I first saw a shot of the Dublin mountains with suspense music.

Then a shot of a group of kids were hiking up them. They were chatting amongst themselves, having a nice time.

They come across a strange scene. My original thought is a pentagram and maybe a makeshift altar...clearly the site of some kind of magic ritual kind of thing. I could rethink the pentagram because there's loads of good material in Irish folklore for magic. I shall have to research into that.

One of the kids asks 'What is this?'. Obviously none of them know. If it was a pentagram I could have a girl talk about how pentagrams are actually representative of mother nature and that witches were vilified by patriarchal Christianity and then have one of the other kids call her a nerd for it. Maybe I could have it be a pentagram and work some more Irish folklore-magic into the story with the pentagram. Why not? I could bring modern day Wicca into it...at least some of the mythology behind it. I could bring more of a dark side to it. From what I read there is supposed to be a dark side to Wicca I think...that could be wrong. More research required.

I really have to figure out how many of them there are and who they are to each other as well -  I think for the moment I will go with there being five of them. So for now I will call them Caoimhe, Seamus, Mark and Sarah. If I'm going with the pentagram and the girl talking knowledgeably about it - that could be Caoimhe.

OMG! *AMAZING* idea for the end...basically the other kids realize that they need Caoimhe. I think it should be the one who called her 'nerd' specifically who goes to her for help. That would be his character growing. That can be Eoin. However if she's defending pentagrams in the beginning perhaps that's not so good. Perhaps I shall have her get even more disturbed/uneasy about the scene with the pentagram because she believed what she had been saying in the beginning but is now coming to doubt it due to the scene.

Basically the other kids realize that they need the passion she had and the belief in the goodness in magic to defeat the dark stuff.

I think what needs to happen next for the story progression is that one of them needs to mess with the scene of magic and that's what leads to weird, creepy shit happening to them when they go back to their normal lives.

I think figuring out how many of them there are should is very important here. Should the stuff start happening to them individually or when they are all hanging out together? It could make for some interesting drama maybe if they were all experiencing weird shit and feeling really scared but maybe didn't feel like they could talk to each other about it for fear that the others would think that they were going crazy. Perhaps there could be good comedy moments there?

One idea I had just there was dark fairies. Maybe one of the kids could be targeted by dark fairies. There could be a whole load of different kind of dark supernatural creatures out to get them. Maybe which ones go after which kid could depend on the kid and what they would be most scared of. That would suggest that there is a larger force at work behind all of it.

Another dark supernatural creature from Irish folklore that I could use would be a Banshee. They can be hags or stunningly beautiful women. She should visit/haunt one of the guys who

I've been messing about with the idea of evil leprechauns.

I just read up on Irish Mythology and found out about a demonic race called the Fomhoire. They would do perfectly. Apparently fairies and leprechauns all *belong* to the Fomhoire They are supposed to have the heads of bulls and only one leg and one arm each and these stick out of their torsos. So I was thinking that I could have their movements be like the movements of those ghouls or whatever they were from the Japanese horror movies like the Ring and the Grudge.

DARK FAIRY SCENE BRAINSTORM

Which character gets attacked by the dark fairies? I originally had it in mind to be one of the dudes. Now I'm thinking maybe Sarah because maybe she could have had a thing for fairies since she was a child. Just there I realized that she could have a fairy statue on her bedside table or dressing table for the dark fairies to push or break or something. This kind of thing has been done in a movie or movies before I think...like you hear the fairies giggling or something. Obviously this will have to be an evil giggle for the dark fairies. So you hear fairies giggling and then she almost sees them but they run in  behind furniture before she sees them fully. She maybe looks at the place where the giggling was coming from and gets slightly creeped out. She could check her laptop to see if that's where the giggling noise came from. Could the volume be turned down on the laptop? Then she could get even more freaked out. I think what they usually do in these kinds of scenes in these kinds of movies is have the girl not be too obviously freaked out to build suspense or something. I like the idea of her getting a little creeped out at first and then steadily more so...