FADE IN:
EXT. MISTY FOREST – NIGHT
The gloomy forests are shrouded in fog. We can see the outlines of twisted trees as we follow a lone WOMAN in an antique gown wandering aimlessly through the mist. This is EVELYN NESBIT.
EVELYN (V.O.)
My cursed adventure began in Chateaugay Lake’s abyssal fog-bound woodland, where primal secrets slumber. I was drawn to the ancient Wendigo monsters who live there by eldritch whispers on the wind.
We push in on Evelyn’s face, seeing the blank look in her eyes as she stumbles forward, entranced.
EVELYN (V.O.) I sought prohibited knowledge of technology and sorcery in my hubris, in order to pierce the cosmic veil… and unleash forces beyond my comprehension.
INT. EVELYN’S LABORATORY – NIGHT
Evelyn is creating a strange, slightly evil MACHINE, fastening cables and tubes to the corpse of a WENDIGO.
EVELYN (V.O.) I built an unholy gadget to imbue the Wendigo with a life force not of this world, enslaving them.
The machine WHIRS and SPARKS, reanimating the beast. Evelyn gives a devilish grin.
EXT. FOREST – DAWN
A SHRIEK can be heard coming from the hazy woods. Evelyn emerges from the shadows with her pack of SHAMBLING WENDIGO ART BOTS.
EVELYN (V.O.) Through my art, I gained the ability to distort reality itself, conjuring illusions to overturn the reason of mortal minds.
MONTAGE:
– Evelyn and the Art-Bots create DISTORTED SCULPTURES.
– They paint bizarre alien LANDSCAPES.
– The art drives onlookers MAD with awe and horror.
EVELYN (V.O.) But I desired more than just creation. In my arrogance, I broke through the cosmic veil into unfathomable levels beyond time and space.
EXT. ALIEN REALM – CONTINUOUS
Evelyn is transfixed by a bizarre dreamscape.
EVELYN:
My God…it’s beyond comprehension.
Her robots approach behind her, waiting for her command.
EVELYN :
Draw this realm quickly before its mysteries escape us!
The astral vistas are quickly painted by the Wendigo Art-Bots.
EVELYN (V.O.) I’d discovered an endless source of inspiration. But I should have escaped while I still had a semblance of mortal sanity…
SMASH CUT TO:
INT. EVELYN’S LAB – NIGHT
Evelyn adds a glowing green METEORITE to a bubbling CONCOCTION.
EVELYN
To open the way, a catalyst from beyond the stars…
She drinks the potion and convulses, then DISAPPEARS with a CRACK OF ENERGY.
WIDE SHOT
Evelyn finds herself stranded alone on a NIGHTMARISH ALIEN PLANET, surrounded by monolithic ruins and insane geometry under a black starry sky.
EVELYN
(deranged)
Yes! I see it now… This world shall be my canvas!
The planet morphs in response to her gestures as she “paints” alien flora and fauna into being with sweeps of her mind.
EVELYN
Beautiful…and terrible…
We hear only SHRIEKS and GURGLING as the lifeforms emerge. PULL BACK from the planet until it is just a tiny mote, then –
SMASH CUT TO:
INT. AN INSANE ASYLUM – NIGHT
A STRAITJACKETED EVELYN rants and raves in a padded cell.
EVELYN
Let me return! I must shape the beyond!
ORDERLY (O.S)
Poor woman. Never recovered her wits after wandering into that foggy lake forest…
As Evelyn SCREAMS, we hear the faint WHIRRING sound of a Wendigo Bot outside her barred cell window.
EVELYN
(maniacal)
Have you brought visions from the abyss?! I must see!
With a CRASH we…
FADE OUT.
ROD SERLING (V.O)
Evelyn Nesbit dared to tamper with forces beyond human reckoning, breaching the fragile divide between known and unknown. Now, like countless souls who glimpsed beyond the veil, her mind wanders eternally…in THE TWILIGHT ZONE
What mysteries of Chateaugay Lake haunt you?