Script

• LAWYERS GARAGE. NIGHT

• The twenty six year old twisted lawyer, MICHAEL GOLDBERG, is standing up with an angry look on his face as he is ready to begin torturing and interrogating the client who he believes is guilty.

• JOHNSON PAYNE, the unlucky client, is tied to a chair in his underwear, with a mysterious look on his face, and is being beaten up by Michael Goldberg.

• JOHNSON

What am I doing here? I haven’t done anything wrong?!

(emotional worried tone)


• MICHAEL

You know why you are here you prick!

(punches Johnson in the face)

You’re a murderer! And what goes around comes around.

(Continues to beat up Johnson and then begins to play with some tools he could use to torture him further)

• JOHNSON

I have a family! Why are you doing this to me? I haven’t done anything wrong!

• MICHAEL

Shut up Johnson! You think you can kill a woman and get away with it you scum?!

• JOHNSON

I didn’t kill her! I came to you to defend me but now you want to kill me you twisted prick!

(Angry tone to his voice as he gets frustrated)
(Tries to get out of the chair but is unsuccessful)



• MICHAEL

Your not gonna get out the chair dickhead! Your gonna die here!
(Begins to use some tools on Johnson)

• JOHNSON

(SCREAMS and still tries to get out of the chair)

• MICHAEL

(Laughs at Johnson trying to get out the chair and tortures him to his amusement)

• JOHNSON

NOOO! I have a family please …please… Don’t do this to me!

• MICHAEL

(Laughs)

Look at you, your pathetic, you took someone’s life and now you can’t take it so you cry about it.

• JOHNSON

(Cries and gives up hope)

• MICHAEL

(Turns away to look at the tools and picks one up)

You know what I hate most about my job Johnson?
Are the bastards like you that get away with it!

Preliminary

American Psycho

Patrick Bateman, a young, well to do man working on wall street at his father's company kills for no reason at all. As his life progresses his hatred for the world becomes more and more intense.
Patrick Bateman, lives Wall Street by day and his nights are spent in ways impossible to fathom. He's a soul-less, modern monster whose zealous materialism and piercing envy fuels his homicidal activities.
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

90 minute Synopsis

A lawyer who is a psychopathic killer, tortures and kills the clients that he believes are guilty, depending on the seriousness of the crime that they have committed. Despite being a psychopath, the lawyer is very good at his job, he always manages to get people off.
The beginning of the film shows his latest client to be tortured in the lawyers grotty garage, the lawyer is beating the man and interrogating him. The man manages to escape from the torture and goes on the run from the lawyer, who has to find him and kill him before the man tells anyone about the lawyer’s psychopathic side. The man can’t go to the police about the lawyer though as he is already facing a murder charge so he will have to fight against the lawyer himself. The man will also have to protect his family from the mad lawyer who goes after them. the layer manages to take the mans family hostage, there is then a chase to get the mans children back.

Target Audience

It really depends on the kind of thriller film. Like all genres, there are sub-genres and to really give an accurate answer to your question you would have to specify what kind of thriller film.

Silence of the Lambs and No Country for Old Men are considered the two best thrillers in recent memory, and they're rated R. Their target audience was probably for the young male adults.

Meanwhile, there are those thrillers that are border line horror films, such as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village. Since they're close to horror (and horror films target teenage girls), the demographic would be slightly different, probably younger and more female based.

And then there are legal thrillers (Fracture, Runaway Jury) and crime thrillers (Memento, Se7en) that target a more mature audience and classic thrillers (any Alfred Hitchcock film) that are rated PG, but are intended for adults.

But if you just need a target audience for a generic thriller film, I'd have to say the young adult demographic from 18-25. For our film we are aiming it at a 15-25 age range, as our film will be rated a 15 certificate we would be aiming it towards this segment.

2 minute Synopsis

The beginning of the film starts with an establishing shot of the grotty garage where the twisted lawyer tortures and kills his guilty clients. We hear a narrative of the lawyer saying “you know what I hate most about my job…are the ones that get away with it”. There is a close up of the mans horrified face as we see him tied to a chair in the garage. The lawyer is beating him up and interrogating him. The man somehow escapes and the credits begin once the lawyer has tried to hold him down.

Definition of a Horror

Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality.
Whatever dark, primitive, and revolting traits that simultaneously attract and repel us are featured in the horror genre. Horror films are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. The fantasy and supernatural film genres are not synonymous with the horror genre, although thriller films may have some relation when they focus on the revolting and horrible acts of the killer/madman. Horror films are also known as chillers, scary movies, spookfests, and the macabre.