After an attack turns him half-man half-abortion, an obstetrician uses newfound abilities to exact revenge on the attackers as his inner demon threatens to become flesh and kill him.
Borto
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I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that this is some kind of anti-abortion Meredith Baxter touchie-feelie piece, but it's really not.
Regardless of your intentions, the subject of abortion is an emotional minefield. This is not a story that tip toes through a tulip field.
What is the meaning of it all? What does he come to realize by the FADE OUT about life (versus abortion), about himself that he didn't understand at the FADE IN? What do you want the audience to take away from the story? Someone once said movies are emotional delivery systems. What's the emotional experience you seek to deliver?
1) Look at the "Wordy Version" and that's the whole 'plot' (I guess), it looks like there's more to it than there is, but I'm just trying to answer questions people have had - why this, how come that, etc.
2) The demon may just be a complication, but it's part of the story, it's included so maybe somebody can help me see a way around it in order to turn this into a better performing logline.
And...
Because the demon is from his own head, a psychological side effect of his transformation, until then the demon never existed except maybe as an attachment to his own guilt as a doctor who takes lives / performs abortions.
I'm not into the whole 'Rob Zombie / the vicious killer had a traumatic childhood / a semester and a half of basic psych' thing, so emotional minefield or not, I'm not really looking to address it.