Thriller Ideas

Idea 1 – A family of four are struggling with their money, the children aren’t being affected but the mother and father are finding it hard to supply to them. In order to get money they sell their fairly large house and downsize, moving to a different neighbourhood. The neighbourhood they move to is slightly less safe than the one they were living in before but this does not seem to be a problem for the people in that neighbourhood, thus they buy a house and live there. Unbeknown to them their next door neighbour is a psychopath. As soon as they move in the next door neighbour has his eye on the ‘new’ family of the neighbourhood. Throughout the film you see the psychopath plotting ideas in order to kill the children. Towards the end he captures one child and she goes missing, he fails to actually kill her. The opening sequence opens with the mother placing the children’s dinner on the table, there is a clock in the background to highlight the time (early as they are children). They have a pizza take away as there is not much food in the house as they have just moved in. There is crockery around wrapped in paper so the idea that they have just moved in is emphasised. Then a cut to the father in the study which has boxes in but the desk, chair and his laptop have been unpacked and he is doing some work. Then a cut back to the kitchen, the children and mother are very happy laughing and smiling. There is a window in the kitchen too and the man has walked around the outside of the house and stands still looking into the window at the children. There is a shot from outside the window looking in to show the audience that someone is watching the family but they do not know. It cuts there.

Idea 2 – A teenage girl about 17 is in a relationship with a man of 30 years old. She met him as she had a group of friends who were interacting with older men. Her and this man were very happy and enjoying their relationship. He meets the family and they ask him and their daughter to babysit the younger daughter, who is 9. The older daughter drives the parents to the restaurant they are going to. Back at home is the younger daughter and the man, he is watching her and unbeknown to the rest of the family, he used to be a rapist and had just come out of prison 3 years ago. The man rapes the child in the film and there is major suspence as she is sworn to secrecy about it and none of the family know. Thriller follows their story. The opening of this involves the 17 year old girl and the man driving home. They are playing music loudly and the camera follows their journey home. They are very fond of each other in the car whilst driving and the man is slightly over the top, this highlights his power over women. The journey home is fairly long but they then arrive home and there is a POV shot of the younger girl looking out the window of the couple walking towards the door, there is eye contact between the man and the younger sister and then the younger sister hides behind the curtain in fright. 

Idea 3 – A journalist has been assigned work for the New York Times. Her task is to write about the crime in New York. She was going around New York involving herself in high flying people such as politicians. Almost like the prohibition where police men and politicians got away with drinking, this was the same, but to do with drug crime. The opening of this in an the woman’s office where she is working on a computer, the desk is full of paper to highlight that she is a very busy woman. There is a knock on her on her door (she has her own office) from the boss. She is told that she has been promoted and they celebrate. The offices cheer for her. There is then an over the shot of her looking at her computer screen researching drug crime in America.

Idea 4 – There is a computer virus going around a town, which then leads to a major spread into the cities. This virus is killing many people and it happens when you go on your computer and it penetrates your eyes. Once this virus is in you in kills you with in 2 days. A man is all behind this, and someone is out to catch him but he does not know this. He is sat at his computer screen killing many innocent people via a computer, so technically he is a mass murderer. The opening sequence is set in the psychotic mans house, where it is night time and very dark. The camera follows round the corridors, as if it was someone else and goes very slowly. The man who is catching out the psychotic man is in his house. As the man approaches the kitchen, the psychotic man sitting in his kitchen eating dinner emerges. The whole of the opening sequence is in the point of view of the man who is stalking the psychotic man.