Second Idea

Opening Scene-


For my second idea i decided to go for the typical opening scene, but with a twist. It starts out of shots of a big scary house, then inside the house is a young girl asleep in bed. Whilst sleeping, her bedroom door creaks open and a man walks inside with a knife. He walks over to the bad and lifts up his knife but as he does a pair of skinny, pale arms shoot out from underneath the bed and grab his ankles and yanks him hard under the bed where he disappears.

The story behind this opening is that the pale arms belong to a dead girl who got murdered a few years before. Because she was murdered in such a horrendous and violent attacks, she comes back from the dead to go after the one who killed her. The only problem with this is that she don't know for certain who it actually was so she goes after anyone it could be. Therefore she kills a number of Innocent people along the way, but not people who are really innocent as there all killers and rapists.

My inspirations for this film were The Grudge and The Ring but with my own twist to make it original. It's similar in the ways that i have used a dead girl coming back to life. However the girl in The Grudge is haunting a house and the girl in The Ring is killing the people who have watched the video. The dead girl in my film will be coming back to get vengeance on her killer, but killing a number of wring people on the way, which i believe is not like any other film.

For this idea i researched into Japanese horror. This is because over the past few years J-horror (for short) has become more and more popular, which has changed the sort of films we watch today. Because of how good the Japanese are at making horror films, a lot of there movies have either been changed into American or entirely remade in America for our viewing. Some Japanese films that got made into American and done well in both counties are 'Dark water' 'The grudge' 'Pulse' 'One missed call' The ring' 'Premonition' 'Recarnation' etc. The Ring was the first Japanese film that made a big impact on the American and English screens in 1998. It aloud the western culture to experience yurei, which are Japanese ghosts which have been bound to the physical world through string emotions which don't allow them to pass on. Depending on what emotion it is that's keeping them on the world is depending on what sort of ghost that it is that is stuck on the earth and unfortunately there usually bound here by vengeance. Like most folklore creatures yurei have traditional appearances and usually stick by a certain set of rules. The yurei are usually female, and wear a white robe looking piece of clothing, which are the traditional funeral garments in Japan. They also usually have long, black, messy hair.


As I'm using the same idea of a dead girl in my film, like the films that inspired me, I'm going to use the same looking girl in mine, the traditional yurei. This image would be a good one to use as it's simple to achieve but very effective. All i would need is to put a black wig and some white face paint onto a young female.