RATED 17+
INT. BACKSTAGE - DRESSING ROOM - NIGHT
The door to the dressing room swings shut, the quiet snick of a lock sliding into place. Five minutes until the shoot starts, yet you’re still rooted in place, watching as the script sitting on the counter flutters open. A reminder that for you, the breeze is never just the breeze. Just like how you feel an overlapping exhale, another presence that matches you breath for breath, you're never alone.
A rhythmic tapping to the left, the carpet muffling the sound of footsteps you know would be echoing otherwise. You’re awake, yet you feel anything but. A living nightmare, your horror electrifying your pulse.
“Stop,” you whisper, but the dead never listen, do they?
The cold settles over you like being submerged underwater. Stop. It punches through the cavern of your chest, holding you witness to the moment. Stop. Cigarette smoke lies thick on your tongue, cherry chapstick and the acidic tang of alcohol bitter on your lips. The last moments, the sheer desperation of someone trying to hold on a moment longer, fighting against a slowing heartbeat. You echo the sentiment: I am alive I am alive I am alive—
“They’re ready for you on set!”
SUMMARY.
Once a promising young actor, you fell from grace in a fiery blaze that left your name lying in the mud, and your reputation in tatters.
You'd love nothing more than to fade into the background, but the death of your reclusive mentor, a former Hollywood starlet and famed author, thrusts you back into the limelight. A tangled web of secrets and corruption is hiding behind a veil of glitz and glamour, and you're caught in the center of it.
Someone's ghost is begging you to bring them to justice. The public wants to tear you apart. Everyone is lying to you. The walls you built up to protect yourself are starting to fall, and at the end of the day you're not even sure if you can trust yourself.
CUT THE LIGHTS is rated 17+ for themes such as violence, strong language, substance use, and sexual content.
