DO YOU DREAM IN RED?
MEET THE CHARACTERS BEHIND THE NIGHTMARE 🕯️🔥🩸
Main Characters 🎭
🎨 AISLIN PRUITT
Age: 18
Type: Protagonist /The Gifted Outsider / Psychic Heroine
Traits: Introspective, artistic, intuitive, guarded, brave
Description: A quiet, intuitive teenager haunted by dreams she can't explain - and a past she doesn't fully understand. Gifted with second sight and cursed by visions of fire and blood, Aislin is the emotional core of the story. Her connection to Havenport runs deeper than she knows, and the nightmares chasing her may be more than dreams. Becoming both a weapon and a conduit for the supernatural, her journey forces her to choose whether her gift is humanity’s salvation or its undoing.
Inspiration: Carrie White (1976) meets Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street) meets Dani Ardor (Midsommar)
🧠 TYLER THOMPSON
Age: 18
Type: Reluctant Hero / Skeptical Protector
Traits: Empathic, skeptical, courageous, emotionally conflicted
Description: Ty is a grieving teen haunted by the recent death of his father - and plagued by vivid nightmares he doesn't understand. Quiet and emotionally bottled up, he tries to act "normal" for his mother's sake, but beneath the surface, he's unraveling. He first meets Aislin inside a shared dream - a surreal, terrifying encounter that feels too real to ignore. When he runs into her outside the next day, the boundaries between waking life and nightmare begin to blur.
Ty is logical, skeptical, and emotionally guarded. But Aislin draws him out, unlocking not just his grief, but something buried deep inside him - a connection to the darkness plaguing Haidesville. As the horror escalates, Ty is forced to confront his deepest fears, his broken family, and his mysterious link to The Beast.
Inspiration: Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things) meets Jesse Walsh (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2)
🌟 SARA
Type: Heart of the group / Emotional grounding force
Traits: Loyal and kind-hearted / Innocent but not naive
Sara is Ty's childhood friend, recently returned to town. She and Ty share a quiet, unspoken history - including a first kiss at a middle school party, that still lingers beneath the surface. Sara is smart, a little flirty, and deeply loyal. She genuinely likes Ty, which Aislin begins to notice as tension brews between the three. Introduced first at the funeral scene, Sara brings emotional depth and vulnerability to the core group. Though playful on the outside, she's grounded and observant. As the nightmares become reality, Sara becomes an essential part of the trio caught in the escalating horror.
Inspiration: Nancy Wheeler (early Stranger Things) meets Jenny (Forrest Gump)
💔 VANESSA THOMPSON
Age: 45
Type: Protective Parent / Truth Seeker
Traits: Grounded, skeptical, strong-willed, compassionate
Description: Tyler’s mother. She begins the film as a rational skeptic, but becomes a fierce protector after supernatural events strike her family. Vanessa’s growing belief leads her to confront the town’s history head-on, with hints of a deeper ancestral connection to the curse.
📖 KATHY PRUITT
Age: 45
Type: Reluctant Oracle / Guilty Survivor / Protective Matriarch
Traits: Haunted, guilt-ridden, protective, resilient
Aislin's mother - but far more than just a background figure. Kathy is the key link between the present-day events in Haidesville and the original curse that destroyed Havenport in 1966. Mysterious, reclusive, and deeply burdened by her past, Kathy was one of the original girls involved in summoning the witch three decades earlier. Now older, and visibly haunted, she serves as the reluctant keeper of the truth.
When Aislin and Ty come to her for answers, Kathy is the one who reveals the hidden history of the town, the truth about Havenport, and their own connection to the events that are repeating. Her knowledge is tinged with guilt, and her motives are complex - torn between protecting her daughter and atoning for a sin she helped commit.
Kathy represents the weight of generational trauma, the danger of forbidden knowledge, and the price of trying to forget what should have been confronted. Her prescence is quiet but chilling, and her revelations ignite the final confrontation with The Beast.
🧢 DON
Age: 18
Type: Comic Relief / Loyal Best Friend
Traits: Funny, flirty, chill under pressure (until it gets real), loyal to a fault
Description: Ty's best friend and one of Aislin's close allies. He's the party-loving smartass of the group, quick with a joke even when things get dark. Don uses humor and sarcasm to mask his fear - until it becomes real. He throws the party where the terror breaks loose, and when it all goes to hell, Don fights to protect his friends, but ultimately becomes one of the Beast's most harrowing victims. His death marks a major turning point in the film and shatters any illusion of safety.
👁️🗨️ THE BEAST ('It')
Age: Ancient
Type: Supernatural Antagonist
Traits: Intelligent, sadistic, primal, manipulative
Description: A shapeless, ancient force born of trauma, fire, and fear. It stalks dreams. It burns towns. It hungers for the forgotten. It wears many faces... but only one name: The Beast.
Seen in red eyes, whispered warnings, and the final moments of those who fall asleep in Haidesville.
Visuals: 8 feet tall, lava-red eyes, greenish-black stone skin, fanged teeth, jagged claws.
Inspiration: (Legend’s Darkness) meets (It Follows)
Supporting Characters
🧑⚖️ ERIC THOMPSON
Tyler's father and a central figure in the story's emotional foundation. He is portrayed as a courageous and principled man - someone described as honest, fair and fearless. A devoted husband and father, Eric is the first known victim of the supernatural force haunting Haidesville. His mysterious and brutal death deeply impacts Ty, becoming the catalyst that reignites the past trauma tied to Havenport. Even in death, Eric's legacy looms over the characters, and his final interactions with Ty and Aislin hint at a protective instinct and a quiet suspicion that something darker lies beneath the surface of their new town.
👮♂️ SHERIFF/ACTING SHERIFF
The Sheiff (and later Acting Sheriff) is a skeptical but eventually cooperative authority figure. Initially dismissive of Aislin's warnings about a supernatural threat, he maintains a stoic, no-nonsense demeanor and tries to make sense of a series of escalating tragedies in town. However, after encountering Aislin and witnessing her conviction firsthand, he becomes one of the few adults to believe in the children's account. His evolution from disbelief to reluctant trust marks a subtle but important shift in the town's response to the evil force.
🧠 THE PSYCHOLOGIST
A more peripheral but symbolic figure, representing Ty's attempt to process trauma through traditional means. Though not a major player in the action, the psychologist's presence underscores Ty's vulnerability and mental state in the wake of his father's death. It is outside his office that Ty meets Aislin in the waking world for the first time - marking the threshold between psychological introspection and supernatural confrontation. This scene serves as a key pivot in the narrative.