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Film Title-
Delusion


Tagline-
'A Fair Face Hides A Foul Heart'


Logline-
Delusion is a character driven psychological thriller, about a young teenage girl who has a mental disorder and goes around killing innocent people. While her godfather, who she doesn't know exists, sets out to protect her from herself.


Duration-
Full film, 90minutes


Audience-
Age 15+, both men and women.
Our film will need to be a 15 due to strong violence and suggestive themes to do with death and murder. The audience that this film is aimed at enjoy going to the cinema to unpuzzle the story, they will have a laid back lifestyle and enjoy the cinema for a good night out with friends and family.


Synopsis- 
Daryl Black, a typical primary school teacher returns home from work and goes into his garage. Pulls out a journal and turns to a page with a young girl; Evie. He pulls out a loose picture of Evie and pins it to the wall next to a clock, and a picture of a woman, his goddaughter, willow. He pins the picture of Evie over another, unknown girl
At 12 O'clock Daryl goes towards a dark ally to follow Willow who is by herself and is unaware that Daryl is following her. Evie walks out into the ally and Daryl quickly strangles and kills her with a wire and quickly hides her but Willow drops her keys, sees and stands in shock. The night of Evies murder Willow cannot sleep and stays in her apartment all weekend as she fears she is being watched by a hooded man. 
For the next few weeks she isn't bothered by the hooded man, however one morning when she leaves her apartment to go to university and notices that the hooded man is watching her apartment but she continues on her way to university. During a lecture, she begins to hallucinate where she sees everyone around her become the strange man, she panics and runs home to find the hooded figure from her hallucinations is still outside her apartment. 
Looking out from her window she is grabbed from behind by a different hooded man. He pulls out a knife but Willow manages to take it off him and stabs him until he gives up. She pushes the intruder over the edge of her balcony and the other hooded man sees and runs to hide the body. Willows thinks the two men were working together to kill her. 
Over the next few days she has a serious of hallucinations where she thinks everyone is out to get her and either attacks or kills them. The hooded man always disposes of the body so she thinks he is sending the 'attackers' to her. She plans an attack on him for the next time he sends a killer. 
On her way to university she sees and hears people planning to kill her however once again it is a hallucination. 
Later that day while walking to her next lesson an old friend walks into her and Willow instantly thinks she is her next attacker and follows her throughout the day. 
On the way home in the alleyway she grabs the girl and drags her to the floor. The hooded man intervenes to stop the attack and lets the innocent girl escape. Willow turns and starts attacking him violently with stones and anything else she can use. 
Daryl gives Willow his journal, before he dies, from his bag that has information about her past and photos of other people who she recognises from her 'dreams'. She falls to the floor as she learns that she has just brutally murdered her only family member. Voices in her head tell her that the only way she will be forgiven is to kill herself. She picks some rope up she has hidden in her appartment in case another intruder was to come and kill her and ties a noose from her curtain rail. Before she jumps she see's Daryl in a hallucination and speaks her name.


Suggested elements-
The things that make our film different is that our antagonist is a woman and in most films it is a man. Also our main character, Willow, has a mental disorder that drives her to the edge and the film shows how severe this can be.


Budget- 
An average budget that is suitable for us.


Genre-
psychological Horror thriller