Sweater Fetish Horror Film

[sweatercrazy]

Here's the logline/synopsis of my ultra low budget horror script, "The Fetishist." One location, four characters, no special effects. The girl victims can be played by extras.

The Fetishist
Feature Length Horror

A fetishist, driven half mad by the indifference of a frigid wife, becomes a serial killer who creates replica mannequins of his victims.

A Victorian mansion, home of Rolfe and Mathilde Lindquist and their servants, Felisa the cook and Bruno the gardener. As the film opens, Rolfe, a mild-mannered, middle-aged naturalist, amateur photographer and skiing buff, is embracing a sweater-clad mannequin in his gloomy study.

Rolfe is a fetishist, and an avid member of the online forum, “Wild for Wool.”

Rolfe is married to Mathilde, an heiress. An angry truce exists between the couple. Mathilde flatly refuses to indulge Rolfe’s fetish for sweaters. She refers to him as a pervert and a sexual deviate and has banished him from the bedroom. Rolfe spends his time studying and dissecting his specimens, various animals and birds, and a rare baby woolly mammoth which he keeps in a walk-in freezer. His study is cluttered with butterfly nets, cyanide jars, butterflies pinned to cards, and insects frozen in amber.

Desperate to fulfill his sexual fantasies, Rolfe buys an expensive twin set for Felisa the cook and tries to entice her into his study. But Felisa, having been warned by Mathilde of Rolfe’s eccentricities, recoils in horror and threatens to quit her job. Utterly frustrated, Rolfe buys a mannequin which he dresses in Felisa’s twin set. He uses his store-bought sweater girl to act out his obsessive fantasies as best he can in the privacy of his study.

Mathilde, meanwhile, is having an affair with Bruno the Gardener, whose peasant-like coarseness is a refreshing change from the unwelcome attentions of her bookish and finicky husband. Rolfe, outraged, poisons Mathilde with cyanide and stashes her body in the walk-in freezer with the baby mammoth, but not before making a mold of her face with Mold Gel. He then casts a plastic head and puts the head on the mannequin.

Voila!

Encouraged now that his fantasies are becoming increasingly real, Rolfe puts cyanide in Felisa’s iced tea and makes a mold of her entire body—an exact replica which he adorns with sweaters in his “Sweater Girl Room.” He has access to Mathilde’s fortune and can now afford to indulge his every whim. He places an ad for young female photo models at the Wild for Wool forum and soon he has a room full of sweater girl mannequins and a freezer full of bodies.

But it’s not all fun and games for Rolfe. At times, when he’s alone in the Sweater Girl Room with the mannequins they seem to come alive, as if animated by the spirits of the murdered girls, and Rolfe wonders if perhaps he is going insane.

Beautiful, crafty Police Investigator Doreen Dangerfield enters the picture and a cat and mouse game begins. Armed with photos of the missing girls, she is intent on getting to the bottom of things. In their initial meeting Doreen is wearing a twin set and she notices that Rolfe is staring fixedly at her and that he is visibly excited. Drawing upon this and other clues (knitting magazines, Rolfe’s online activities, statements by Bruno the Gardener) she begins to suspect that Rolfe is both a fetishist and a murderer and sets out to trap him.

“I’m gonna to pin you to a card like a butterfly, bozo,” she mutters to herself. “You just watch me!”

Doreen catches Rolfe in the Sweater Girl Room with his pants down. The mannequins match the photos of the missing girls, and Doreen forces Rolfe to show her what’s in the freezer. It looks like the end of the line for Rolfe. But Doreen makes Rolfe an offer he can’t refuse. They will marry. Doreen will share the fortune and will be named as his sole heir. Rolfe has no choice but to comply.

A honeymoon follows at a ski lodge during which Rolfe’s sweater fantasies are at last fulfilled in the flesh. But the seemingly happy pair have a visitor—Bruno the Gardner, who kills Rolfe by impaling him with a ski pole, exactly like a butterfly on a card.

Back at the mansion, Doreen and Bruno live the good life. But Bruno is beginning to develop some odd quirks. He insists that Doreen take up knitting. He buys Doreen tons of sweaters and begs her to wear them in the bedroom. When Doreen refuses to indulge his whims, Bruno threatens to go to the police with the whole sordid story.

The solution? Murder, of course. Doreen stabs Bruno with a knitting needle and stashes his body in the freezer with the others. In the final scene Doreen sits in front of a roaring fire, knitting. A door creaks, and eerily enough, the sweater girl mannequins enter, their eyes fixed on Doreen, muttering strange words, their fluttering hands reaching for her. Doreen screams. Is she insane? If not, she soon will be

[themattjon]

So... When's it going to be available on DVD..?

[sweatercrazy]

As soon as you and some of the others here contact the heavy hitters and get some funding. I'm guessing it could be made for $100,000 - 500,000. Or, another option. Surely we have some camera operators here at the forum. A budding director? Actors? We're not talking A-list people, now. Just somebody who wants to get in front of the camera and can take it off the page. I'll provide the script. What more do we need? An old Victorian house. I've seen tons of places like that up there in Maine. What else? Oh, yeh, the budget. Well, if all these folks are willing to contribute their services (as I am) to make a kick-ass movie, we won't need much of a budget.

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