Treatment 2

Title: Enslaved

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes – 2 hours

Target Audience: Our film would appeal mostly to male mainstreamers aged between 15-25. This is due to psychological horror being a popular genre for young people because of the excitement and entertainment from the jump scares, scare techniques and thrill factor.

Certificate: 15, which allows our entire target audience to be able to watch the film, also meaning we can have a strong and loyal fan base. Previous studies have also shown that horror films are most appealing to teenagers and young adults. The film is also a 15 due to the violent scenes not suitable for younger viewers.

Distributor: Blumhouse Productions, as they are known for their high quality but low budget horror films eg. Paranormal Activity and Insidious
Suggested elements: Filming in the dark, a shot of a man using narcotics and standing in a pool of blood
Use of fake blood and hallucinations 

Story line: Nick awakes from his nightmares in a fitful tangle of sheets and presses his palms to his temple as he fumbles for around in the dark to reach his illegally prescribed narcotics to try and quell his vivid nightmares that plague him daily after the events of two months earlier. As he steps out of the covers, his foot slips on a pool of blood spilling from underneath his bed. Alarmed, he runs into the on-suite bathroom and scrambles to turn the light on. To be greeted by a mirror smeared in fresh crimson and a eerie woman dressed head to toe in black in the far corner of the mirror image even though nobody is there... He grins sardonically and laughs as he realises that the voices in his head are chasing him again. Urging him to kill.

2 months before: 

          Rose and Nick are happily wedded together and have finally made enough money to be able to buy a house together and start a family. The house is a little rundown and in an isolated area but the two of them are keen to pour hard work into painting and decorating the house so that the two can feel closer together. One night whilst Nick is late returning home due to working overtime he notices that Rose is not there. She was painting the fence before he left work and probably ended up working until late into the unlit dark therefore Nick runs into the house, grabs his torch and scourers the area to find her whereabouts. What he runs into is enough to mentally scar a man for an imperative lifetime. The secrets of fair Rose's death are sliced in to the rest of the film almost like a puzzle that the audience has to piece together to understand the ending. 

Present day:

            Faye awakes to her morning with a text from the shy young man whom she began speaking to online on a dating site. After a careful time planning and talking to each other, the two have finally decided to meet-up at a cafe with an equal distance between the two of them. She applies her make-up in a precise simple-but-cute manner and pins her hair into a sweet messy bun for a casual flirtatious look, finally applying a sleek sheen of lip-gloss before heading out to her car. She checks her phone again and realises that she's slightly late already. Hurrying up she finally makes it into the cafe. Nick is waiting for her and smiles at her, pointing out the menu and ordering two cappuccinos. The two are happily talking and everything seems to be going well until Nick begins to feel a twinge of schizophrenia wash over him. Eventually the voices get louder and louder and he sees a clearer version of the phantom figure, sharing the same beautiful features as the woman in front of him. "Hurry it up", she whispers into his ear and he can't stay still anymore. Nick coaxes Faye out of the cafe and leads her into a small alleyway where Faye believes things will get heated between the two. She pulls out her pocket mirror and her favourite flavoured lipgloss and begins applying until she catches a glint of something shiny in the mirror reflection. 

           Nick hacks into her multiple times with a pocket knife, and begins to saw multiple parts of her limbs off in a hypnotic frenzy whilst the negative entity laughs and laughs and laughs. He snaps out and comes to his senses, freaking out and wondering what to do. But 'she' calmly instructs him on what to do and eventually he comes back to his home, empty, barren and lifeless now that 'she' is not there. He lays out the body parts and begins experimenting on the now massacred Faye's face, cutting out the tongue and eyelids in particular. 

          Nick keeps tracking down and killing women who look strikingly similar to his late wife until he finally comes to terms with his madness. The voices get louder and he becomes afraid for his own life and therefore he seeks help from a fortune teller as the doctors can't help him, drugs aren't helping him and he feels like something is controlling him... The fortune teller immediately tells him to walk away and never come back after she sees the foreboding, terrifying presence behind him and later ends up contacting a high ranking priest and median to investigate further into the background history of the man. 

           His life is spiraling downwards and he begins pleading and trying everything to purge this presence from him resulting in a chaotic meddling into Christianity as a last resort to cleanse the blood of his hands and start anew. When he finally recieves help, they hold a seance to try and purify the spirit. She's enraged and tries possessing Nick. After a frightful experience with the near-death experience with the dead, it turns out that when the pair bought the house, it was already inhabited by a demon. Who then clung to Rose as a negative entity and in revenge for humans who have the joy of being born and loved, the demon (note: demons are never born human) then strips all of that away from both Nick and Rose. 

           Rose is freed from the spirits presence and spells out 'I will always love you' on the ouija board before she is able to cross to the next life and the film ends with Nick in tears, happy that the ordeal is over but so tormented that he ends up committing suicide and burns down the house - being engulfed by the flames - burning everything and making sure that the demon is finally expelled and cannot cause harm to any others. The film ends with a small photograph series montage of the future that could've awaited the married couple including photographs of their future children each photo with a blurry shadow in the distance. As the last photo is revealed a close up is a blurred figure, the figure is revealed to be the demon.