The Skull Ring Screenplay

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When the fire whispers your name, how do you answer? Scott Nicholson’s original screenplay of his bestselling suspense novel The Skull Ring features a new, improved, and tougher Julia Stone.

Three men in her life, and choosing the wrong one could cost not only her heart but her soul.

Dr. Pamela Forrest is determined to bring Julia’s memories to the surface, hoping to heal Julia’s panic disorder. The therapist keeps returning Julia to a night twenty-three years ago when Julia was four. A night of hooded figures, strange chants, pain, and blood. The night her father disappeared from the face of the earth.

Julia rebuilds the past a piece at a time during the mind-wrenching therapy sessions. But the line between the past and the present begins to blur. Julia finds a silver skull ring that bears the name “Judas Stone.” The same ring had been worn by one of the hooded figures who scarred her both mentally and physically on that long-ago night.

Someone is leaving strange messages inside her house, even though the door is locked. Handyman Walter Triplett spends a lot of time in the woods behind her house. Her boyfriend Mitchell becomes distant and violent. Fellow reporter Rick O’Dell is investigating a ritualistic murder. And the cop who investigated her father’s disappearance has followed her to the small Appalachian town of Elkwood.

Now she has a head full of memories, but she doesn’t know which are real and which are the creations of Dr. Forrest. The shadows of Julia’s panic are growing larger and darker. And as the mystery of the ring closes in, Julia must remember or else.