film treatment

1. FILM TREATMENT
Samantha was the only daughter born into a wealthy
family. Her parents died when she was young and
since then she is lonely and on her own. Even when
they were alive they were always too busy with
themselves to give their daughter the attention that
she wanted. When she felt confused, lost or scared,
she did not have anyone to turn to for advice or
anyone who would lend her a shoulder to cry on.
ACT-1
The scene is set in a house. She is randomly sitting on
her table having tea, when she hears someone
whispering her name in her ear. She looks here and
there but was unable to find anyone. The scene now
shifts to the bedroom. Samantha is sitting on her bed
drawing a black hooded figure. Then she is playing
with the magnets when the phone rings. The magnets
drop from her hand. She picks up the phone but no
one speaks from the other side. She only hears
breathing sounds. The scene ends.

2. ACT-2
Things start taking a bad turn when Samantha starts
seeing the small boy in her house. One morning she
wakes up and is walking downstairs when she sees
the small boy in the balcony. As she sees him she runs
down the stairs as she reaches downstairs she sees
Foot prints in blood. She follows them and as she
reaches the end, she sees the same boy standing in
front of her. She screams loudly as she sees him.
ACT-3
The scene now shifts to the room. She’s standing in
her room in front of the mirror and suddenly she feels
like someone else is also in her room and she could
feel him. The boy whispers her name. She turns back
slowly and finds the same boy standing near the
window. She turns towards the mirror and sees ‘I’M
YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE’ written on it in red.
Samantha is so frightened that she runs out of the
room leaving everything as it is. The scene blacks out.
ACT-4

3. It’s the same night, and Samantha is sitting in her
room with her laptop. The only light falling on her
face is of the laptop. She types ‘Schizophrenia’ in the
search bar. She then sees the symptoms of
schizophrenia which are similar to those that are
experienced by her. She then realizes that she’s
schizophrenic. She keeps the laptop aside and goes
to sleep. Late at night, the phone bell rings and
Samantha picks up the phone. She hears someone
saying her name on the other side of the phone. She’s
so scared that she immediately puts the phone down,
hides her face in the blanket and goes to sleep.
ACT-5
After a few days she’s walking up the stairs at night,
when she reaches the middle of the stairs, she hears
the creaking sound of the stairs. She turns back but
finds no one. She moves further and she’s almost at
the end of the stairs when she hears a voice saying
“I’m watching you”. Her heart starts thumping loudly,
and she becomes very scared.as she turns back, she
sees the same boy standing on the stairs looking at
her. She quickly runs towards the room and shuts the
door. She slowly sits on the floor, with her head down

4. and weeping. When she looked upwards, she saw a
hooded figure coming towards her and as it reached
her, the hood was lifted by the figure and what she
saw was her own self. Then the figure changed into
the same old boy. She was seeing herself as a
reflection of the boy. She’s so confused and
frightened that she rests her head down on her hands
and knees and then when she looks up, the figure
disappears. She’s so tired of everything that she ends
up committing suicide by hanging herself.