KEY INFO
30% of the project has been shot and edited.
Estimated release date: 2026 film festival season.
Est. Budget: $115,000.00.
Logline
A haunted investigator seeking solitude in the wilderness meets a woman lost in time; together, they face an entity that blurs the line between alien horror and inner demon.
*teaser consists of footage we have shot to date and does not have professional color grading or audio post work.
Film Synopsis
Miles Roost, a combat veteran and emotionally damaged investigator, seeks escape after a violent outburst lands him in court-mandated anger management. Loaded with spiritual texts, survival gear, and trauma he can’t shake, Miles ventures deep into the forest for a soul-cleansing “walkabout.”
What begins as a meditative exile unravels into a surreal nightmare. Anomalies in the woods-phantom footprints, guttural howls, and shifting compass needles-lead to a surprise meeting with Temperance, a frightened woman who became lost after a mysterious encounter with light, sound, and beings not of this world.
As Miles and Temperance forge a fragile bond, they are stalked by a human-shaped, mind-warping force-possibly alien, possibly demonic, deeply personal. Military operatives arrive, only to be obliterated by the phenomenon they came to contain.
Haunted by inner darkness and external threat, Miles faces a primal decision: run, surrender, or fight a force that defies human understanding. The answer lies somewhere between faith, anger, and survival.
Slayer is a genre-blending psychological thriller and grounded sci-fi horror story-where trauma meets transcendence, and survival means facing the monsters within and without.
Tone & Genre
SLAYER, “art house sci-fi”; in marketing terms, a “genre mashup” of Psychological Thriller / Survival Horror / Mysterious Sci-Fi. Prospective Rating: R (due to language, everything else is realistically in the PG-13 realm). Only two scenes of on-screen violence, some dripping blood effects, no gore.
Estimated Budget: $50k
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Main Characters
Miles Roost
Ex-cop, sober, dangerous, broken, seeking peace
Temperance Walker
Lost in time, religious, cryptic, fierce
Figure
Ambiguous alien presence, metaphysical, psychic, inscrutable
Director’s Statement
I love stories, big and small, but the older I get, the more I realize my favorite stories are those I find unpredictable. Even being a micro-budget production with a small cast and a small crew of Emmy-award winning industry veterans supported by aspiring young filmmakers, l’m confident in one thing: the unpredictability of Miles’ story.
Inspired by films like Coherence, The Vast Of Night, The Endless and Primer for their small scope/big story approach, entertained by the UFO/UAP/NHI (nonhuman intelligence) conspiracy theories proliferating across YouTube, and particularly fascinated by the work of Dr. Pasulka (American Cosmic), in which she correlates the unsettling similarities between historical accounts of angel and demon visitation found in the Vatican archives with today’s UFO/NHl experiencer accounts, I set to writing Slayer.
Slayer is intended to be a slower paced, haunting audio/visual experience, where atmosphere takes precedence over spectacle, where we glimpse something unexplainable, where we witness a man encounter the numinous.
Numinous: “Mysterium tremendum et fascinans”
- fearful and fascinating mystery
- terror, dread, awe
- overpowering, majestic
- feeling of “otherness”, unapproachability, attractiveness in spite of fear
Investment Funding & ROI
We’re looking for investors who love movies and want to support this particular storytelling art form.
Slayer was written with frugality in mind, the intent being to communicate ideas large in scope via a focused, tight story. Minimal cast, publicly accessible locations, atmosphere over spectacle.
30% of the film has been shot and at this time production has been paused while we seek funding.
FUNDING
Production: $50,000
Post-Production: $50,000
Total: $100,000
Key Costs
- cast and crew
- location accommodations/meals
- visual effects
- professional color grade
- professional audio mix
- music licensing
- film festival submission fees
RETURN ON INVESTMENT:
Investors are paid out of first monies received up to 120% of their initial investment.
The production company and investors then split any further profits 70/30 (70% to Witness Pictures, 30% to investors).
ON-SCREEN CREDIT:
$5k investment: Associate Producer
$10k investment: Producer
$25k+ investment: Executive Producer
Tax Write-Off Donations
We have partnered with the filmmaker’s non-profit From The Heart Productions. They provide fiscal sponsorship for approved projects and Slayer has qualified. From The Heart accepts donation payments, provides all tax documents that will allow donors to write off their donation on their federal tax returns and pays out to the production the donation amount minus their 6% administration fee.
Marketing & Sales Strategy
Active Sales Routes
- Film festival submissions
- Film market attendance
- Releasing Agent
- Self-submission to streaming services
Building Awareness
- YouTube & Google Ads
- UFO/UAP podcasts
- Indy film podcasts
- Director’s YouTube channel
- Cast and crew social media