Phoenix Forgotten Page #3

Synopsis: Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed.
Director(s): Justin Barber
Production: Cinelou Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
PG-13
Year:
2017
87 min
$3,599,570
Website
116 Views


we couldn't see it anymore.

Uh, but we still talk about that, Pony and I.

Uh, but that was off over in Salt River,

in the Salt River Reservation.

The bus definitely doesn't go that far.

That's where we're going.

Well, that's where we're

deciding if we should go,

to be more accurate.

Are you serious?

What, are you scared of sky people?

Of being taken to the spirit world

- with the Anasazi.

- Well, I kind of believed him.

Please come.

I need my producer, you know.

I think it would make

a really sick documentary.

I'll show it to colleges or... somebody.

How do we get there?

That's for me.

Okay. Mark!

- Mrs. Bishop.

- I haven't seen you in so long.

- I know, how are you?

- Good, how are you?

Hey.

- You look great.

- Thank you.

- Did you do something with your hair?

- Oh. Just got it done.

- Are you serious?

- Thanks for noticing.

- No problem.

- Can you stop flirting with my mom?

I'm not flirting with your mom.

She does look pretty good though.

All right, go.

And let's not forget our most important

piece of equipment on this journey...

my 1994 Grand Jeep Cherokee.

Six-cylinder engine,

blood-red finish, roof racks...

16-inch clearance, perfect for maneuvering

over any desert...

Sorry.

...phenomenon has returned.

- Oh, sh*t.

- For the second time in one week,

mysterious lights have been spotted

over the Phoenix area...

- Yo, Mark! Look at this!

- ...this time, over the suburb of Mesa.

The sightings fascinated residents.

It was completely silent.

You couldn't hear it,

but you knew it was there.

It was just massive, it was big.

Eye-witnesses

describe what they saw as being identical

to the glowing orbs that passed

through the area earlier this week...

Is that them? Are those your aliens?

...a mysterious "V" formation

that flew from west to east.

- The video you're seeing right now...

- Dude, I know where this is.

...captured in Mesa

about ten miles from the...

Wait, this is it, here on the right.

Right, right, right, right! Go!

- Go, go, go, go, go!

- Sh*t. Let me know

a little earlier next time.

Jeez, man.

Dang.

This is it. This is where

they were, right over that ridge.

Well...

whatever they were, they're long gone now.

Dude.

Well, dude, check this out.

Somebody's up there.

You do realize we gotta get up

in, like, six hours, right?

Dude, we're almost to the top.

All right.

Whoa!

Get down.

Dude, kill the light.

What are you doing? Josh?

Josh, let's get the hell out of here.

Just hang on.

Man, those are cops up there.

Dude, there's no plates.

I don't care, let's go.

They're just cops.

Dude, cops don't walk around in

the middle of the night with telescopes.

They're looking for it.

What?

- The UFO.

- Josh, I don't care. Let's go.

- That's what they're looking for.

- Oh, my God.

- Hey!

- Oh sh*t!

Run, b*tch!

Run! Come on!

Okay, so this is the first sighting

right above South Mountain.

This is the second.

And this is where we're going,

right in the flight path of the first two.

Nobody knows about this.

I told you.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

This was an unusual case.

What do you mean

it was unusual? In what sense?

Uh, well... it's very uncommon to have

three kids go missing at the same time.

- Just because there were three of them?

- There were three, yeah.

It is usually one, maybe two,

boyfriend-girlfriend,

but the fact that there were three,

you know, set it outside of the norm.

What did you guys use to get to drink?

I always got lemonade but Mark,

he'd always go for a suicide.

All the way down. Dash of everything.

Do you remember

the night that you got the call?

Sure. Yeah. Um...

I was in my first year at ASU,

and I got a call late at night from my mom

saying that Mark hadn't come home.

My dad was convinced that l'd taken him

to some frat party and gotten him drunk.

He was pissed off.

He was even more pissed than Ashley's dad,

if you can believe that.

My mom told me that if I just got

them home ASAP, I wouldn't get in trouble.

They just... they refused to believe me.

I didn't realize at the time that I was

the last reasonable explanation that they had

before they started to freak out for real.

Officer...

Is someone there?

Possible 11-24 on the side of the highway.

No, no one inside.

- Copy that, 11-24.

- 10-4.

Should I put my phone in airplane mode?

It won't affect the flight at all

- if you don't put it in.

- All right.

- I use that on planes.

- Yeah, that's bull crap.

The reason I wanted to talk

to you was because you were involved

- in the search for my brother.

- I was.

Um, can you tell me

a little bit about... about that?

Strange case.

That's where the car was found.

Right down there?

Do you think someone could have

forced them off the road?

It's possible, but I doubt it.

It seems like they left

the car here intentionally.

What do you mean, "intentionally"?

Oh, the car was parked perfectly in line,

so it didn't seem like

they were in a rush or anything.

The doors were locked.

We didn't find the keys.

It was functional. It... it ran.

It wasn't like it ran out of gas

or the battery died out there.

They were able to start it up.

And we found some beers in the car.

Some beers? Like, they were drinking?

Yeah. Just a couple of beers. We really

don't know if that means anything.

There were traces of blood,

and we think it was Mark's.

And your brother's camera, of course.

This is the one they found in the car.

The Diamondbacks are

the snakes that you want to look out for.

Some dude died.

I guess he was climbing over, like, a ridge

and it struck, and it hit him in the neck.

You dick!

What?

Are you serious? What about her parents, huh?

You're the one who wants to hit the road.

You want to get in trouble

before we even leave?

- God.

- Now she comes out.

Well. I guess it worked.

It's 7:
30 in the morning, you d*cks.

All right, well, there's a lot of d*cks

getting thrown at the driver right now.

- What?

- All right, you guys ready?

- Josh, do you have all the equipment?

- Can you move your camera?

Yeah, no, we're good, we're good.

Are you sure we shouldn't double check?

'Cause once we're gone, we're gone.

- Okay, go, go. Please drive.

- What?

- It's just I don't want to talk to my dad.

- He looks like a sweet man.

Yeah, until you meet him.

Wait, when do you guys have to be home by?

My parents aren't as concerned.

My mom just like won't go

to sleep until I'm home.

Different when you're a girl...

- No, no, a hundred percent.

- ...with two men.

- Hey look! Look, Josh.

- It would say Interstate.

Look at this. It looks like

those petroglyphs in that book.

- Those were clearly made...

- Quick, shoot that.

...by alien spacecraft.

# Arizona, take off your hobo shoes #

# Arizona, hey, won'tcha go my way #

I can tell 'em a little something.

# Unh, Arizona, Unh #

# So hot and fresh, giving me a boner #

# Unh, rock and roller #

# Unh, bowler, Coca-Cola #

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T.S. Nowlin

T.S. Nowlin is an American screenwriter best known for writing The Maze Runner. more…

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