Edgar Allan Poe would be our inspiration.  He did a pretty good job of frightening his audience without gallons of spewing blood.

We'd spend hours on end taking pictures and shooting video inside several different mausoleums.  At one point we even considered spending the night ourselves, just as we'd make our lead character, Julie, suffer.

But noooo!  Julie had way more nerve than we did.  Besides, why spend the night in a mausoleum just to find out it might not be scary.  NOT!

With a box full of ideas, notes, pencils and paper, Tom and I headed up the coast to Santa Barbara to write the story.  We'd have to get away from Los Angeles and all of its distractions in order to focus on the screenplay.  Besides, a good friend of ours managed a small motel right on the beach where we could stay for next to nothing.  And the ocean, home to creatures with teeth, would definitely not be a distraction.

Three days later we were headed back to Los Angeles with a hundred and fifty page, hand written first draft screenplay entitled "Mausoleum".

It would be two more drafts, a lot of "Not bad, but we're not interested" responses before we decided to try something different.  We would produce a slide show complete with music to better illustrate the story.

"One Dark Night"

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