James B Brandt

THAT’S NOT MY MOTHER

By

James B Brandt

Genre: Horror/Occult

Logline:  A young Sorceress, estranged from her heritage, accidently invokes the demon Belphegor, forcing her retired demon-hunting father to face down both external and internal demons.

Synopsis: A young girl - Dominique - wants to make contact with her dead mother. She approaches a Goth stripper reputed to be an expert at conducting séances but when they reach out to her mother, the demon Belphegor, in the guise of a beautiful young woman, materializes.

Things turn much worse when Dominique learns that her family history isn't as pristine as her sheltered life had led her to believe. Marc - her father - arrives at the last second and prevents Belphegor in his male form from having a little girl snack. A fight ensues but Belphegor has another agenda and flees when the fight turns against him, leaving a trail of bodies as he seeks a weak spot between the dimensions.

Marc pulls together a small crew to go after Belphegor. He is finally forced to reveal the family heritage to Dominique and to take up once again the mantel of demon-hunter, a vocation that cost Dominique's mother her life and sent Marc into an emotional tail-spine for twenty years.

As Belphegor nears his goal, he grabs a streetwalker as a final sacrifice to open an inter-dimensional portal between Earth and Hell. This devilish demon desires dastardly devastation through deployment of his legions of demons on an unsuspecting humanity. But he already has more power than normal for a demon in this plane and the tracking demon hunters are faced with a variety of paranormal opponents as their number dwindle.

After a fantastic, magical fight, Marc forces Belphegor back to Hell but only after he overcomes his own self-doubts and Dominique comes to grips with that reality of her new life and a world that is not as simple as Newton envisioned.