Treatment Analysis

Treatment: 

After having nothing to do a group of teenage friends decide to take a trip round to a local lake. The group of friends consists of a promiscuous blonde with her jock boyfriend, the geek chic girl and the bullied boy. When walking to the lake we see the constant banter between the group and the bullied boy by tripping him up and making virginal references towards him.

They find a spot facing the lake and decide to play a game of truth or dare. Here we see the bullied boy as an outsider of the group as he is positioned slightly away from the others. As the dares commence the bullied boy gets pressured to spend five minutes in the dark woods alone. However, after the time has passed the rest of the group panic, 
as he doesn’t come back, leaving the jock to go in search of him. Whilst the jock is searching for him, the bullied boy grabs him from behind the bush, stabs him
and hides the body in the lake, leaving only the remains of the blood. As the rest of the group wait anxiously for their arrival, only the bullied boy comes back alone, acting clueless to the jock’s whereabouts.

As they all settle down, the blonde girl notices something on the boys hand and begins to stare to which the bullied boy looks down to his hands and realises the blood stains, so he slyly pulls his sleeve down. The game continues and this time the truth lands 
with the promiscuous girl, the question being, ‘have you had sex?’ to which she replies, ‘yes, unlike ugly boy over there’ pointing at the bullied boy. Slowly, the boy starts to get angrier and claims ‘you’ll be next’, and disappears into the dark. As the rest of the group query what he means the jock's dead body washes up from the lake.

With only two remaining in the group, the geek chic and the blonde start to panic and protect each other. The blonde sets out to find the bullied boy, leaving the geek chic girl to wait by her friend’s dead body. As she walks nervously through the woods, slight noises worry her making her scream and panic. She decides to run to find the exit, however tripping on a branch and banging her head on a rock, knocking herself unconscious. As she begins to wake she tries to move her arms but is suddenly shocked that she is unable to, looking up to find her hands tied with rope to a tree. Inspecting her body she has come to the realisation that she has been attacked, covered in bruises and blood head to toe. As she struggles to escape, her screams are heard by the bullied boy drawing his attention to find his victim has awaked.

Running to her side, he hears her screaming her boyfriend’s name to which he replies, “He can’t help you now.” She attempts to haul herself up but fails, shouting at him, “what have you done to my boyfriend?!” Smirking to himself, he asks, “would you like to join him?” He walks slowly towards her still smirking pulling a knife from his back pocket. Before she has time to react he brutally stabs her straight through the heart, killing her instantly.

Unknowingly to the geek chic girl, she is completely alone at the lake with the bullied boy, her secret crush, not understanding where her blonde friend had got to. When suddenly bumping into him, he confesses his love to her. Seeing the knife in his back pocket, she realises he is the killer, and deciding the best thing to do is go along with his affections and embraces him tightly. She steadily takes the knife from his back pocket and strokes his hair with her free hand, distracting him from the hand that holds the weapon. Believing all is well and in the moment, she whispers in his ear, “Would you die for me?” he unconsciously replies, “yes.” With this she brings the knife to his jugular vein and quickly slits his throat causing him to fall to the floor gripping his throat.

Knowing that she could be framed for all the murders, she wraps the knife in the bullied boy’s hat and in a state of shock walks to the lake where she disposes of the weapon

Analysis:

local lake – Stereotypically isolated setting for a horror film

promiscuous blonde with her jock boyfriend, the geek chic girl and the bullied boy – Conventional characters for horror, we are able to predict from the set of characters that the final girl will be the ‘geek chic girl’

bullied boy – Stereotypical motive for killing/murdering

dark woods alone – Conventional location for a murder; silent and dark and away from safety.

However, after the time has passed the rest of the group panic, as he doesn’t come back, leaving the jock to go in search of him – Chosen as the first person to die because he is the main bully

the jock is searching for him, the bullied boy grabs him from behind the bush, stabs him and hides the body in the lake  - Stabs him, insinuating conventional knife use, and hiding the body in the lake is conventional as it is mysterious and unknown

this time the truth lands with the blonde girl, the question being, ‘have you had sex?’ to which she replies, ‘yes, unlike ugly boy over there’ pointing at the bullied boy – Further bullying to fully display the motive for his killings, and setting the blonde girl up to be the next predictable victim, because of her promiscuous views and ways.

noises worry them making the blonde girl scream  – Stereotypical horror scream, and conventional promiscuous girl as a victim

The blonde girl decides to run to find the exit, however tripping on a branch and banging her head on a rock, knocking herself unconscious – Determining her as a frivolous, irrational thinker which is stereotypical of the blonde promiscuous girls in horror genre

pulling a knife from his back pocket – Cliché horror weapon

When suddenly bumping into him he confesses his love for her. Seeing the knife in his back pocket, she realises he is the killer and deciding the best thing to do is go along with his affections and embraces him tightly. She steadily takes the knife from his back pocket and strokes his hair with her free hand, distracting him from the hand that holds the weapon. Believing all is well and in the moment, she whispers in his ear, “Would you die for me?” he unconsciously replies, “yes.” With this she brings the knife to his jugular vain and quickly slits his throat causing him to fall to the floor gripping his throat - Showing her to definitely be the final girl, as she is far more intelligent and has a strategy for escape, which is conventional of horror.

Knowing that she could be framed for all the murders, she wraps the knife in the bullied boy’s hat and in a state of shock walks to the lake where she disposes of the weapon – Again showing her intelligence and reason for being the ‘final girl’