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The 10th Plague
Production Country (s) Pakistan Production Company (s) -
Genre Supernatural Thriller Production Spec 6K / Color / 120 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion Q1 2022
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 650,000 USD Confirmed Financing -
Fellow Name Vivian Jonathan Patrick XAVIER
Director - Email of Director -
Producer (s) Vivian J. XAVIER Email of Producer (s) vivianjxavier@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Vivian XAVIER is a filmmaker and cinematographer with a penchant for dark, raw social narratives. He believes in art as a conduit for social benefit and thus aims to support and tell stories within that framework. He graduated from Florida State Film School and has been a fellow at Asian Film Academy. His work spans short films such as Pedro Pan, The Grind, Best Buds 2D and Inheritance as well as the documentaries Partnering for Power in Pakistan with GE shot for CNN and Armed With Faith shot for HBO. The 10th Plague is his debut film as a feature film writer and producer, and he intends to redistribute the quality and variety of narratives produced and exhibited in Pakistan with the realization of this film.
Logline An ambitious cop is sent to investigate mysterious murders of young boys in a picturesque valley in northern Pakistan. But the possibility of a supernatural source to these murders forces him to confront his own worldview and reconsider his blind ambition and sense of self-sacrifice.
Synopsis The mutilated body of a young boy is discovered in a pastoral forest of Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan. PERVAIZ (39), an ambitious no-nonsense assistant inspector general from the neighborhood province, is assigned to investigate this gruesome murder because of his investigative skills and high success rate. He doesn’t just follow the law, he is the law!
As the investigation moves forward, another boy is murdered in the same manner, but there are no signs of forced entry or exit in the boy’s bedroom. The parents blame a cannibalistic demon that resides deep in the forest, but Pervaiz is adamant that this is the work of a heinous individual and sets forth to apprehend the person responsible.
The trauma of losing a child with his WIFE (36) resurfaces as he warms up to a precocious young tea boy named IQBAL (12), and his paternal instincts are revealed just in time for his wife to let him know he is having a son. As more boys are murdered in the village, Pervaiz’s exploration leads him to a decrepit, suspicious shed of the local PREACHER (50) he is convinced is connected to the murders. When an earlier clue sent to the forensics lab for analysis can only be quantified as an alien substance, he is exasperatingly back to square one.
After the mythical monster murders Iqbal, an infuriated Pervaiz confronts the preacher and kills him. But then he understands that to solve the crimes and stop the murder of innocent children, including his soon-to-be- born son, he will have to face the demon and make the ultimate sacrifice.