Thriller treatment

Thriller Treatment

Synopsis:

The first shot is of a girl sitting in her room with her earphones in doing her homework on her bed. Then you hear loud shouting so the girl removes her earphones and proceeds to walk downstairs to see what's going on. In the kitchen is her step-brother and her mum having a huge argument, as she walk in through the doorway she looks at her mum who looks scared and her step brother who has a knife in his hand low at his waist, when he sees her he puts the knife down and barges past her outside the door.

The scene after that is then following the brother. You start to understand his relationship with his step-mother and the hate and resentment he has towards his step family as both have, In his mind, taken his dad away from him. The camera is shot as if you are the brother and looking thorough his eyes the entire time. He visits a cemetery and the audience then realizes that his mother is dead so there is a feeling of isolation surrounding the boy who doesn’t like his new family and has grown apart from his dad due to this. 

It then cuts to the sister again; she gets in from school and walks through the door. She hears weird noises coming from her step brothers room so she slowly approaches, music increasing and the sounds coming inside increasing as she gets nearer and nearer. Suddenly the music comes to a stop and the brother suddenly walks out his room looking suspicious and then looks at her and starts laughing in a sadistic manner. The girl is scared and goes to her room and locks the door, the noises from her step brothers room start to continue. 

The next scene is the mum, dad and sister all sitting at the table and the brother walking in as they all look up. The dad then speaks of how he is worried about him and wants him to seek help. The boy, feeling isolated more than ever, runs up to his room and locks himself away. He isn't seen and cant be removed from his room for the next couple days, the noises from his room starting up again.

Finally the parents become worried and break the door down to reveal his room covered in pictures of his mum and younger pictures of himself and his previous family before his mum died, all individually nailed to the walls and ceiling. At the Centre of his room are two large images of his step mum and step sister, much larger than all the other photos of him, his mum and his dad. Scribbled over the top of the picture of his step sister is a giant letter A in red pen and on the mothers a picture of a syringe. 

Next morning the sister is in the kitchen alone getting ready for school, she pours herself some milk in her cereal and starts to have bad reactions. She is rushed to hospital, it is found that inside the milk was acid which is slowly causing her internal system to break down, revealing also that the A scribbled on the picture stood for acid. 
Next scene mother is by her side in hospital on the phone to her husband, the conversation is cut short by her turning around and seeing her step son in front of her, she says his name in shock and almost at the same time he sticks a syringe in her neck and watches her fall to the floor with a smile. This explains the picture of the syringe over the mothers picture also. He is looking at his dying step sister and mum and smiling, the door opens suddenly and the dad walks in. He starts crying and shouting as he doesn’t understand and the son starts shouting as well and explaining, breaking down inform of him and expressing his feeling of abandonment and depression. The conversation is heated and the dad is being forced backwards by the proceeding movements of his son, before the son can think he shoves his dad out the window and you see him fall to the floor and die. The son turns around and collapses to the floor, is now completely alone. The police rush in and ask him to put his hand in the air, he follows sobbing knowing that he will spend the rest of his life in prison with no one to visit him.