The Growl (Story Treatment)



A young boy opens the fridge to find a sticky note on his favorite snack that reads “Dinner’s at 7. NO SNACKS.” The boy sighs and closes the fridge door. He rubs his stomach as he makes his way to the living room, where he notices another note on the dial of the television. “NO MONSTER MOVIES.” The boy shrugs it off, unable to obey this second rule, as he crumples the note and turns the dial to a film already in progress. The set blares a handsome doctor and his sexy assistant as they discuss the tragic creation of “the monster.” Sexy Assistant is frightened, wanting desperately for Handsome Doctor to kill it, but Handsome Doctor insists that “science willed this creature onto the earth. There must be some higher reason for its existence. Our only hope is to contain it and experiment on it for conclusive evidence.” As this scene plays out the boy’s stomach growls, at first low, but then growing into a roar. He smacks his stomach to get it to stop, but the growls will not quit. The scene has changed to that moment when the monster makes its first appearance and kill. The boy begins to clutch at his sides and wrestle from the couch to the floor, dry heaving up a storm. Handsome Doctor finally discovers that the monster has caught him off guard, and Sexy Assistant lets out an earth shattering scream as the boy’s belly begins to expand until his stomach bursts from the depths of his body. The boy looks on in horror as the guts and innards drip from this creature that was once apart of him, that has taken on a life of its own, now towering over him with a hunger. The stomach then rushes from the boy's open wound to the screen, growling and screaming for the doctor to run away from the beast. The boy is speechless at the site of his own stomach so enraptured in the film. 

End credits show the stomach slinking its way back into the boy’s belly.