Another script in the "found-footage" genre. This one's written by Nathan Brooks and Bobby Lee Darby and concerns three friends that sail into the Bermuda Triangle, recording everything as they go.
Along with an old sea Captain, the friends seek to record strange happenings. And strange it becomes. The radio goes out as well as the GPS. Lights appear in the night sky. Their video cameras catch something peering in through a porthole at them.
The Captain realizes they're soon lost. Nothing's working onboard. The sun doesn't come up when it should.
That's when a yacht appears. We realize it's the same yacht that was reported missing three weeks ago with honeymooners aboard. The Captain goes to inspect the yacht. Finds blood on the floor and sees all the clocks have stopped at 5:07.
Later a plane appears overhead. We see it's a World War II Bomber that had been reported missing from 1945.
The script has chilling moments like this throughout. However, we never learn what's watching them. The Captain goes missing with the yacht and we never learn his fate.
The friends then meet their doom one by one.
Only Zoey, the lone female, makes it out. The U.S. Coast Guard picks her up. However, she's oblivious to the fact that they look out of time and we quickly realize, they're the missing unit that disappeared in the triangle long ago.
They bring her aboard their ship and the script ends with her screaming.
All these found footage films play the same. Sure, they provide scares but they never feel like a full meal. I'm sure BERMUDA will get made and will probably make money if they keep the budget down. I liked Oren Peli's teleplay for his tv pilot THE RIVER better. That had a lot more plot to it.
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