Ideas for Horror Film Opening

Final Idea (subject to change):
The final idea for the horror film is that a girl is meeting up with her friend/roommate when her roommate is attacked and possessed by a demon in an alleyway. The girl who is not possessed hits her (punches her with a key in between her fingers) in an attempt to get away and manages to get back home, where she is finally attacked herself.
She later wakes up and feels ill. As she leaves the room she finds her friend in the bathroom and realises that her nightmare is actually a reality.

The opening will happen in the daytime, as this goes against the conventions of a standard horror film.

(The storyboard will be here when it is finished)


Scrapped Ideas:
1. Originally we were going to do a horror-comedy that involved something chasing people around a shop for the horror aspect and the reality that the enemy was a giant chicken for the comedy aspect. We decided against this idea because it would be very, very difficult to do in terms of editing, props and filming in a crowded area.

2. The second idea had the girl and her friend meeting up in town, only to have the friend possessed before she got there and when they do meet up, they were attacked. This idea is present in most other ideas, but has been tweaked as we worked along.

3. Here we had the girl and her friend meeting up in a shopping centre, with the friend being partly possessed in an elevator and attacking the girl when they got up to the car park. The next idea was similar to this one but with the elevator removed due to issues with people wanting to use it when we would be filming.

4. This time the girls had already met up and were in an alley way when the friend got possessed, evident by a scratch that mysteriously appeared on her arm. The girl had met up with her friend using a skateboard and was then going to hit her with it to deter her possessed friends attack. We kept this aspect but switched the skateboard out with a key, as there is a larger risk to hit someone with a skateboard than there is with a key that can be dropped/moved into someone fingers before the person playing the possessed friend got hit.

5. This idea is very similar to the final one, as the idea of the two friends meeting up during the opening was far better than having them already together. The only difference was that the friend who was possessed was to be similar to the behaviour of the witch special infected in Left 4 Dead.

(Witch video here)