Narrative

After a lot of thinking and research, we have decided to do a psychological horror based on a girl from a mental institution. Our idea is based on films such as Carrie, Shutter Island, Girl Interrupted and Gothika. We will use a teenage girl, aged 16 or 17, as our main protagonist who lives in a mental asylum and she runs away. It is a story from her point of view and therefore the audience sympathise with her. Her story is that she is neglected by her parents, very depressed, she self harms and her parents have lied to the police and social services and put her in a rehabilitation centre so they dont have to put up with her. Throughout the time in the asylum she has flashbacks of a fire, candles, running water, graveyards where she has visited a tombstone with a certain name on it and nightmares about a girl who is the same age but she does not know who she is. She escapes from the mental institution because she believes she is innocent and she wants to figure out what the nightmares and flashbacks are about. At the end, there is a twist and the audience find out that the protagonist killed her best friend in a fire and this is the girl that she keeps dreaming about. She started a fire in her best friends room while her friend was in the shower because she was jealous of her family life and took it for granted. Her parents put her in the mental asylum because they found out about the fire through her diary and she was there for 1 year and 3 months before she ran away. She had erased the fire and her best friend from her memory, it was in her unconscious mind.