a pitch on my idea of a horror film. by tony mutombo

2.  Our objective this year is to create a promotional
package to promote a new horror film.

3.  We distributed twenty questionnaires out to people
within the age group of 16 to 19.
 7 of those being male, and 13 of those being female.
 17 out of the 20 people that we asked, enjoy watching
horror films. They enjoy the adrenaline buzz they
receive from the experience.
 Slasher - 8
 Psychological - 6
 Supernatural - 2
 Possession - 4
 Gothic - 0

4.  Hospital - 2
 Forest - 4
 Haunted House - 4
 Mental Institute – 7
 Isolated House – 3
 Killer – 7
 Violence – 2
 Blood – 4
 Jumpy Scenes – 6
 Other - 1

5.  Happy clean ending with final girl standing victorious
over her arrested killer – 4
 Gory violent showdown between the final girl and the
killer – 5
 Cliff Hanger – 5
 Sad ending where we see the killer standing victorious
over the final girl- 4

6.  The target audience would either be a male or female
and aged between the 15 and 25.
 Well educated individual.
 They either work or take up a subject that allows them
to engage with others and use their imagination.
 High income and high levels of job satisfaction
 Work part time.
 They are also street smart, are passionate about having
a good night and regularly watch movies.

7.  The killers name is Jack Grimshaw.
 Quiet, resolute and exceedingly judgemental,
freakishly tall, attractive, dark and very masculine.
 But this is what the students didn't know about him.

8.  After witnessing the traumatic death of both his
parents, a then 6 year old Jack is found asleep on the
street by a group of women who take him back to a
monastery. After 2 years at the monastery he is
fostered by Phillip and May Grimshaw.
 As he grew into his teenage years, the pain of his
departed parents grew larger. A suicidal Jack is then
sent to a therapist by his foster parents in order to help
him climb out of his depression; Jack with nothing to
lose is advised by the psychiatrists to pay a visit to the
women at the monastery and look deeper into
Christianity as this is something he seems to be quite
interested in.

9.  Jack starts to pay several weekly visits to the monastery
which helps with his depression. Meanwhile his
interest in religion steadily grows. The Grimshaw's
decide to move away from Berkshire (the place where
Jack grew up and lost his parents) and into the big city
of London for a fresh start. At his request, Jack
transfers to the St Bernard's Catholic Grammar school
due to it being a catholic school, in order to continue
his education, and growth in faith.
 During his first few days at the school, jack realises
that the school isn't as holy as he expected it to be. He
instantly believes that the place is dripping in sin with
pupils behaving inappropriately and sinfully.

10.  Jack decides that it is his responsibility to rid the
school of sin. This provokes a killing spree from the
deeply disturbed and deeply religious Jack.
 Typical of a slasher we see teenage characters being
dispatched one by one by Jack.
 Jack will wear a cloak-like costume when he targets his
victims, one that is reminiscent of that worn by the
grim reaper.

11.  Whenever Jack commits a sin or takes a life he punishes
himself by carving a crucifix deep into his inner forearm
and then asks god for forgiveness. This where we came up
with the upside down crucifix as a “logo” or piece of
iconography to symbolise the film. We hope that people
would see the upside crucifix and automatically be
reminded of what they saw in the film.

12.  Lucas Till is the perfect representation of Jack
Grimshaw.
 Tall (around 6ft3)
 Attractive
 Masculine
 Clean
 Average everyday boy.

13.  Jack utilises different types of school equipment and
rooms to slaughter his victims, one weapon he does
use repeatedly would be a sharp kitchen knife that he
ends up thieving from the teachers staff room. This is
conventional to other slasher movies as the other
villains all murder their victims with knives, sharp
object or in Texas Chainsaw Massacres case: a
Chainsaw.

14.  Innocent, naive, intelligent and resourceful. She doesn't
have many friends at the school, and would prefer to be
alone rather than to associate and socialise with the rest.
Isn't acknowledged or noticed by the popular students.
 Singled out for her weird dress sense, music taste and her
“1990’s” fringe, she is ignored by the popular girls and
simply missed by the popular boys.
 She has a bad ‘gut’ feeling about Jack Grimshaw the second
she makes eye contact with him and is first to notice and
discover that he is responsible for the missing students.
Attempts to tell the others about Jack but nobody listens as
she is labelled the “weird kid”. Been a pupil at St Bernard's
since year seven yet many pupils don't know her name.

15.  The ideal final girl would have the appearance of
“Jennifer Love Hewitt from I Know What You Did Last
Summer”.
 Fringe
 Computer
 Disinterested

16.  We got the name Jack GRIMshaw from the GRIM
Reaper. Just like the grim reaper, Jack wears a black
cloak with a hood and causes the death of his victims.
Jack gains this ‘Angel of Death’ persona through his
heavy religious beliefs and also his own, as he does
believe that he is doing good in ridding the school of
sin, but in also in the gory way he kills his victims.

17.  Catholic Monks would also be a source of inspiration
as Jack got his monk costume from when he was
younger and living with nuns at the monastery. His
strong religious beliefs would replicate those at St
Pachomios.

18.  Silas is a fictional antagonist character in the 2006
movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’, he is an albino monk of
catholic faith, who practices sever corporal
mortification. We wanted Jack to replicate Silas due to
it not being a formality in slasher movies, instead of
making the killer a delusional/mentally unstable
character, we decided to make him one that is highly
religious, but one that loses his mind when he realises
that the real world isn't what its suppose to be. We
took Silas’ character made him extreme.