Post by The Fury on Oct 28, 2019 23:23:58 GMT -5
A rattling noise can be heard suddenly. The sound of squeaky worn trailer axles with tires humming against the pavement over a solid black screen. The picture fades in slowly to reveal the old Fury Studios truck. Eddie Murder drinks a redbull in the driver seat while the rest of the small crew sleep. Only one other remains awake this late hour. Monday, October 28th. Six days away from a date with Aokigahara Zombie for the Unleashed Championship at Madison Square Garden sits Tommy Crimson inside the trailer. The wide shot of The Fury flashes across the screen suddenly from a side view of the traveling truck.
Crimson sits in the very front of the long trailer near all the filming equipment. The old truck bounces as Murder presses the gas in the truck. Tommy sits in front of four screens, where he’s watched hours of tape on Zombie. The screens all show the inverted cross now with no video being fed through.
Tommy sits in his favorite chair. One made to appear like it has been wrapped with human flesh. The Ed Gein collection from Germany. The creepy nature of the chair is unsettling but Crimson simply looks off into space, lost in his own head.
Suddenly he reaches for a plastic tumbler just behind him. It is packed full of dvds and vhs tapes. Tommy opens the lid then flips through the tapes and disks inside briefly. He pulls a tape out that reads, “Madness.EXE:First Cut”.
A made for tv movie made about Crimson’s life three years prior. The movie was shot by Fury Studios in its infancy. The film was deemed too violent and offensive for television. The crudely shot film depicts Tommy Crimson’s life but this tape holds the true tale. A full police investigation with witness accounts led to this portion of the film. This first cut explains how Tommy became an orphan and why his father was executed for murder in 2017.
Crimson holds the tape in both hands. He peers down at his messy handwriting in the smeared marker. He holds it up to a vcr that sits as a base for various other players including dvd and blu ray. Tommy lines the tape up with the slot in front of the equated piece of technology with a slight pause with hesitation.
Crimson pushes the tape into the vcr. It pulls the tape on in before the four small screens come to life with a bright blue screen. “Play.”, pops up in the corner. The tape has white lines up and down the screen leading Tommy to use the tracking button to get a better overall picture. The screen pans closer before engulfing the entire screen.
October 30th, 1992
10:22 p.m.
Detroit, MI
The date slowly fades in. The names of the stars of the film scroll at the bottom. Street lights illuminate the area as do fires in barrels. A house comes into focus. The street light reveals the house to be condemned by the city. Notices plastered all over the front of the house. The windows have been boarded up and the door locked up tight to the outside eye. A light snow begins to fall while Detroit lingers in the most dangerous night of the year in this city.
The house sits quiet but the camera pans closer and closer. The shot appears to go right through a crack in the wall to end up inside. A man with a solid red beard stands in front of a mirror wearing a wig and dress. Red lipstick smeared all around his mouth.
This man is an actor playing the part of Tommy Crimson’s infamous father, Thomas Sr. A little boy comes into focus sitting in the corner. He has bright long red hair and plays in the dirty floor. Needles and burned spoons litter the floor. The little boy plays with one like its a spaceship going into orbit. The six year old being portrayed here in Tommy Crimson.
A pregnant woman stumbles into the shot with a forehead wrinkled with anger.
“Where's my shit, Tom!?” The woman screams.
The woman breathes heavy while Tom Sr. continues to peer into a mirror to paste lipstick around his mouth. So jealous of his wife’s ability to bear children when he himself as a man will never. Voices in Tom’s head reverberate with thoughts of killing them all. The woman is little Tommy’s nine month pregnant mother, Loretta.
Tom Sr. finally swings around to face his wife. She rolls her eyes at his wig and dress which enrages the crossdresser even further. Little Tommy plays with the needle on the floor watching on. Tom Senior is a wrestler at Motor City Wrestling in downtown Detroit. A crossdressing clown character that Crimson gets bullied in school about. When he attends at all, that is.
Tom hands Loretta a small baggy. She takes it up quickly and they both pick up dirty burnt spoons out of the floor. A baby can be heard crying in the background, Tommy’s little brother, River. They all ignore him until he stops but then cook down the heroin. Tom Sr. makes decent money wrestling but refuses to use it for good. Instead, this small family squats in abandoned houses in the most dangerous side of town, where even the police ignore most calls.
Senior slaps his arm to bring up a vein before injecting himself with heroin. Little Tommy watches on in the floor briefly before going back to flying the syringe around. Loretta shoots up next as the married couple almost slouch into each other on the dirty floor.
“I should be able to bear children.” Tom Sr. belts out loud.
Loretta smiles before laughing hysterically.
“You’re a man. You may be a pussy on the outside but you got no gash for show underneath that ugly f---ing dress. Ha.” Loretta laughs right in her husbands face.
Baby River begins to cry again as both, Loretta and Senior, stand up at the same time. She mocks him for wearing a dress to wrestle in which leads this man to finally adhere to the voices.
Tom Sr. takes hold of Tommy and River’s nine month pregnant mother by the throat. Police accounts confirm this happened. Senior drives his wife into the wall in a stout stumble. The drugs weakening both but Loretta intends to fight back tonight.
She bounces against the wall only to come right at Senior! He responds by rushing at her lifting his right leg. The shot turns to slow motion as he kicks Loretta in the stomach as hard as he possibly can! The pregnant woman falls back against the wall before hitting the floor in a seated position. Little Tommy hides after the two begin fighting. They will just beat him if he gets in the way. The six year old continues to watch this unfolding scene from a closet. The door is cracked open slightly to watch.
Thomas Crimson Sr. watches on as Loretta begins to bleed from beneath her dirty night down. She feels no pain because of the heroin but looks over at Little Tommy peering out of the closet. Loretta sneers at the scared little boy before passing away. Bleeding inside has killed her and the twins she carried in her belly. Thomas Senior loses his mind after realizing what he’s done.
“There can be no evidence. Right. Right.” Senior replies over and over as if answering some voice only he can hear.
The special effects sell Crimson’s mother’s death. Thomas Senior disappeared down a hallway while Little Tommy looks on from the closet. Loretta Crimson has died but Tommy shows no emotion. Not a single tear shed. Thomas Senior comes back into view holding a car seat and a jug of gasoline.
The car seat holds Tommy Crimson’s much younger brother, River. The young baby’s hips have not formed correctly due to constantly being left in this seat for hours and even days at a time.
Thomas Senior pours gas all over the room. He dashes it on the baby only slightly before rushing to finish dousing Loretta’s corpse. Triple murder means the chair so he has no choice in his own demented mind.
Tommy watches as his father sets the house ablaze but remembers Little Tommy suddenly.
“Junior?!” Senior screams out.
“Daddy’s gotta go. I want to pour some of this super power juice on you. It will turn you into Super Batman or yeah, that. Come on out!” Crimson’s Father implores as the house burns.
The body of Loretta burns as the fire creeps closer and closer to River’s car seat. Senior picks up a nail gun lying on the floor. One he stole days ago to sell for a quick fix. Now he has other plans. The baby screams on the floor as the heat from the fire can be felt on its still sensitive skin.
Thomas Sr. pushes the front door of the house open and soon after,Tommy can hear nails shooting through the door. His father is nailing it shut which will essentially kill them all.
Tommy comes out of the closet with real purpose. He charges across the floor with no shoes. The fire brightens to reveal the boys dirty face and limbs.
“Ouch!” Crimson screams out as the nailing stops suddenly.
Little Tommy sits on the floor to pull two needles out of his right foot. Discarded by parents, who never wanted children.
Crimson looks around for anyway to escape while his father peels off into the night in a stolen car. Houses burn all the time on Halloween in this area of the city. A burning abandoned house is no big deal this time of the night with all the calls coming in at 911.
Little Tommy notices one of the boards loose on a window near the front door. He rushes over and quickly begins working the board to get it loose. The six year old is still developing but uses all his strength to break the weak board off. Crimson then quickly uses the end of the broken board to smash what little of the window he can see.
Tommy quickly puts his face up to the small opening he’s made for a breath of fresh air. Smoke fills the house. Crimson climbs up onto the windowsill and beneath the other boards. The broken glass cuts him up a bit but he notices his little brother on the floor. The flames flicker closer and closer towards the helpless child. Little Tommy decides that he can take care of himself but not River as well.
Crimson leaves his little brother on the floor to burn and slips through the window and out onto the front porch of the house. The baby can be heard inside the house screaming. Little Tommy walks off the porch with a camera directly in front of him. A smile crosses his face as the screams and burning wood fill the night air with true terror.
Blue and red flashing lights wash against the houses adjacent to the one Crimson just escaped. The police and fire department rush down the street toward the house while Tommy glares at the burning house. The screams of his brother die out as the fire engulfs the entire house. Crimson’s eyes glow as he peers up at the front door his father nailed shut. A bloody inverted cross covers the door. A symbol Crimson will later use to mark all his work came from this moment in his life. The film turns to slow motion as the emergency personnel rush in to help to surprise everyone at the response time on devil's night.
The movie stops suddenly. A camera pans away from the screen to reveal Tommy Crimson sitting at the makeshift desk watching the four screens once more.
The tape of the movie that never aired on FOX has been paused. Crimson intends on remastering the reels of the film to be released in early 2020.
The shot pans away from The Fury slowly. Crimson appears rattled from watching his past play out, reel to reel. He shakes it off quickly with a laugh as the shot continues to draw away to reveal his crew sleeping in the back of the old rusty trailer.
The camera reveals the truck again from a side angle to show it passing beneath an overpass with a sign that reads, “Detroit”. Tommy’s home for Devil’s Night.