Duncan Putney

In 1765, Col. Sir Estes Henderson’s published his “Memoirs on the War in America” in London. In it, he mentions a place in the wilds of Vermont where “whispers are more terrifying than a scream, and shadows even more so that the things which cast them.”

In 1759, Henderson sends a group of colonial Rangers (America’s first Special Force), under the temporary command of a British officer travel deep into enemy territory to destroy a supply of French muskets destined for Indian raiding parties. After a successful raid, their line of retreat takes the group into an uncharted area of the Green Mountains where the Indians do not go, where they say the sun will not shine, and the dead do not stay dead.

A young colonial lieutenant must take command from their mad British commander who is bent on revenge, and lead what is left of his men on a fifty mile torch lit dash out of this place the Indians call “Suagothel.” Just when they think that they are safely across the Connecticut River in the fortified settlement of Charlestown, New Hampshire, they find themselves surrounded by the night, the shadows and the whispers joined the ghosts of their recently lost comrades.

Now that they can no longer run, they must fight to save themselves and the settlers they have endangered. Candles, torches and watch fires can only keep the shadows at bay as the surviving rangers must somehow find the secret to killing their dead captain who caries the severed head of a Abenaki medicine woman, their lost comrades and all those who have ever been lost in Suagothel.

Status: Finished Script, 94 pages




		An original horror screenplay “SUAGOTHEL” By Duncan Bruce Putney (Inspired by actual historic events.) WGA #I29625 In 1765, Col. Sir Estes Henderson’s published his “Memoirs on the War in America” in London. In it, he mentions a place in the wilds of Vermont where “whispers are more terrifying than a scream, and shadows even more so that the things which cast them.” In 1759, Henderson sends a group of colonial Rangers (America’s first Special Force), under the temporary command of a British officer travel deep into enemy territory to destroy a supply of French muskets destined for Indian raiding parties. After a successful raid, their line of retreat takes the group into an uncharted area of the Green Mountains where the Indians do not go, where they say the sun will not shine, and the dead do not stay dead. A young colonial lieutenant must take command from their mad British commander who is bent on revenge, and lead what is left of his men on a fifty mile torch lit dash out of this place the Indians call “Suagothel.” Just when they think that they are safely across the Connecticut River in the fortified settlement of Charlestown, New Hampshire, they find themselves surrounded by the night, the shadows and the whispers joined the ghosts of their recently lost comrades. Now that they can no longer run, they must fight to save themselves and the settlers they have endangered. Candles, torches and watch fires can only keep the shadows at bay as the surviving rangers must somehow find the secret to killing their dead captain who caries the severed head of a Abenaki medicine woman, their lost comrades and all those who have ever been lost in Suagothel. Status: Finished Script, 94 pages

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