Mad Monk

[hippieluvn]

Years ago, I spent a semester in a Catholic college-seminary located on a beautiful, rural Benedictine monastery in Louisiana. While there, I met a priest who told the story of his days as a young seminarian studying on the same campus. He recalled being into filmmaking at the time, and how he'd created a short-film titled "The Mad Monk"--about a deranged, mass murdering monk. I never had a chance to see this movie, but would absolutely love to! The priest set the scene for me:

It's a "closed" weekend (i.e., seminarians must remain at the monastery), and priests, brothers, and seminarians are being murdered by a Mad Monk. Like Jason from Firday the 13th--whose kills are always preceded by a particular noise (kill, kill, kill, ha, ha, ha)--the Mad Monk always attacks with the sounds of the Dueling Banjos (music from Deliverance). Unlike the other monks, he wears the hood attached to their religious habit. This allows his identity to be concealed until the end of the film. At the end, there is a kung-fu fight scene between the protagonist (filmmaker) and the Mad Monk. After being beaten, the Mad Monk runs away, but is soon stopped; he runs into the drive and his accidentally hit by a car, driven by a near-bling priest--who shouldn't have been driving and didn't see the Mad Monk. A group congregates around the body and pulls back the hood to reveal the identity of the Mad Monk, a disgruntled ex-seminarian who was kicked out of the seminary (reason unknown).

Thought you guys would enjoy this story!