Creating DISTORTION

DISTORTION is going to be an homage to the old Hitchcock Films of yesterday. As a Writer/Director I have idolized the Iconic Director for his phenomenal Films since I was in my early teens. I have been trying to find a story that I could create that would really hearken back to films like PSYCHO or NORTH BY NORTHWEST. His visual style is so distinctive that many directors, such as DEPALMA, VAN SANT, have been trying to recreate it over and over. Though VAN SANT has his own style as well. Finally I have come up with a storyline that reminds me of THE BIRDS, which is what I was aiming for. Take a subject, amplify it to the worst possible scenario, and make it look fantastic. The BIRDS to me was always so freaky, since we are never told why they attack, this is left out, which to me made it even the scarier. No real Motive!

DISTORTION has reasoning behind the incident, though keeping the viewer in the dark on some of the motivation, takes it to that same level.. I believe.

SHARON RICHFIELD, a renowned Psychologist has used Hypnotism in a way that many before her have tried and failed. She succeeds. She authors a book on her study, getting into the mind of a SERIAL KILLER, that booms to number one for a record number of weeks. Then one night she awakens in darkness, a house pitch black due to stormy weather, with no memory of who she is, where she is, and why there is a gun in her hand. From this point she must put her life back together to discover what happen this night and what else awaits her in the darkness. She is blown away when she discovers the body of a dead man, now paralyzed by fear.. Is she the one that ended his life or worse.. Is there someone or something else hiding in the darkness with her?

Everyone who has signed onto this project, has signed on due to the script. We know that it is fresh, unique, not been done before ( Believe it or not ) and this is what will set us apart when it plays the festivals. We have been looking for the right script to shoot as our first feature and we were on track to do a different one, AFTER DARK. In a way it is good that that fell off course. The script for that one, although interesting, definitely marketable, was something that has been done before. Though we had our twists on it, giving it the fresh appeal to those who signed on to do it. DISTORTION really is the project I want Mindworks remembered for. I want it to be what gets our name out there, if not just for the screenwriting, but for the visual style it will have. Everyone is looking forward to shooting this and getting it out there and we are literally inches from Principle photography. Just need one more cog, to fit all the pieces together, to build a good tool to make it.

David Lytle