Mori, your ep sounds cool and its odd, because the first thing I thought of was the wendigo when you mentioned the guy coming back from the woods possibly posessed. As a kid I always found the wendigo myths the creepiest(I think it was the vagueness of the monster-it could ultimately be almost anything), and for a long time there was never a good representation on film. Since we have had Larry Fessenden's takes(he seems kind of obsessed since both Wendigo and The Last Winter offered up different interpretations with his same monster design)and there was the goofy sort of mythology that Ravenous used, but it was more black comedy than horror. Anyway, all that to say that I will be definitely tuning into what you have conjured provided NBC airs it and they actually play it in the correct timeslot. It was like a monumental feat to catch that episode of MOFSF that Harlan Ellison/Jonathan Frakes did.

For the most part, the Masters of Horror series only underlined why a lot of these guys had become sidelined, and only worked sporadically for a decade or more. Given a free hand with the gore by Showtime, they traded bloody effects for the genuine horror that the series demanded; cheap sensationalism for tight plotting and character, and to me, it seemed that the whole thing was aimed squarely at the readership of Fangoria magazine.

There isn’t anything wrong with blood and gore; you’ve just got to earn the splatter moment, guys!

The producers of this new series should really think about the great shock moments from anthology shows in the past, the Twilight Zones, the Outer Limits, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents and ask what it was that made them great? It was their power to engage you, to creep you out, not just to gross you out.

This Wildhog isn't just a Hog. It's made up of several parts of other animals- These replacement parts cover previous damaged flesh. No doubt the beast the Herder encountered is the legend long since spoken around that area. A Witch's Pig name Harold.

(That sounds like your story and then I'd guess that later on the Hog comes back for the man and his family. And it's likely taking place in anywhere from 30 to 50 years or more back from now)

I talked to you in the Chatroom here about a story my Grams told me, about a pig named Witches Pig named "Harold" who sought revenge. I told you that I was adapting it into a screenplay and that I also found the story it was based on. Called Raw Head & Bloody Bones. I told you and the other in that chat That I would call my take on the tale Witch Pig's Revenge, and then I proceeded to post in that chatroom the following plot/treatment \/ which I also emailed to myself.

Witch Pigs Revenge. 200 years ago a hunter from a small village got lost in the woods for several days. After being lost for such a long time he noticed some smoke drifting through the tops of the trees. He followed the smoke and it lead to a cabin. It was coming from the cabins chimney place. The exterior of the cabin is lined with animal pelts, rope strung bottles hung from the roof and under the awning they are full of flesh based animal parts, eyes and heads and paws and tails and tounges. A few dozen creep wind chimes made with squirrel, possum frog and fox bone hang from tree surrounding the cabin they make errie whistling noises. In the back is a pig pen the words "HAROLD" are craved into the sign on the gate.

The hunter reluctantly knocks on the cabins doors.

A decrepit ugly old hag answers.

The hunter tells her that he has lost his way and that he is hungry and wonders if she can spare him food and show him how to return to his village.

She lets him inside and offers him a drink. She places a few rabbits and some cabbage into a pot she puts it over the fire.

Harold comes storming down the stairs.

Standing 11 feet tall on his hind legs. The beast stares at The Hunter. The beast turns his attention to the old woman.

HAROLD: "I hope you made enough for me"

The hunter nearly pisses himself.

Harold grabs a chair, he sits down.

Hunter: "The Hog, it's talking.."

Old Woman: "Yes, Harold can talk"

Hunter: "It walks like a man"

Old Woman: "Yes, Harold walks like Us"

Old woman: "Heres your rabbit stew, eat while it's hot..."

Hunter: "Your a witch!"

Old Woman: "We have a smart one here...Hehehe. Yes I'm a witch and this is my friend Harold. He was a normal Pig once, but he kept sifting through my trash. He ate all my left over potions and soon he was walking and talking and thinking just like you and I. I used to live in the same village you came from. That town drove me and my family away ages ago... They didn't take a liking to our beliefs and practices, and that's why I have poisoned you dear."

Hunter: "poisoned....." The hunter jumps Harold is behind the hunter lickity split holding a knife to his throat. Harold: "You better sit down and finish you meal or I'll make you mine. This is happen much to often now why do they always come here?" Old Woman. "Harold put down the knife. Listen to me The poison has an antidote. I will give it to you before you leave as well as instructions to find your way back to your village. Theres a catch. The antidote will make you forget the a days worth of memory. So if you take it before you find you way back you'll be lost again. You must take it after you know where you are. After you take it you will remember none of this. Do you understand?" Hunter: "Yes" Old Woman: "Good. You have to understand. I don't bother anyone and neither does Harold. We don't want trouble." The Old woman tells the hunter the way back home through song. She makes him recite it several times. She places the antidote in a glass jar. and sends him off. The hunter sings the song as he wanders back taking note of each landmark that resembles the words in the song. The hunter is nearly home when the poison starts to take affect. The hunter falls over a rock breaking the jar containing the antidote. it pours into the ground below him. The hunter starts to cry he screams for help.. The villagers hear his cries. They run out to him. He tells them of the witch and the pig and the poison and the antidote and the song to get out, and then his flesh turns black under the rising moon and he dies. The villagers grabs torches and pitchforks and rope. They mount their horses and head out to the woods singing the song to find they're way. They storm the cabin. Harold fights them, killing one of them outright. They shoot him in the eye. He plucks the dead villagers eye out and he races off into the woods. They tie the old woman up by her hands and set her cabin on fire. They drag the poor woman through the woods by horse she howls like a choked cat. They arrive back in the town and head towards the church. The cobble stone road tears the already raw back of the witch wide open leaving bloody trail. She has passed out from the pain. They throw a troft of horse urine in her face waking her up. They toss a length of rope over the Weeping Willow tree facing the church. They hang her. Harold see this from the edge of the wood. Where his pig eye was removed now rest the human eye he took. A week goes by and the hunters score the woods looking for Harold. They do not find him The following week on the same day that the Witch was hung the town wakes up to find all of their cattle set on fire and slaughtered. One of them sees Harold and he shots at Harold hitting him in the leg. The spend the next few days looking for Harold in the woods. They do not find him. Harold attacks again this time he destroys the villages crops. Another person see him he notices that Harold replaced his leg with the leg of a Deer. He shoots Harold and hits him in the rear destroying Harold's tail. The villagers comb the woods looking for Harold. but they do not find him they decide to set the woods on fire. Hoping it will drive Harold out It doesn't work.. A few night later the villagers wake up to find all of their children and babies missing. Some dead babies are seen hanging from the tree were they hung the old witch. The villagers go to the edge of the woods They plead with Harold to return the rest of the children unharmed. They promise to do anything and leave him be. Harold screams back from the woods. Harold responds from deep in the woods. Cut down the tree where you hung my mother and place a monument there for her bury her remains under I. Burn down your church and never build on that land again. Or I will come back too destroy you all.

The villages cut down the tree they bury the witches remains there. They place a stone plaque that reads Loving Mother of the Hog-Scald Hollow. in the trees place and they burn down the church.

The following night the children run out of the woods screaming for their parents.

They tell them about the kind pig who played games with them and had a human eye a deers leg an a coons tail.

200 years pass and the legend is believed to be a fairy tale. Teens desecrate the area and dig up the witches remains wondering if the tale be true.

Harold returns with a vengeance.

This Wildhog isn't just a Hog. It's made up of several parts of other animals- These replacement parts cover previous damaged flesh. No doubt the Beast the Herder encountered is the legend long since spoken around that area. A Witch's Pig name Harold.

(That sounds like your story and then I'd guess that later on the Hog comes back for the man and his family. And it's more than likely taking place 30 to 50 years or more back from now)

I talked to you in the Chatroom about a story my Grams told me, about a Witches Pig named "Harold" who sought revenge.

I told you that I was adapting it into a screenplay and that I also found the story it was based on the net- gave you the link to it as well. The original story is called "Raw Head & Bloody Bones."

I told you and the others in that chatroom, that I would call my take on the tale "Witch Pig's Revenge" and then I proceeded too post in that chatroom the following plot/treatment \/ which I also emailed to myself.

Witch Pigs Revenge. 200 years ago a hunter from a small village got lost in the woods for several days. After being lost for such a long time he noticed some smoke drifting through the tops of the trees. He followed the smoke and it lead to a cabin. It was coming from the cabins chimney place. The exterior of the cabin is lined with animal pelts, rope strung bottles hang from the roof and under the awning- they are full of flesh based animal parts, eyes, and heads, and paws and tails, and tounges. A few dozen creepy wind chimes made with squirrel, possum frog and fox bone hang from tree surrounding the cabin- they make errie whistling noises. In the back is a pig pen the words "HAROLD" are carved into the sign on the gate.

The hunter reluctantly knocks on the cabins doors.

A decrepit ugly old hag answers.

The hunter tells her that he has lost his way and that he is hungry and wonders if she can spare him food and show him how to return to his village.

She lets him inside and offers him a drink. She places a few rabbits and some cabbage into a pot she puts it over the fire.

Harold comes storming down the stairs.

Standing 11 feet tall on his hind legs. The beast stares at The Hunter. The beast turns his attention to the old woman.

HAROLD: "I hope you made enough for me"

The hunter nearly pisses himself.

Harold grabs a chair, he sits down.

Hunter: "The Hog, it's talking.."

Old Woman: "Yes, Harold can talk"

Hunter: "It walks like a man"

Old Woman: "Yes, Harold walks like Us"

Old woman: "Heres your rabbit stew, eat while it's hot..."

Hunter: "Your a witch!"

Old Woman: "We have a smart one here...Hehehe. Yes I'm a witch and this is my friend Harold. He was a normal Pig once, but he kept sifting through my trash. He ate all my left over potions and soon he was walking and talking and thinking just like you and I. I used to live in the same village you came from. That town drove me and my family away ages ago... They didn't take a liking to our beliefs and practices, and that's why I have poisoned you dear."

Hunter: "poisoned....."

The hunter jumps up, Harold is behind the hunter lickity split holding a knife to his throat.

Harold: "You better sit down and finish you meal or I'll make you mine. This is happening much to often now, why do they always come here?"

Old Woman. "Harold put down the knife. Listen to me The poison has an antidote. I will give it to you before you leave as well as instructions to find your way back to your village. Theres a catch. The antidote will make you forget the a days worth of memory. So if you take it before you find your way back you'll be lost again. You must take it after you know where you are. After you take it you will remember none of this. Do you understand?"

Hunter: "Yes"

Old Woman: "Good. You have to understand. I don't bother anyone and neither does Harold. We don't want trouble."

The Old woman tells the hunter the way back home through song. She makes him recite it several times. She places the antidote in a glass jar. and sends him off.

The hunter sings the song as he wanders back taking note of each landmark that resembles the words in the song.

The hunter is nearly home when the poison starts to take affect. The hunter falls over a rock breaking the jar containing the antidote. it pours into the ground below him.

The hunter starts to cry he screams for help.. The villagers hear his cries.

They run out too him. He tells them of the witch and the pig and the poison and the antidote and the song too get out, and then his flesh turns black under the rising moon and he dies.

The villagers grabs torches and pitchforks and rope. They mount their horses and head out to the woods singing the song to find they're way.

They storm the cabin. Harold fights them, killing one of them outright. They shoot him in the eye. He plucks the dead villagers eye out, and he races off into the woods.

They tie the old woman up by her hands and set her cabin on fire. They drag the poor woman through the woods by horse, she howls like a choked cat. They arrive back in the town and head towards the church. The cobble stone road tears the already raw back of the witch wide open leaving a bloody trail. She has passed out from the pain.

They throw a pail of horse urine in her face waking her up.

They toss a length of rope over the Weeping Willow tree facing the church.

They hang her. Harold see this from the edge of the woods. Where his pig eye was removed now rest the human eye he took.

A week goes by and the hunters scour the woods looking for Harold. They do not find him

The following week on the same day that the Witch was hung the town wakes up to find all of their cattle set on fire and slaughtered.

One of them sees Harold, he shots at Harold hitting him in the leg.

They spend the next few days looking for Harold in the woods.

They do not find him.

Harold attacks again. This time he destroys the villages crops. Another person see him, he notices that Harold replaced his leg with the leg of a Deer.

He shoots Harold and hits him in the rear destroying Harold's tail.

The villagers comb the woods looking for Harold. but they do not find him. They decide to set the woods on fire. Hoping it will drive Harold out

It doesn't work..

A few night later the villagers wake up to find all of their children and babies missing.

Some dead babies are seen hanging from the tree were they hung the old witch.

The villagers go to the edge of the woods. They plead with Harold to return the rest of the children unharmed. They promise too do anything and leave him be. Harold Booming voice responds from deep in the woods.

"Cut down the tree where you hung my Mother, and place a monument there for her, bury her remains under it. Burn down your church and never build on that land again. Or I will come back too destroy you all"

The villagers cut down the tree, they bury the witches remains there. They place a stone plaque that reads "Loving Mother of The Hog-Scald Hollow" in the trees place. They burn down the church.

The following night the children run out of the woods screaming for their parents.

They tell them about the kind pig who played games with them and had a human eye, a deers leg, and a coons tail.

200 years pass and the legend is believed to be a fairy tale.

Teens desecrate the area and dig up the witches remains, wondering if the tale be true.

Harold returns with a vengeance.

Wiki on Wendigo sounds like this guys gonna look pretty fucking gruesome as he loses the battle with the possession, and it explains the name "Skin and Bones" which I misread and thought-Oh great here comes a Rawhead and Bloody Bones adapt from a guy I was talking to about my attempt at it- Well Fuckkkkkk Me!

My bad, and Apologies. Fuck the wiki has my interest peaked I saw another Wendigo flick a few yeas back involving some guy getting shot while sledding with his son. Was pretty cool.

Say what you will about Malone, but I think McKee is a really good filmmaker. "Sick Girl" is my favorite episode of the series, and I'd trade a million hacky Saw films for one movie like May. I'll admit that The Woods and Roman, though not actually directed by McKee, are nothing to write home about, but May is such a wonderful movie. The fact that it was made feels like a small miracle.

Oh, and I've only seen Saw II, but based on that, there's no way Bousman is more of a "Master..." than McKee. Seriously, the Saw series just needs to stop. Now.