Plastic - in Development!

by Julia Camara

A horrific comedy

Logline: A former supermodel is literally transformed into a life size plastic doll and discovers the true cost of perfection.

Synopsis: To CHERYL PEAK, 35, nothing is more important than her looks. She is the face and mind behind the Peak Skin Care System. Exercising is her religion, plastic surgery her addiction. She feels like she’s losing the race against time. Cheryl is also in love with the CHERRY POP DOLL. She’s a variation of a Barbie doll, blonde, skinny and always smiling. Cheryl wishes she could be just like her.

After Cheryl has an allergic reaction and the footage of her swollen face appears on the news, she believes she’s ruined. Her desperation grows as she cries on her husband’s shoulder, SHANE PEAK, 30s, personal trainer of the stars.

In an attempt to save her public image and business, Cheryl visits a plastic surgeon. He refuses to work on her claiming she’s had too many procedures already. Desperate, Cheryl goes see a new cutting edge surgeon. He has no problem working on anybody. Cheryl’s problems soon seem to be over when she consents to the surgery and wakes up several hours later transformed into a LIFE-SIZE CHERRY POP DOLL.

Cheryl is finally happy with her looks. She’s everything she always wanted to be, and soon, she becomes a star. She’s on the cover of the tabloids and on the news as everyone speculates if she’s a publicity stunt or real. She receives an amazing offer from the makers of the Cherry Pop Doll to become their spokesperson.

As Cheryl tries to adapt to her ever-changing new body, Shane’s doubts grow everyday about his wife’s sanity. Cheryl faces a lot of new challenges as her body starts to change even more as when she first had the procedure. As her joints stiffen, her anatomy changes, and her nylon hair melts, Cheryl’s life transforms into a living nightmare.

© 2007 Julia Camara

The Tempter - Optioned!

by Julia Camara

In 2007 “The Tempter” was named a finalist on the 13th cycle of the WriteMovies.Com competition and a semi-finalist in the 2007 Shriekfest Screenplay Competition.



Genre: Thriller

Logline: A psychiatrist makes a risky deal with the Devil to have her dead sister resurrected. She agrees to kill her sister's assassin, but when the Devil reveals who the killer is, she starts to question the deal.

Synopsis: What would you do to have a deceased loved one back? Debra, a skeptical psychiatrist, didn't think she would ever have to answer that question. After the death of her sister, a grieving Debra becomes the perfect target for John, the devil himself. John makes Debra a very unusual offer. To have her sister back, Debra will have to kill the man who murdered her sister. Now, Debra has to decide if having her sister Susan back is worth killing someone. Especially if that someone is Susan's grieving husband, Alex.

John tells Debra she has exactly six days to do so or Susan will die again. As Debra struggles with the idea and logistics of taking a human life, she starts a steamy affair with Jesse, one of her patient's son. While Susan begins having flashbacks of her murder and starts to suspect something unusual has happened to her. Debra tries as hard as she can to keep Susan in the dark about John and the deal. But as Susan's suspicions grow she investigates on her own and ends up talking to the devil herself.

Susan discovers Debra made a deal for her life and she is now determined to stop her sister from killing Alex. Determined to help Debra, Jesse decides to kill Alex for her. Only he doesn't know she has decided against killing Alex. Debra tries to stop Jesse but she is too late. Alex is shot and near dead.

As the end of the sixth day approaches, Debra follows Susan to the cemetery where she is mid-conversation with John. Susan decides to give her life to save Debra's. Unable to stop her, Debra cries over her dead sister and contemplates suicide. Debra manages to fight the temptation of ending her pain and walks away. It looks like she won, but can you ever truly defeat the devil?

© 2006 Julia Camara