Consequence, The

Horror

Tagline

Is it your nature to kill?

Logline

Who do you choose to be, alone in a 250 million year old desert, when you are faced by an unpredictable, savage intelligence, genetically unrelated to humans, that mirrors the violence of your own collective back at you?
Hitchcock’s “The Birds” meets Steven King’s “Cujo”. The Consequence, offers a fresh and intelligent take on fear in a haunting setting, with a never seen before antagonist, the Chacma Baboon.

Hitchcock meets Steven King. The Consequence, offers a fresh and intelligent take on fear in a haunting setting, with a never seen before antagonist.

Synopsis

Eva Haines, a passionate and headstrong American palaeontologist has been sent to the 250 million year old Karoo desert in South Africa on an assignment to find fossil evidence that could reveal pivotal information on global warming. Her daughter, Rachael (15) and son John (7) accompany her.

The town, Diehel is anything but welcoming as Eva and her family's presence start to stir the dark secrets of it’s scarred past. Eva, a scientist torn between the passion for her work and being a mother is about to uncover a secret so profound it shakes the very foundations of science and evolution. A new strain of intelligence has emerged, genetically unrelated to humans and savage in its fight for dominance. Eva and her family are caught in a primal battle of natural selection in a town whose hands are soaked in blood.