The Cerp - Horror Thriller Script

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Before I spend another month cutting this thing down, I want to know if the premise is worth the month.

STORY:

Four friends skip a ninety-minute lift line by sneaking through a restricted maintenance gate at the biggest ski resort in the Pacific Northwest.

The back trails they end up on run across the face of a mountain that an escaped convict grew up on and three days earlier, he walked off a wrecked prison transport and back into those trees.

He isn't hunting them. They're on his mountain. He knows every structure, every drainage, every place a body goes. They know a folded trail map.

The hook I'm testing: the killer is not a mystery. You meet him in the first four pages, in full daylight of a sort, and the horror is that he is completely at home and they are completely not.

QUESTIONS:

1. Have I unknowingly written a movie that already exists? Genuinely asking point me at it if so.

2. Does "local who belongs here" work as a horror engine, or does it need a supernatural element to sell?

3. Would that logline make you click on a poster?