Final concept of film (edited in response to audience feedback)

This is the second and final draft of the concept of our film 'Who's There?'. The concept has been edited in response to audience feedback.

Synopsis of film:

Todorov's Theory:

Equilibrium

Disruption

Realisation the disruption has occurred

Attempt to repair

New equilibrium

2. The murder of two teenage boys by a masked killer (the killer has no motive to kill the boys or any other people he kills, he picks them off at random and this creates a 'nobody is safe' atmosphere). The boys walk home different ways, one of them receives a phone call from the other and all he can hear is heavy breathing and wind as if someone is being chased or followed, he hears a scream from Ben then all goes silent on the phone. He walks back, worried, to find him and he then finds his friends body on the floor, he takes steps back in shock of what he has just seen and walks back into the masked killers knife.

1.Introduced to a family who are moving into a house and unbeknownst to them it is near the area where the murders of two boys have recently happened (six months after the murders happened).   

2. Family receive an anonymous welcome card, open the door after its been posted and nobody is there.

3. Old woman from just across the street reveals all to family, after they research what they have just been told they are horrified to find an old news report about the murders of the boys. They also discover that other murders the same killer is believed to be responsible for started with receiving anonymous letters and messages.    

4. Family start looking for other houses after trying to cope with receiving more anonymous letters for a month they feel very unsafe and try to find a new home as fast as possible. However, they are unaware that it is already too late.     

5. The masked killer breaks into the house in the middle of the night when all the lights are off and everyone is asleep. He uses the knife to make scratching sounds on the walls, this wakes up the parents and then all they hear are loud bangs which they think are on the front door (it is in fact the killer walking up the stairs) the mother sends the dad to go downstairs and see what it was. However, as the dad opens the bedroom door a masked man is standing in the doorway, he kills the dad, the mum screams and this wakes up the daughter, the killer then runs into the room and grabs the mum. He waits for the daughter to run into the room before killing her mother, she then tries to run away but falls down the stairs, as she tries to get back up it is too late as he is already behind her. He then grabs the daughter and wipes her parents blood off the knife onto the clothes. He then tapes her mouth up and walks upstairs, when he comes down he is holding her parents blood stained bed sheets in his hands and uses them to her up, once she is tied up he drags her out of the house and into the forest.