WUURM

SHORT FILM PITCH

We suddenly cut in from black.

An out of focus, green and white tiled room is shown on screen.
We see a human shape emerge clearer into the foreground.

Tilted down, from an upward angle; BARRY steps into focus, as his
forehead and shoulders fill the screen, as he pants and sweats
profusely.

We hear the WUURM audibly laughing.

WUURM
Ahahaha!
Look at you! You worthless human boil!

Thunder claps and BARRY falls to his knees and winces over the toilet
bowl in pain.

BARRY
Oh not tonight, please not tonight!

We cut to a wide shot of the room. CALUM steps into the shot in a TV
presenter fashion and begins explaining who Barry is.

CALUM
This is BARRY.
BARRY is a middle class English man on the wrong side of 50, who has
somehow, somewhere, picked up a nasty, evil tapeworm parasite.

THUNDER CLAPS as Barry winces again in pain onto the floor in the
background and screams.

BARRY
Arrrrghhhhh!

We cut to a different angle of the room. CHRIS then appears into the
frame and explains what’s going on.

CHRIS
 With his wife Linda’s ear pressed firmly against the bathroom door,
BARRY uses self denial and white lies to divert her attention and hide
the fact that he’s hosting a disgusting parasite, hellbent on
gaslighting him into submission.

We cut to Barry popping up into the frame, just like in the movie
script.
Linda’s concerned, British voice chimes through the door off-screen.

LINDA
BARRY, sweetheart, are you ok in there?
I’m going to call doctor Malcom!

BARRY
I don’t need to see that old quack Linda, I just ate a bad vegetable
Samosa!

BARRY recoils in pain again as Thunder claps.

The camera then cuts away to a second environment.

Chris’ Summerhouse which is lit green, has the worm prototypes on show
and also the framed WUURM poster in the background. CALUM is standing
in the foreground.

CALUM
Our entire film is set in a middle class, seaside inspired bathroom.
With various flashbacks and cutaways to other toilet scenarios - we
start to understand how much of a stress this is causing to Barry’s
life.

We cut to some footage we have already shot with Geoff for the
cutaways.

We then cut back to CHRIS in the same environment as the previous

presentation sequence, but slightly shifted positioning.

CHRIS
The overall arc, is that this parasite wants to live in BARRY For the
rest of his life. Acting as a physical manifestation of that self-
doubting voice in the back of your mind, that tells you you’re not
good enough.
We cut back to BARRY in the toilet who is looking down at his stomach.

WUURM
Ooh, they’re talking about us BARRY!

BARRY (to his stomach)

SHUT UP!

CALUM
BARRY and the WUURM ultimately end up locked into a battle to the
death, filled with laughs, B-movie style action and breakable set
pieces.
As a love letter to the likes of B-Movie classics, such as EVIL DEAD
II and early Peter Jackson movies; we also are injecting a 90’s
British sitcom TV personality into our BARRY character. Quite simply
put short - a loser who’s best years are long gone and his happiness
is in the past.

CHRIS
We want the film to be filled with huge CGI robots, smashing each
other in the face like my favorite film Tra...

CALUM enters the frame and slaps Chris round the face.

CALUM
We’re trying to get funding!

The scene resets.

CHRIS
The film will be shot and directed under my current video production
company, DOGBRAIN VIDEOS - which creates B-Movie inspired music videos
and promotional content for bands, businesses and anyone who shares
the same love for this weird and strange genre.
On screen now, are a few clips from our past projects, so you can
gauge the style of cinematography and production elements that will be
making their way into our film.

After the clips end, we cut to BARRY sitting on the toilet speaking
directly to the camera.
 BARRY
Oh for Christ sakes get on with it, I need to go to the hospital!

CHRIS and CALUM are now both on screen together Ant and Dec style, at
the summerhouse to sign off and lead out with an outro.

CALUM
What we’re ultimately looking for from funding, is to really find our
people. We want to make this with the same sort of people who share
the same love for this sort of thing as me and Chris do.

CHRIS
We are mainly going to use the budget to help build the set, worm
puppet, pay crew fairly and make sure we can get in some great talent
to animate something worthy of those iconic stop motion action scenes
from the 70’s.

CALUM
We’ve already shot a few cutaway scenes of Geoff as Barry, and have
been using a prototype worm which was reversed engineered from a
kermit the frog puppet. Yes. Really.

Cut away to kermit the frog puppet development photos.

Cut back to BARRY sitting on the toilet, coiled up.

BARRY (stressed, to camera)

You can find more information at our website.
Concept art, more about me and those bastard film makers who won’t end
this stupid pitch video!

Cut back to CALUM and CHRIS at the summerhouse.

CALUM
You did this to yourself, BARRY.

CHRIS
Thanks for watching our pitch video and we hope to find our people,
who get what we’re trying to do and want to invest in something that’s
going to be extremely fun and awesome to be a part of.

CALUM
And if you’re having sausages for dinner tonight, you might want to
think twice.
 Cut to BARRY screaming in anger.
Cut to WUURM LOGO over black with cool 70s horror synth music.