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
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