Treatment For My Horror Film

Treatment – The Babysitter


Act 1

1. Establishing crane shot of a large manor house. Camera pans around to the garden of the house. The scene in underscored with ominous music.


2. Cut to a middle aged man filling in a hole in a large flower bed. He is visibly tired. He reaches into his pocket and takes out a handkerchief with which he mops his brow. Cut to an ECU of the flower bed from which the hand of a dead body is protruding.

3. Cut to black background with the title ‘The Babysitter’

4. Montage of horrific images, for example teenage girls be brutally murdered, flashes of a creepy looking child and people disposing of bodies. The final image of the montage is a newspaper article about a teenage girl missing. The page turns and there is an advertisement for a babysitting job.


Act 2



1. Protagonist is in a café with a friend they are two pretty girls in their late teens (between 16 and 19) looking for summer jobs in the newspaper. They have spotted the babysitting advertisement and decide to apply.


2. Interview sequence (in the style of ‘Shallow Grave’). POV shots from the parents. The protagonist gets the job. Last line of the sequence makes a reference to the child being somewhat eccentric.


3. Establishing sequence of child. Camera tracks forward to the child sitting with his back to the camera; he is singing nursery rhymes. The child turns round as the music reaches its climax and we see his chalk white face and sunken eyes. Blood starts to pour from his eyes.


4. The Protagonist arrives for her job and is greeted at the door by the parents. She is shown around the house and taken to the boy’s room to meet him; he has his back to them and demands to be left alone.



Act 3

1. Protagonist is watching TV; child has gone to bed by this point. It is just like an average babysitting job.

2. Protagonist gets a phone call, but the person on the other end just breathes heavily down the phone. She thinks it is a prank so hangs up. She receives the call a few more times before becoming worried. She phones the operator to ask them to trace the next call. After the next call, the operator warns her that the call is coming from an upstairs room in the house.

3. Protagonist goes upstairs to investigate and is attacked by the child. After a lot of conflict (hide and seek – similar to ‘The Orphanage’) the babysitter manages to escape, barely alive.

4. Two years later we see the protagonist go for another babysitting job. She is shown around the house and is taken into the child’s room where she realises it is the same child that tried to kill her; he turns around and smiles at her. She screams. Cut to black.