Synopsis

At first we thought we would do a thriller/horror based on films such as 'The Happening' (a thriller) or 'The Village' (a psychological horror) both films were directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and neither were hugely successful, however they incorporated ideas that we had originally wanted to use. Ideas of blackouts and memory loss combined with increasingly suspicious circumstances; we soon found difficult to show on film, as well as making sense of a chronological order and a continuous story line. For these reasons, we decided to move in a slightly different direction, although trying to use our previous research and apply what we had already learnt into our current project.

Our film is a thriller with a psychotic twist, it is aimed at teenagers however can draw an older audience due to the depth of it's subject. The film takes place in unremarkable settings, however the juxtaposition between the subject matter and the surroundings gives the film a sense of mystery, as the audience never know where and when the next murder will take place. The film's key focus is of a mentally unstable young woman, and her 'murderer'.
This woman lives in fear, for she has recurring visions of her own death caused by a hooded figure, however due to her mental instability, the audience are left to decipher whether they are seeing into the future, and the discovery of the hooded figure must also be discovered before it is too late for our protagonist. the audience is kept in suspense, and tension fills the air as we discover whether the visions come true or if another story will unravel from this woman's dreams.
It is unique, as the past, present and future merge into one, and the line between reality and fantasy is never clear, and because it is from the point of a woman with psychosis, many details come to light, which may have otherwise been left unnoticed, and one woman is finally able to tell her story.

The Team

Julia Pendered

Becky Nagle

Robert Wells