Treatment and treatment analysis.

After having nothing to do a group of teenage friends decide to take a trip round to a local lake. The group of friends consists of a promiscuous blonde with her jock boyfriend, the funny guy, the geek chic girl and the bullied boy. When walking to the lake we see the constant banter between the group and the bullied boy by tripping him up and making virginal references towards him.

They find a spot facing the lake and decide to play a game of truth or dare. Here we see the bullied boy as an outsider of the group as he is positioned slightly away from the others. As the dares commence the bullied boy gets pressured to spend five minutes in the dark woods alone. However, after the time has passed the rest of the group panic, as he doesn’t come back, leaving the funny guy to go in search of him. Whilst the funny guy is searching for him, the bullied boy grabs him from behind the bush, stabs him and hides the body in the lake, leaving only the remains of the blood. As the rest of the group wait anxiously for their arrival, only the bullied boy comes back alone, acting clueless to the funny guys whereabouts.

As they all settle down, the blonde girl notices something on the boys hand and begins to stare to which the bullied boy looks down to his hands and realises the blood stains, so he slyly pulls his sleeve down. The game continues and this time the truth lands with the jock, the question being, ‘have you had sex?’ to which he replies, ‘yes, unlike ugly boy over there’ pointing at the bullied boy. Slowly, the boy starts to get angrier and claims ‘you’ll be next’, and disappears into the dark. As the rest of the group query what he means the funny guys dead body washes up from the lake.

With only three remaining in the group, the jock and the blonde start to panic and protect each other, whilst the geek chic girl remains silent. The jock and the blonde set out to find the bullied boy, leaving the geek chic girl to wait by her friend’s dead body. As the pretty couple walk nervously through the woods, slight noises worry them making the blonde girl scream without hearing her boyfriend being restrained by the bullied boy and dragged into the bushes. The blonde girl then realises she has been left to fend for herself and decides to just run to find the exit, however tripping on a branch and banging her head on a rock, knocking herself unconscious. As she begins to wake she tries to move her arms but is suddenly shocked that she is unable to, looking up to find her hands tied with rope to a tree. Inspecting her body she has come to the realisation that she has been attacked, covered in bruises and blood head to toe. As she struggles to escape, her screams are heard by the bullied boy drawing his attention to find his victim has awaked.

Rushing to her side, he hears her screaming her boyfriend’s name to which he replies, “He can’t help you now.” She attempts to haul herself up but fails, shouting at him, “what have you done to my boyfriend?!” Smirking to himself, he asks, “would you like to join him?” to which her face lightens slightly as she has false hope that her boyfriend is still alive. Taking this as a sign of approval, he walks slowly towards her still smirking pulling a knife from his back pocket. Before she has time to react he brutally stabs her straight through the heart, killing her instantly.

Unknowingly to the geek chic girl, she is completely alone at the lake with the bullied boy, her secret crush. However, on hearing the screams of the blonde girl she decides to leave her dead friends body to investigate only to find both the jock and the blonde girl tied to the tree, dead. As she quickly runs to escape looking back at her dead friends, she bumps into the bullied boy. Shaking with fear, he brings his hand up to caress her jaw line devoting his undying love for her. Seeing the knife in his back pocket, she realises the best thing to do is go along with it and embraces him tightly. She steadily takes the knife from his back pocket and strokes his hair with her free hand, distracting him from the hand that holds the weapon. Believing all is well and in the moment, she whispers in his ear, “Would you die for me?” he unconsciously replies, “yes.” With this she brings the knife to his jugular vain and quickly slits his throat causing him to fall to the floor gripping his throat.

Knowing that she could be framed for all the murders, she wraps the knife in the bullied boy’s hat and in a state of shock walks to the lake where she disposes of the weapon.


Key:

teenage friends
We chose to use teenagers because they are stereotyped to cause havoc and we would be able to interact easily with them.
lake

We chose a lake as the setting as this is a typical horror paradigm. It can be used as a weapon itself to drown or hide victims/weapons in, as no one can see what lies beneath.

promiscuous blonde, jock boyfriend, funny guy, geek chic girl, bullied boy

Having a promiscuous blonde as a character shows the typical character paradigm. The audience can predict that she will die along with her jock boyfriend and the funny guy who makes fun out of the bullied boy. The bullied boy becoming the killer is typical as it is due to revenge. We chose to have a geek chic girl as the audience will know that she is innocent and that she will be the final girl.

truth or dare

We decided the characters should play a game of truth or dare because the audience will know that a dare will go too far. It also creates a sense of fear because it is about the unknown as no one knows what they are going to be asked to do or answer. It is also a typical teenage game.

spend five minutes in the dark woods alone. However, after the time has passed

We chose another setting to be in the woods as this is a typical horror paradigm because no one can hear or see if anyone is in need of help. It is also a good place for people to hide behind trees.

hides the body in the lake

A lake is a good place to hide a body because no one can see underneath it.

sex

It is typical for teenagers to talk about sex as they are stereotyped to be obsessed with it.

hands tied with rope to a tree

Someone having their hands tied restricts their movements meaning they are unable to fight off any danger. It also makes the victim seem vulnerable because being tied up means anyone can attack her and being low down makes the killer seem much bigger and frightening. It connotes sexual representation and bondage.

knife

A knife is a typical prop paradigm as it is a very personal weapon. It connotes sexual representations due to the penetration of the knife.

caress her jaw line

The caressing of the jaw line is quite a sensitive area and so shows sexual representations. It is also very close to the neck which relates to horror movies about the supernatural such as vampires. The neck is the area a vampire will bite to kill their victim making it a vulnerable area.

slits his throat

This is a very gory and slow death making it a typical dramatic death of a horror film.

lake where she disposes of the weapon.

Disposing a weapon in a lake is a typical place to hide something as no one can see what is hidden underneath; this also allows the killer to remain hidden due to the lack of evidence.