Barn Find

Genre: Horror / Thriller

Budget Estimate: $4–8 million

Logline: A brash young YouTube car hunter and her reluctant sister stumble onto a derelict farm filled with classic muscle cars—and a vampire family determined to keep their blood-soaked secrets buried with the dead.

Comps: Let the Right One In, X, Lost Boys

Coverage: The execution comes in at a professional level. Craft is on point. Talent is on the page.

Market Positioning: Barn Find combines the rural dread of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with the supernatural mythology of Let the Right One In, updated for a modern social-media-infused audience. A single-location shoot with strong roles for two female leads, it offers smart tension, visual claustrophobia, and a contained budget with breakout potential on horror streaming platforms.

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One-Page Summary

Sisters Emelia and Riley, co-hosts of a car restoration YouTube series, follow a promising lead to a junkyard in rural farmland. With their small film crew, they explore a massive trove of decaying vehicles—and stumble across a familiar car they believe once belonged to their estranged father. Despite a few red flags and warnings from locals, they decide to stay and investigate further.

What begins as a quirky roadside detour spirals into terror as the crew is hunted and picked off by a seemingly ordinary farm family—who are anything but. Kyle, a quiet teenage boy living on the property, reveals himself to be a vampire whose parents procure victims to keep him alive. Riley and Emelia are taken hostage in a brutal cat-and-mouse chase, where they begin to uncover the horrifying truth behind the family’s blood-soaked operation.

As the sun rises and their chances for escape shrink, the sisters must confront impossible choices: sacrifice their humanity, leave each other behind—or become the next victims preserved in the barn. The climax builds to a devastating, ambiguous resolution that leaves one sister caught between life, death, and something far more monstrous.

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