Film Plot Summary

My film is about a girl who’s younger sibling supposedly went insane and then committed suicide. Her sister wrote her letters, talking about footsteps behind her and the ‘invisible man’. The girl thinks there is something being covered up and that her sister was generally worried about someone following her. After a scary walk which only turns out to be her dog following her, having snuck out, the girl wonders if this was how her friend had felt during those months before she was put in the local asylum. Deciding to investigate, she starts at her sister’s Catholic boarding school. After researching the history, she find the school has repeated incidents of insanity and that somehow it’s connected to the asylum. With the help of nosy local report Adam Kale, she begins digging into the first event. When she returns home, she hears another student has been put in the asylum and goes to visit. After conferring with the kind doctor who oversaw her sister she sees the girl, who talks about a man following her and leaving messages on the wall but they’re gone in the morning.  Adam then contacts her, saying he’s tracked down one of the old staff. The man, a former nurse, tells her about a staff member who had thought it funny to torment the patients and was later arrested. An inquiry into the man’s whereabouts finds he was released and subsequently disappeared fifteen years ago. While trying to search the cold case records she finds a picture, it’s the doctor from before. She then gets a call from the girl and rushes to save her. She finds them on the roof, the doctor about to coax her in to jumping. He tries to play it off, saying he was trying to stop her. The girl says his real name, they struggle and when he tries throwing her off the roof, Adam appears and pulls him off when the police arrive thanks to Adam. 

The point of the opening is to show what we think is there but isn’t can be scarier then seeing what is there. How the mind plays tricks.

It fits into the convention of thriller because it has suspense in that the characters don’t know what’s going on leading to suspense, the constant sense of danger implemented by the opening and thrill of a mystery unsolved.