Horror Treatment

Our next step was to prepare a treatment for our trailer. Below is one of our ideas.

Blackwood Asylum - Treatment

Charlie a 25 year old school teacher at the peak of this career has no worries in his life, he is very proud of this family his wife Sara and his son John. On the way back from the cinema, Charlie and his family are in a horrific car accident, were both his wife and son are killed as was the other car. Being the sole survivor of the accident Charlie is driven mad by guilt over the death of his family, he starts to lose his grip in life and is soon relieved of work after threatening a child. Charlie can no longer live in his house because the memory of his family is to strong.

He eventually stays with his parents Holly and Tom who live on the out skirts of a major city “Blackwood”. Still ridden with guilt Charlie tries to find ways to get his family back, he knows as much as the next person this is impossible. In this frustration he trashes his parent’s home and by accident sets it on fire killing his parents. Now with this added guilt of wiping out all of his family members he pleased insanity to the court that sentences him to life at Blackwood asylum. Charlie isn’t in the right frame of mind to care were he is going; he has no family members to co-sign his registration papers. He is swiftly taken to Blackwood asylum.

On his way to Blackwood Charlie is blindfolded, he feels the rhythm of the van that he was swiftly pushed into, bump up and down. He hears the squeak of the breaks and the grind of the tires on a gravel path. He is roughly pushed out of the van to the floor, in his struggle he is forced through the gates of Blackwood asylum and violently thrown into a cell were his blindfold is ripped off. A few hours later a man in a long white lab coat comes in and explains to Charlie that the asylum is a cover up and it actually a government facility for human medical experiments.

Charlie is exposed to an experimental chemical that gives him the ability to see and speak to the dead. He is able to speak to his family who tell him to get out of the asylum because the scientist have learnt more about the experimental chemical and are going to use it to kill him to extract the needed data to continue the experiment.

When the daily food supplements are deliver Charlie makes a runner out of the door, but before he could even make it out side he is shot down and dragged into the lab. Were they brutally murder him. The vital parts of this body that are infected by the experimental chemical are taken out and studied.

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