Monday 14 February 2011

LH: DRAFT Treatment - The Dolls House

The Dolls House. It opens with flashes into a girls mind, making the audience unsure of whether these images are memories or pure imagination. It cuts away from the harsh images to a girl sitting motionless on a large sofa, with a ghoulish facial expression. A male voice is heard, a calming voice. The girl does not react but stares blankly into the camera. FLASH, FLASH, FLASH. Disjointed and cruel images parade across the screen, seeping information about the girl into the audience's minds.

India McAllister was more or less and ordinary teenage girl, until she moved into number 48. Resembling a dolls house, the house was one inhibited by a young girl and her dolls. After finding fractions of dolls faces, India's whole life begins to change. As if possessed, India begins having erratic behaviour.

Worried, her parents send her to a psychiatrist as a bid to get there daughter back. Dr. Coomber is a divorcee who was never able to have his own children. As the sessions draw on India only shows signs of increasing instability. It is up to Dr. Coomber to stop what is happening from happening. What do the writings on the wall mean? Why is the girl so violent? As attacks begin happening around India and her loved ones, someone must protect her.

But India won't be saved if The Dolls House has its way.

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