A tightly wound city Yuppie is forced to take a weekend break by his doctor but is SO connected to the ‘City Pulse’ that he dies  and becomes a zombie who terrorises the village near his cottage.

A man SO plugged into the pulse of the city, But when he escapes to the country for a long weekend he dies and becomes "The Urban Zombie: Thatch High Sell Low".

It could start by the farming family who live near buy come to get him to move his Land Rover form the dirt path where they take the sheep to market. they begin to read his diary, where he recounts his deterioration after leaving the ‘city’, and are attacked by him, already changed, an undead type monster (who has deteriorated to how a classic zombie looks but moves like a slugish human).

 

He now escapes through the front door which the neighbours left open. He then heads down the path to the local village and systematically terrorises the local (steriotype UK village) buildings; Smashing into tea rooms and crying out incoherently demanding WI-FI and eating the farmers’ brains at the local market happening who don’t have 'farm sustainably' banners at their stalls.

He leaves the village and shuffles back towards his cottage where he spies in the adjoining  feild a bunch of caravans and instantly keeles over fully dead. killed by this band of travelling gypsies who in the zombies mind have inadvertently lowered the value of his country home unwittingly.

 

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Starts, day, on a dirt country road, abandoned Land Rover sits across the path.

Disgruntled Farming couple walk down path, past car which they glower at, and up the front pathway to the Yuppies cottage. They knock, then after no response the man forces the door open; leaving it open behind them as they enter.

 

The cottage is dark, light streams in low from few windows, and the electrics don’t seem work. All the photos are of a city Yuppie, drinking/shouting/kicking a tramp etc. The man and woman split up, he goes up stairs and she to the kitchen; we follow her. The Kitchen is a mess, food strewn around the place, but on the kitchen table is an un-tampered but closed book (light streams through the window to catch the books corner) She calls up the her husband but hears nothing in response so opens the book which is revealed to be a diary and she starts to read

 

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FLASHBACK      (there is a rhythmic beet/pulse in the background which slows to nothing at the end of the pages inscriptions)

 

Scenes of the yuppie recounting why he was forced to take a break. Therapist forces him to try the break treatment and keep a diary of what happens over the weekend sabbatical for the next session

 

Driving up with Bluetooth and shouting into it

 

Entering the cottage and being cut off as there is no signal out in the area.

 

Unpacking/pacing about/pissed as his laptop dies and there is no electricity in the cottage/ Freaking out as he looks at his hand which is now gangrenous/ becoming aware after having killed and eaten a fox with his bare hands/clawing up the stares into the shadows

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The Farmer woman drops the diary in horror and steps back where the Yuppie lumbers forth from the shadows and bites her from behind. (Camera/shot on a picturesque still of the cottage form outside) She screams/gurgles

 

We then follow (back inside, reverse shot) the Yuppie Zombie as he lumbers toward the, now open, door of the cottage. He walks down past the car and onto a paved road and heads toward the local village (his Bluetooth, which he is still wearing, comes to life again)