Short Film

THE LAST EXORCIST® (COMIC BOOK)

Written by Asim Altokhais

AFIN 2020 Nominee

  • 2020
  • 18pp
  • Saudi Arabia
  • English
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
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Synopsis

Set in 1850 AD, at the heart of the Arabian peninsula, before becoming a country and discovering oil, where massive miles and miles of empty lands and deadly desert. “The last exorcist” weaves the tale of an exorcist who comes from a long bloodline of exorcists, but he’s on a mission to avenge his father killer, the Jinn King Haboryam, but there is a price to be paid.

Synopsis

When exorcizing demons and Jinn becomes the only air that you breathe.

The story sets in the early 1877 A.D, in the heart of the Arabian peninsula. “Desert Wolf” is an exorcist for evil spirits and jinn for more than a decade, the Jinn king “Haboryam” launch an evil attack on humans in order to regain his control on earth and humanity. The events starts by a female jinn “Silah” kidnaps newborn babies and eats them where “Desert Wolf” hunts her down and kills her after a long rooftop chase to go and exorcise a Jinni who possess humans and force them to do unthinkable acts of killings and suicide. “Desert Wolf” finds his way once he finds a wolf puppy who grows up to be his loyal friend and defeat Jinn.

One of the nomads falls in a slumber days before his marriage and “Desert Wolf” comes to cure him, but he’s going to do the thing he hates the most, getting into someone’s nightmare in order to know who witched him. “Desert Wolf” fights a gigantic Jinni where he defeats him after he spills out the sorcerer name who did this to the man. “Desert Wolf” goes on a mission to track her down and gets into a deadly fight with a three-headed-dog, “Desert Wolf” loses his left eye during the fight, but manages to kill the dog and slay the witch.

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Also selected at

1 award, 1 nomination, 1 official selection across 3 other festivals

  1. WinnerThe Literature, Publishing & Translation CommissionWinner: Best Comic Book · Saudi Arabia
  2. NomineeGenesis International Film FestivalAward Nominee: Best Comic · Moscow, Russian Federation · 2021
  3. SelectionPrague International Film AwardsOfficial Selection: Best Action Screenplay · Prague, Czech Republic · 2021

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Writer's Biography

Asim Altokhais Writer

Cultural entrepreneur, Professional Screenwriter, and Script Consultant Co-founder/General Manager at 3rd action, Inc. An award-winning screenwriter, and a novelist. Graduated from Vancouver Film School in 2011, majoring in writing for Film and TV, he also added MA Writing for Script and Screen from Falmouth University, United Kingdom. He published 8 books by Disney, Dark Horse, IUniverse, 3rd action Comics, Kalemat, Alhudhud, and Culture Trends. Asim is a column writer at MakkahNewspaper, his articles focus on expanding the culture of cinema and movie critic for local and international movies. Every Wednesday. Chosen as the main speaker in TEDx Riyadh, CYM Forum, MENA Cinema Forum, BroadcastPro Awards, DICM Conference, and others. So as chosen to be a judge and trainer in several competitions, events, and International workshops, such as the Sharjah Film Platform, U.S Embassy Riyadh, MENA Cinema Forum. Asim worked as a Co-producer/Translator for the full documentary film Earth Medicine (2014) and being chosen among 25 international writers to write a comics collection for Disney (Storied Places a comics collection) as the only Middle Eastern writer who wrote for Disney. Asim is considered the only Saudi writer to win the Arab Thought Foundation prize - Kitabi 21 - for his comic book ‘Alaa: The bounty hunter’. In 2017, 3rd action Comics published their first comic book The Last Exorcist™ in MFCC (Middle-East Film and Comic Con) which was a huge success, created and written by Asim Altokhais. Also, Asim has written and produced the short film titled Meeting With The Devil™ in Vancouver, B.C, Canada, and another short film in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia titled ‘Behind the Bentley glass’, Plus writing several short scripts, feature scripts, and novels. His scripts and cinematic works are chosen to the finalists in different film festivals and competitions, as he went to win several prizes such as 1st Place in the screenwriters’ Pitch Award, Best Short Film Script at Canadian Feedback Film Festival, and the best short film at Canada Shorts Film Festival where his short Meeting With The Devil™ is screened twice at London City Film Festival and Tuke Cinema Room of the Regents University.

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