GROUP IDEACHARLEY, OLIVIA, RYAN & JOHAN

• A MUM WITH A TEENAGE ONLY CHILD, THE MUM ABUSES THE SON AND HE GOES MISSING AFTER AN EPISODE AND KILLS HIMSELF BY DROWNING.

• WANTS TO GET REVENGE, BY TORTURING ALL THE OTHER TEENAGERS IN THE VILLAGE.

• GROUP OF TEENAGERS GO TO THE RUINS BECAUSE OF HAUNTING RUMOURS.

• GROUP OF TEENAGERS FIND EVIDENCE OF THE SUICIDE, HEAR SCREAMS AND EERIE NOISES, SCARED THEY GO HOME.

• THE GROUP IS THEN HARASSED ONE BY ONE, STILL THINKING THEY’RE PRANKING ONE ANOTHER. THE FILM IS SELF AWARE AND IRONIC.

• THE FILMS ENDS WITH THE FINAL GIRL GOING TO THE MUM, SO SHE CAN APOLOGISE, THE BOY KILLS THE MUM. THE POLICE TURN UP DUE TO REPORTED SCREAMS OVER THE RUINS, THEY TRY TO COMFORT THE GIRL, MUMBLING ABOUT GHOSTS AND HER FRIENDS DYING AND GETS PUT IN CUFFS AND TAKEN AWAY.

BRIEF NARRATIVE

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION•BURGH CASTLE RUINS: SITUATED NEAR A RIVER WITH SOME MARSH LAND THE BURGH

CASTLE RUINS ARE A KEY LOCATION FOR OUR HORROR FILM. THIS IS WHERE MULTIPLE KEY

EVENTS OF THE FILM HAPPEN. THE BOYS SUICIDE TAKES PLACE HERE AND IT WHERE THE 4 TEENAGERS GO TO INVESTIGATE THE ‘HAUNTING’ RUMOURS. THE FIRST DEATH IN THE FILM ALSO HAPPENS AT THIS LOCATION. THE RUINS ARE EERIE AT NIGHT DUE TO THE LACK OF LIGHTING MAKING THEM THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET MANY OF OUR MORE EERIE AND NIGHT-TIME SHOTS.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION•CHARLEY’S HOUSE: SCARED AND WARY OF THE STRANGE AND HORRIFIC

THINGS THAT HAPPENED AT THE RUINS THE TEENAGERS RECRUIT BACK TO ONE OF

THEIR HOUSES TO CALM DOWN AND RELAX. THE THREE OF THEM TALK BEFORE ONE LEAVES TO GO HOME, WHERE THEY ARE KILLED BY THE GHOST. UNKNOWN TO THE OTHER TWO THEY GO TO SLEEP. ANOTHER KEY PLACE AS IT IS WHERE THE THIRD DEATH HAPPENS, ONE OF THE FEMALES IN A ‘SLEEPWALK’ STATE JUMPS OFF OF THE

TOP OF THE BUILDING.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

•ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH: WE WILL BE USING THIS LOCATION FOR ANOTHER

ONE OF THE MAJOR CHARACTER DEATHS HAPPENS. JAY WILL BE WALKING BACK TO HIS HOUSE LATE AT NIGHT WHEN HE SEES THE GHOST AT THE END AND AFTER THIS HE SEES THE GHOST OF CHRISTIAN EVERYWHERE BEFORE HE HAS AN ANEURYSM. THIS IS A GOOD LOCATION FOR THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE FACT THAT IT IS A CHURCH AND

GRAVEYARD MAKES IT MORE EERIE AND ADDS TO THE HORROR ELEMENT.

CHARACTER PROFILES•CHAD: THE ATHLETIC AND ARROGANT ONE IN THE GROUP OF TEENAGERS.

• HE IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GHOSTS OR THE IDEA THAT THEY ARE BEING HAUNTED. THINKS THAT GOING TO THE RUINS TO INVESTIGATE THE ‘SUICIDE’ IS STUPID AND A WASTE OF TIME. HE IS THE FIRST ONE TO DIE AS HE IS THE FIRST FROM THE GROUP WHO DECIDES TO GO HOME ON HIS OWN, AND DUE TO HIM NOT BELIEVING AND BEING SCEPTICAL HE DIES FIRST WHEN HE IS ALONE IN HIS CAR. IT IS MADE TO LOOK LIKE HE HAS DIED IN A CAR CRASH, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY DUE TO THE GHOST THAT HE SAW JUST BEFORE HE DIED.

• FOR THE TRAILER CHAD WILL BE WEARING CLOTHES THAT PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER TYPE; LIKE TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS AND TOPS, AS THIS WILL PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER IN THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THE TRAILER WILL ROLE FOR.

•THE HELPER

•JAY: THE ‘PRANKSTER’ OF THE GROUP.

• HE IS SKEPTICAL ABOUT THEM BEING HAUNTED AND CONTINOUSLY TORMENTS THE GROUP BY PLAYING PRAKS ON THEM SUCH AS SCARING THEM OR DOING THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THEM BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE REALLY BEING HAUNTED. HE IS THE SECOND ONE TO DIE WHEN HE LEAVES THE REAMINING GROUP AT CHARLEY’S AND DECIDES TO GO HOME, THE REASON FOR HIS DEATH IS THE FACT THAT HE WAS MAKING FUN OF THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTING.

• IN THE TRAILER JAY WILL BE WEARING MODERN DAY CLOTHES, SUCH AS JEANS, A T-SHIRT AND A JACKET, AS THIS COULD PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SPECIFIC CLOTHES THAT REPRESENT A PRANKSTER.

•THE HELPER

CHARACTER PROFILES

•MADDISON: IS THE ‘ACADEMIC’ AND ‘REALIST’ CHARACTER.

• MADDISON IS THE ONE WHO DOESN’T THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO GO AND INVESTIGATE THE SUICIDE AND THE PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENED. SHE BELIEVES IN THE SUPERNATURAL

IS VERY PARANOID ABOUT BEING HAUNTED OR PUNISHED FOR BOTHERING THE SPIRIT. DUE TO HER PARANOIA SHE IS THE 3RD MEMBER OF THE GROUP TO DIE.

• ONCE AGAIN SHE WILL BE WEARING MODERN DAY CLOTHES THAT HAVE A SLIGHTLY REPRESENTATION TOWARDS HER CHARACTER – SHIRT AND JEANS – SO THAT IT ISN’T TOO

OBVIOUS WHAT TRAIT SHE HAS IN THE GROUP.

•THE HELPER

CHARACTER PROFILES

•CHARLEY: OUR FINAL GIRL WHO SURVIVES UNTIL THE END.

• IN THE NARRATIVE THE FINAL GIRL IS SIMILAR TO THE ‘REALIST’ CHARACTER EXCEPT SHE ISN’T AS PARANOID ABOUT THE SPIRIT, SHE BELIEVES IN GHOSTS BUT DOES BELIEVE THAT

THEY CAN REALLY HAUNT OR HURT YOU. SHE SURVIVES UNTIL THE END OF THE FILM WHERE SHE TRIED TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT BETWEEN THE GHOST OF THE BOY AND HIS MOTHER SO THAT EVERYTHING IS ‘OVER.’ DESPITE THIS WE SEE HER BEING TAKEN AWAY BY THE POLICE DUE TO HER MENTAL STATE AFTER WITNESSING THE DEATH OF SO MANY PEOPLE.

• MODERN DAY CLOTHING – A JUMPER AND JEANS – SOMETHING THAT IS QUITE

ANDROGYNOUS TO REPRESENT HER CHARACTER TYPE.

•THE ‘FINAL GIRL’ AND HERO

CHARACTER PROFILES

•CHRISTIAN: THE VILLAIN THE BOY WHO IS ABUSED BY HIS MOTHER,

HE KILLS HIMSELF AT THE RUINS AND CANNOT BE AT REST DUE TO HIS ABUSE. HE IS DISTURBED BY THE TEENAGERS AND TORMENTS THEM ONE BY ONE AND EVENTUALLY KILLS THEM. HE WILL BE WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND LOOK VERY PALE AND GHOSTLY, WILL BE FAIRLY TALL AND HAVE A ‘POWERFUL’ AURA ABOUT HIM.

•MRS THORNE: DOESN’T FEATURE MUCH, PLAYED BY A WOMAN AGED BETWEEN

30-50, WHO ALSO WEARS DARK CLOTHING DUE TO HER REGRET ABOUT HER SON. SHE WANTS TO CONTACT HIM SO SHE CAN ASK FOR HIS FORGIVENESS BUT DOES NOT KNOW

HOE TO DO SO. SHE FINALLY GETS TO APOLOGISE IN THE END, BUT THIS STILL RESULTS IN HER DEATH.

CHARACTER PROFILES

• A MOTHER, MRS THORNE, ABUSES HER ONLY SON. SHE TREATS HIM POORLY EVERYDAY AND BEATS HIM, ON THIS PARTICULAR DAY SHE TELLS HIM TO GO KILL HIMSELF. THE BOY, CHRISTIAN, HEADS DOWN TO THE OLD RUINS NEAR THEIR HOUSE AND WALKS INTO THE BROADS, THE CURRENT

DRAGS HIM UNDER AND ALL THAT REMAINS IS HIS CRUCIFIX AND HIS T SHIRT FLOATING ON TOP OF THE WATER.

• 6 MONTHS LATER, A GROUP OF TEENAGERS WHO ARE IN COLLEGE DECIDE TO GO TO THE RUINS

AND GO ‘GHOST HUNTING’ AS A JOKE. THE PRANKSTER, JAY, DECIDES TO BRING HIS CAMERA GEAR TO MAKE IT FEEL REAL AND TRIES TO SCARE THE OTHER FRIENDS BY SAYING ‘THEY’RE GOING TO CATCH A GHOST ON CAMERA’. WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT THE RUINS A WOMAN TELLS THE GROUP

NOT TO ENTER THE RUINS AFTER DARK AS THE RUINS ARE HAUNTED FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY WHO KILLED HIMSELF 6 MONTHS PRIOR, DUE TO HIS MOTHERS ABUSE HE CAN NOT BE AT REST AND HARASSES THOSE WHO ENTER THE RUINS AND DISTURB HIM.

BEGINNING

• AFTER THE SUN HAS SET THE GROUP ARE NEARLY DONE FILMING THE RUINS, THEY GO

DOWN NEAR THE WATER WHERE THE BOY ALLEGEDLY KILLED HIMSELF. THEY FIND A CRUCIFIX IN THE MUD AN PULL IT OUT, WHILE STARING AT THE CROSS THEY HEAR A SCREAM, THEY ALL TURN TO QUICKLY LOOK TOWARDS MADDISON WHO CAN SEE A T-

SHIRT CAUGHT IN THE BUSHES ACROSS THE WATER. AS THE COLLEGE TEENAGERS TOUCH THE CROSS IT DISTURBS THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY, WHO IS ANGRY. THIS IS THE DISRUPTION STAGE.

DISRUPTION

THE TEENAGERS ARE NOW UNDER HARASSMENT OF THE SPIRIT, ALTHOUGH AT THIS STAGE THEY ARE ALL SCEPTICAL AND CHAD DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING SUPERNATURAL. HE

SAYS HOW HE’S HAD ENOUGH OF ALL THIS AND DECIDES TO GO BACK TO THE CAR, THE GROUP SLOWLY WALK BACK TO THE CAR PARK ONLY TO FIND CHAD COVERED IN BLOOD

WITH SCRATCH MARKS AND BITE MARKS WITH HIS HEAD ON THE STEERING WHEEL AND HIS CAR CRASHED INTO A HEDGE WITH SMOKE POURING OUT OF THE CAR. IT IS ASSUMED CHAD

CRASHED HIS CAR AND HE IS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BUT PASSES IN HOSPITAL. CHARLEY IS SCEPTICAL AND THINKS IT WAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE SPIRIT, SEEMS AS CAR

CRASHES DON’T CAUSE BITE MARKS. THEY ALL HEAD BACK TO CHARLEY’S AND BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE AROUND THE THORNE RUINS SUICIDE.

SITUATION

QUEST• AFTER MUCH HARASSMENT FROM WHAT SEEMED TO BE UNEXPLAINED. CHARLEY DETERMINES THAT

THEY ARE BEING FOLLOWED AND INDIVIDUALLY PICKED OFF ONE BY ONE. CHARLEY SAYS THEY SHOULD STAY TOGETHER, MADDISON STAYS WITH CHARLEY BUT JAY DECIDES TO GO HOME AS HE IS SCEPTICAL. ON JAYS WALK ON THE WAY HOME DOWN AN ALLEYWAY HE SEES A FIGURE, THEN BEGINS

TO COUGH HARD, HE RUNS THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND BREAKS DOWN, COUGHING BLOOD, BLOOD COMES OUT OF HIS EYES AND EARS AND HE FINALLY BREAKS DOWN TO THE GROUND.

• MEANWHILE BACK AT CHARLEY’S HOUSE, ASLEEP TOGETHER IN BED. MADDISON AWAKES AND IN A

‘SLEEPWALK’ TRANCE WALKS UP TO THE WINDOW AND JUMPS, FALLING TO HER DEATH. WE AS AN AUDIENCE HEAR A SCREAM FROM CHARLEY’S MUM. CHARLEY RECEIVES NEWS THAT JAY DIED ON THE

WAY HOME DUE TO AN ANEURYSM AND MADDISON DIED EARLIER THAT MORNING DUE TO FALLING OFF THE HOUSE. CHARLEY SHOOK AND DISTRAUGHT SWEARS TO END THIS CURSE AND SETS OUT TO FIND MRS. THORNE TO SEE IF SHE HAS ANY ANSWERS.

ENDING• CHARLEY CONFRONTS MRS. THORNE AND AFTER MUCH CONVINCING DECIDES TO CONFRONT THE SPIRIT

OF HER SON. THIS IS TO TRY AND PUT THE SON AT PEACE FROM THE MOTHER APOLOGISING FOR ALL HER

ACTIONS. WHILE SHE IS APOLOGISING ON HER KNEES WITH A CRUCIFIX ON HER HANDS, SHE SUDDENLY

HAS HER NECK BROKEN AND FALLS TO THE GROUND, CHARLEY PANICS AND RUNS OVER TO MRS. THORNE, SETTING THE CAMERA DOWN ON A ROCK, SUDDENLY, POLICE SIRENS ARE HEARD AND TWO POLICEMEN

COME INTO THE FRAME, THEY CHECK MRS. THORNE’S PULSE WHILE CHARLEY MUTTERS ABOUT THE

SPIRIT OF THE BOY, SUDDENLY THE OFFICERS TURN TO CHARLEY, ONE OF THEM TRIES TO COMFORT HER WHILE THE OTHER SUDDENLY RESTRAINS HER FROM BEHIND, THE LAST SCENE IN THE FILM IS A SHOT

OF CHARLEY BEING DRAGGED OUT OF FRAME BY THE TWO POLICE OFFICERS FOR THE FALSE MURDER OF

MRS. THORNE, THE CAMERA CONTINUES ROLLING FOR 30 SECONDS WITH THE SUN SETTING AND JUST

MRS. THORNE’S BODY IN FRAME, SUDDENLY THE CAMERA IS KNOCKED OVER ON THE FLOOR OFF THE ROCK BY AN UNSEEN FORCE, ROLLING BLACK FOR A FEW SECONDS BEFORE CUTTING OUT.