Thrillers - Stalker themed.

For our 2 minute opening coursework, we are basing it on a thriller/horror genre. It is important that I conduct research to understand the genre at a better standard than what I do already.

A very well known thriller is Scream. Scream is about a group of teenagers who are brutally slaughtered or approached by a mysterious killer in a Halloween costume. It is a very popular thriller because the killer is unknown, yet there are so many possibilities of who the killer could be. It then turns out that there is not just one killer, but two! The storyline has its audience hooked as the murderers are not revealed until the end, and it is not until towards the end that the audience find out there are two killers. This keeps the audience on the edge of their seat as many different people could be seen as the killer, it makes it very tense as the audience get drawn into the storyline and do not know who to trust.

My group have decided to base our two minute opening on a stalker-killer. There are not actually loads of films like this but there are films that relate to this. Some of these films being Prom Night, The Watcher, One hour photo and Scream.

Fatal Attraction is also another film that explores the idea of obsessive stalkers. In this film, a married man has a one-off fling with a woman who then becomes obsessed and doesn't allow it to end. The woman claims she is carrying his baby in attempts to make him be with her, she then temporarily kidnaps his daughter in hope to win back his affection. The obsessed woman becomes psycho and this type of stalker storyline is going to be portrayed in our two minute clip.

Sleeping with the enemy also portrays a stalker based storyline as a woman tries to go into hiding when when her husband turns into a violent maniac, but he then begins to track her down. It is worrying because he has turned so violent, it is very unpredictable what he is capable of.