The ordinary “thing” we picked was a teddy bear. We ended up at this decision because we wanted to pick a childhood fear; something that everyone could sympathise with. Although children are not necessarily scared of an ordinary teddy bear, we added another childhood fear in order to heighten the horror factor in our original object: darkness. Fear of the darkness is vey common in little children and even most adults as the fear of the unknown triggers our primal instincts of survival. Rather than create a whole new monster out of nothing, we decided to bring our audience back to the past, placing them in the moment they felt most helpless and vulnerable.
Plot:
- Our protagonist is playing with his toys when his mother comes into his room to put him to bed.
- His toys are still scattered all over the room floor as he gets into bed.
- She turns out the light and leaves him in darkness.
- As his mother disappears behind the door so do the last few streaks of light.
- Our protagonist is left in the darkness with only a small crack of moonlight shining through the window. Now, his over active imagination begins to wander.
- The few toys illuminated by the moonlight seem to be staring at him…. watching.
- He thinks he sees them moving and blinking.
- He rises fro his bed in order to investigate.
- He slowly creeps towards the ominous toys. However, just before he can reach them, his mother bursts through the door.
- She questions her son on why he was out of his bed, to which he replies that he believed the toys were moving.
- She believes this is just a childish fear and assures him that he there is nothing.
- He gets into bed once again, now assured by his mother.
- She closes the door once again and leaves her son to sleep.
- As the protagonist is sleeping soundly, the camera has an over-the-shoulder shot of him sleeping from the teddy bear’s POV.
- Slowly, the camera begins to back out from the teddy bear, showing that the bear was wielding a large knife the whole time.
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