Ultiminio Vega

NATURE OF THE BEAST A life of destitute becomes Lucille's least of worries when she realizes a demon is infatuated with her little sister. Can they escape a culture of poverty or be consumed by the powers of evil? After MOTHER (20-30) gives birth to SISTER, she is displeased with having yet another girl. This draws an evil spirit that LUCILLE (3) stares down while in her playpen. DAD (30s) finally arrives and shows his dissatisfaction with having another girl by not being present at her naming. Sister’s identity is never established further attracting the DEMON, a disproportionate, porous-face hermaphrodite. Lucille (6) and Sister (3) are visited by ANGELIC OLE MAN (60s) who keeps them from witnessing their Mother’s suicide after she discovers Dad’s infidelity. Puking drunk, Dad is holed up in the bathroom and commands his daughters to use the restroom outside in the cold dark night. Sister realizes, “My daddy don’t love me.” Demon makes a friendly offering which Sister considers. Lucille (15) and Sister (12) are left to fend for themselves and wish to live in town above the grocery store where they’ll always be warm and have food. Dad spends his time with FALA, the Native American girl he cheated with leaving his daughters to grow closer with their neighbors, the SWITHINS. While swimming at a pond with local children, one GIRL drowns after being targeted by Demon. This leads Lucille to get involved with INNIS (16) leaving Sister feeling neglected. Demon has always been lurking in the background but now it offers Sister knowledge, power, and acceptance. Sister demonstrates her new-found knowledge by ridding Fala’s ranch of a rat infestation in a zombie-rat apocalypse. As Lucille’s relationship with Innis intensifies, so does Sister’s with Demon to the point where she and It are indistinguishable. It becomes too much for Lucille to bare after Demon’s perverted influence compels Sister’s actions. Lucille seeks help from their church-going neighbor MARGARET (40s) who fears an evil spirit might’ve attached itself to Sister. They take her to a PRIEST, but Demon isn’t having it. Sister demands to be taken to her daddy. While the Swithins go to the bar where Dad and Fala drink, Lucille, Innis, and Sister wait in a diner. Innis’s younger BROTHER has an argument with Sister making her Demon scare everyone around them. Sister leaves the dinner. Lucille and Innis follow but they must split up to find her. Innis goes to the bar to find his parents. Lucille finds Sister wandering through a dark alley. As she approaches, Sister turns around but it’s actually Demon. Reeling in terror, Lucille backs into BUSINESS MAN who had spotted her in the diner. Lucille is knocked unconscious. Margaret breaks the news to Innis the next day; Lucille is dead. He is broken inside. Angelic Ole Man visits Sister (19) at her job. She is a voluptuous, trashy waitress whose relationship with her Dad has crossed all lines of decency. Ole Man’s presence influences Sister to leave her incestuous lifestyle. She visits Innis (23) who is now a middle-school teacher with pedophilic tendencies and emboldens him to do what makes him happy. Sister begs Fala to help her escape from her perverted Dad and asks if she can stay with her parents at their ranch which Fala accepts. That night, Sister unleashes Demon on her Dad and makes him pay for the causalities of his transgressions. Fala’s dad is a SHAMAN allowing him to get a glimpse of Demon who follows Sister. Shaman ambushes her with a Native-American exorcism which seemingly works. Fala’s strapping younger brother, JACY (19), comes home from college. Sister and Jacy spend an entire night talking by a campfire and he convinces her to enroll at his college. At dawn, Jacy fetches a water bucket to put out the fire. As Sister turns to watch him walk away, “What do you think?” Demon steps out of the campfire. It looks like Sister’s Mother.