Treatment 1 for final film

Treatment

Title: Final Review

Genre: Psychological Horror

Duration: 5 minute short drama

Audience: Certificate 15, would be preferred by people with more complex film tastes who can appreciate a horror film that involves deep social issues with some horror thrown in.

Distribution: this film would be distributed to Independent cinemas such as the “Showroom” in Sheffield and shown on TV after the watershed. This film would also be distributed on the Internet on websites like “YouTube” and Facebook.

Synopsis: the film is about a recluse man who tends to shy away from contact with other people and rarely goes outside for anything other than work and supplies. The film starts off with an opening of which quickly shows his everyday life. He then goes out for something to eat from the shop and he then gets a DVD almost forced upon him by a shifty stranger in the street who almost seems scared of what the DVD contains. The man then retreats back to his flat and immediately abandons his groceries at the front door as he comes in and rushes to his TV and DVD player. Before inserting the disc he gets out a notebook and pen and inspects the disc before putting the DVD in and pushing play. He watches the DVD with a blank stare as he observes the mysterious figure on the screen slit his wrist bleed to deaf. With no control over his own actions he stumbles toward his messy kitchen and grabs a large knife and whilst glancing at the TV screen proceeds to cut his own wrist. Snapping out of his trance he realizes quickly what he has done collapses to he knees in front of the TV cradling his arms and looking down to the floor as he lets out a weep. He looks up slowing to the TV and sees that it is he on the television copying his exact movements and he rolls over on to the floor and dies. As the TV continues to run, you see a dark figure enter the room, step over the body and walk towards the TV and you see it is the man who gave him the DVD and he smiles and switches off the television. The movie ends to the sound off a DVD be ejected.