Totem (2017) — Screenplay
After a malevolent spirit targets her kin, a teen girl takes desperate action to save her family from annihilation.
- Written by
- Evan Dickson
- Genre
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Length
- 89 pages
This script builds dread methodically, using the family home as a pressure cooker where every relationship frays under supernatural threat. Study how Dickson crafts a slow-burn reveal of the entity's rules and the protagonist's moral compromises, keeping the horror grounded in emotional stakes rather than cheap scares.
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