Final Case Studies that Relate to our Style of Film & our Synopsis of Teaser Trailer

We have been inspired by two films that are different styles of film but link closely with our ideas, these films are "Shutter Island" and "Tormented".

Shutter Island
Shutter Island is a American psychological thriller that came out in 2010 and was directed by Martin Scorsese. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role as US Marshall Edward Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on the titled island.

Theatrical release poster

This film was such an inspiration to our plot as it is a period piece that gives nods to film noir and the horror genre which is what many of our concepts will attempt to follow but set in present day. It also pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock's directing skills as it holds many traits and Hitchcock produced many successful psychological thrillers throughout his directing career.
We also chose Shutter Island as an example to follow the conventions of as it was generally successful in terms of reviews it received, while one reviewer claimed "After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair."

Tormented
Tormented is a 2009 British horror-comedy film starring Alex Pettyfer as a schoolboy who is the main bully of the school. The film was directed by Jon Wright.

Original release poster

We drew inspiration from this film as we plan to have a similar narrative in terms of a death occurring then the ghost returning to take his revenge, this film was a close comparison that we were able to make, so we watched it to gain inspiration and took notes in order to be able to make our production unique but also sticking to the conventions of this style of film.
This was a good example of a film to base our production on as it received mainly positive reviews, Total Film described it as "A slasher for the Skins generation". With Empire calling it "cynical, gruesome fun" and rated it 4 out of 5 stars.

Synopsis of our teaser trailer
A teenager is driving a car, he then hits a child that runs out in front of the car, who is then killed. Then the ghost of the child comes back and haunts the man who hit him, he haunts him because the man drove off after he hit him and he did not own up to his collision with the boy.