Our short horror film, yet to be entitled, centres a teenage girl attending a house to babysit a young child, however this no ordinary baby... Below, I have written a detailed synopsis of the short film in it's entirety. We thought this important as our choices and ideas regarding the narrative have changed several times, and now this is our definitive story.
A regular, naive teenage girl named Rose, around the age of 17, checks her voice mail to hear an eery woman's voice. The voice belongs to a mother, requesting Rose to babysit for her that night. The mother states that she is a friend of Rose's parents and has been told of her baby sitting duties. The mother asks Rose to arrive at 9pm and that her and her husband shall leave a key under the doormat for her. 'Mercy-Violet', the baby, will already be asleep so the mother informs Rose not to disturb her under any circumstances. Rose arrives at the strange house, confused as to why the parents would leave their baby unattended before their babysitter, whom they have never met, arrives. As she enters the house she is immediately startled as she trips on a rattle. She walks around the house, slightly bewildered at the weird interior, however goes to sit on the sofa and watch television. The television will only show a disturbing children's program, so she turns it off again and chooses a dusty book from the bookshelf. She begins reading the book and falls asleep, however is woken to the sound of crawling. Worried that the child has awoken, she gets up and rushes upstairs to check on it. Peering into it's room, she finds the child is not in it's bed; instead there is just a doll lying in it's place. Confused, Rose picks up the doll and calls out 'Mercy? Mercy?', believing the child to have escaped from her bed leaving her doll behind. Starting to panic more as the child cannot be found, Rose heads towards the phone to try and ring the parents in worry, however as she is walking down the stairs she notices something disturbing that she missed before when she rushed upstairs. There are several frames of 'family photos' - in which there is the mother, the father... and the doll that Rose is holding. No sign of an actual baby. In shock, Rose drops/throws the doll and jumps backwards in fear. Blood starts to appear around the baby and it turns its head to look at Rose. She screams and runs to grab her belongings to try and escape, however it is at that exact moment that the clock strikes midnight and the parents arrive home. Comments are closed.
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