Phoebe Lewis was kidnapped at age 13 and has been trapped in a house of horrors for 5 years by an elderly woman. She finds that another teenage boy, Xavier, has also been imprisoned there for 7 years. Phoebe hopes that her father, the local police chief, will be able to find clues to rescue her. However, the elderly woman who holds them captive has remained unknown to Phoebe and her family, and her motivations for the kidnappings are unclear. The film will start with flashes of Phoebe's kidnapping intercut with scenes of the elderly woman's daily routine to build tension, then follow Phoebe's attempts to escape or be rescued from the mysterious house of horrors.
2. Third Thriller Idea: She Was Here
Plot: In the pleasant Town of Bury St Edmund, an old woman created
herself a secret, twisted and depraved way to get what she wanted.
Phoebe Lewis, a sweet girl with a wonderful family, seemed to be her
latest prize in this perverse scheme. Trapped in a house of horrors for 5
years, Phoebe finds herself with one other prisoner: a teenage boy that
might just be her salvation or her downfall and has been trapped for 7
years. Will Phoebe's dad, the Chief of Police, ever find her and finally
string the clues together? Or, will she be the next victim to fade away
forever just like Xavier? What does her captor want from her? Why
her?
3. Opening Sequence:
In the opening sequence, it will start off with close ups of an elderly woman
going about her daily chores. E.g getting out of bed, brushing her teeth,
making some breakfast etc etc.
However between each frame of the elderly women going about her daily
routine there will be flashes of our main protagonists, Phoebe Lewis,
kidnapping by an unknown source.
As the tension builds and the frames become faster and faster and the music
builds, suddenly it will all stop as the elderly woman walks down a set of
stairs and disappears into the darkness
4. Characters
Phoebe Lewis
Protagonist
Innocent Victim
18 Years Old now, was 13 when kidnapped
Old Lady Unknown to Phoebe and Audience
Antagonist
Psychotic Individual
68 Years Old
Unknown to Phoebe and her family
Kidnapper of Phoebe and Xavier
Michael Lewis
Phoebes Dad
Chief of Police
45 Years Old
Xavier Largent
Other Kidnapping victim
Innocent Victim
19 Years Old Now, was 12 when kidnapped
5. Thriller Conventions:
This is my third Thriller Film idea. The idea itself includes a few of the main
conventions and elements of Thriller Films. Use of suspense and tension to create
excitement to engage the audience. It would be classified as the Thriller sub-genres of
Mystery, Crime and Psychological Thriller. The Thriller itself would have the
atmosphere of menace, violence, crime and murder. The Thriller would also have
literary devices such as a plot twist and would finish on a cliff hanger. It would also
have the idea of a 'whodunnit' mystery thriller as for a few short seconds, the
audience and the main character don't know who committed the crime. Also, it
would have the ideas of a crime thriller as there is a kidnapping .Principle
Concealment of the plot is used to create the shock factor for the audience and make
them work for the answers. It also features conventional characters types such as:
detectives, innocent victims, psychotic individuals, cops, and people involved in a
twisted relationship.