attachment.
Package
- TreatmentAfter inquiry
- Lookbook / visual referencesIncluded
- Tone compsIncluded
- Watermarked excerpt (gated)On the package
- Full screenplayAfter qualified inquiry
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