After waking in a locked room with his terrified best friend, a brain-injured man has eight minutes to prove he is not a monster before his mind resets again. A short film script by Mike Blesch.
Brainfog is a contained psychological thriller about memory, guilt, and the terror of not being able to trust your own mind. The story follows Evan, a brain-injured man who wakes in a locked basement apartment with no memory of how he got there, only to find his closest friend restrained, terrified, and covered in signs of violence he cannot remember committing.
As the room resets around him and missing minutes vanish into blackness, Evan is forced to confront an impossible question: is he a victim, a monster, or something being shaped into both? Built around a ticking neurological countdown, Brainfog turns a single room into a psychological trap where evidence, memory, and identity become weapons.
GENRE
Contained Psychological Thriller / Horror Short
VISUAL STYLE
Dark, wet, with exposed ductwork, plastic sheeting, harsh basement lighting, fog from the vents, analog timepieces, and a grimy renovation-in-progress atmosphere.
COMPARABLES
Memento, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Black Mirror
THEMES
Memory, identity, manipulation, guilt, moral conditioning, and the fear that the self is not fixed but programmable.
PROJECT STATUS
Completed short screenplay. Designed as a contained proof-of-concept with feature expansion potential.
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