Scapegoat Pitch - Sales Treatment

A group of good friends decide to go away camping for school break like they do every year. As they have all just turned sixteen they decide to go on their own and further afield than their usual camping spot to prove their independence to their parents. After searching for a while they find a small remote village called Sorrow Falls which would be perfect as it is positioned right in the middle of a wood. They all decide that Sorrow Falls would be a suitable place to stay but little do they know that the town has interesting history. Early in the 1700’s the village was struck by a series of terrible events causing many of the villagers to be killed, every time there was an accident someone was killed a little girl would be seen skipping around outside their house the next day. This led the villagers to believe that she was the cause of the events and a demon in the form of a little girl. They locked her up in the local prison to try and stop the mysterious deaths but to no avail. In the end they resorted to burning at the steak to remove the demon. But after the burning the situation only became worse and deaths more frequent. The legend goes that the girl still haunts the woods leading deserving souls to their death. Once the three friends arrive at Sorrow Falls they go to the local market to stock up on food supplies before setting off into the woods, after talking to the locals they hear about the legend but dismiss it thinking that the local tales are only trying to scare them off and continue on their journey into the woods. A few nights pass in the woods and all is going well until the third night when one of them goes mysteriously missing. They wake up in the morning to find he is gone and in a mad panic decide to rush back to the village to get help. After finding out none of their phones have signal and they can’t find their way back to the village they head back to camp for the night. After trekking for hours on exactly the right compass bearings they finial come to the conclusion, although none of them want to admit it that they are lost. They spend the night terrified in the woods hearing strange noises and screams until it becomes too unbearable and they decide to run. Whilst running they get split up and one by one they are brutally murdered by a mysterious force inhabiting the woods. Each of them discover the true mystery of the woods just before they face their fate.