Character Profiles

The Reverend

Born into a painfully strict Christian family, The Reverend was indoctrinated into the teachings of The Bible from an early age. His father, a miner, lost his job when The Reverend was 12 and began to spend more time at home. He was bitter and angry about losing his job and his son often felt like he was passive aggressively taking it out on him (His son). Nevertheless, The Bible told him to Honour his Father, so he accepted that his father knew best.

However, two years later, the 14-year-old - now set on joining the Clergy - came home from school to find his father in bed with the woman who lived next door. The boy and his father argued, then came to blows. The boy who would become The Reverend felt betrayed, and felt that the father his Bible told him to honour had defiled that same Bible.

Too young and weak to win, the boy fled the house and found his mother. He intended for them to leave together, but she left him and returned to their home, expecting him to calm down and join her in a few days. But the boy didn't return. He ran far away and completed his studies before joining The Clergy.

As he went about his duties as a Reverend, he began to recognise his father's hypocrisy in more and more of the members of his Church. At first, he was just disappointed. However, gradually, the rage began to build within him and when a woman confessed to him that her husband had done just as his father had, he snapped. He quoted her a Bible verse, and retired to his office to think. There he decided there was only one way to ensure the sinners in his flock paid their penance.

Force them to. Days later, the man whose wife had spoken to him turned up dead, his eyes replaced by Bible pages - both containing the Ten Commandments. Knowing he would be suspected, The Reverend fled. He decided the only way he could mend the ways of mankind was to brutally punish the worst sinners. He travelled the country carrying out his "Sermons".

It is two years later that he decides The Girl is in need of a lesson in the sanctity of marriage.

The Girl

The Girl was born into an under-privileged family and grew up feeling left out - all her friends had new clothes and makeup and got treated to all sorts of things by their parents. She grew jealous of her friends and the gifts and care lavished upon them by their parents.

Her own father spent most of his time working, and the rest drinking. Her mother was more concerned with her elder sister, who shared her mother's passion for writing. The younger sister began to feel lonely, unwanted and useless. One day though, whilst at a friend's house, she found herself alone with her friend's father. She noticed his eyes were lingering on her a little more than one would expect.

Slowly, she noticed more of her friends' fathers looking at her this way. Finally, she found out about on of her other friends' parents splitting up. The father had been cheating on his wife with a younger woman. The Girl's interest was piqued though when she heard all the things he had bought for his girlfriend. Suddenly, she knew how to get all the things she'd ever wanted, and feel more loved.

She began seducing her friends' fathers. Then, a teacher. Then any guy who she could lay her hands on. So frequent were her trysts, The Reverend noticed what she was up to very soon after he arrived in the area.

The Reverend was particularly enraged by The Girl because he felt she was luring men off the Path of God, subjecting more families to what he had gone through for her own selfish needs.

One night, after leaving the home of one of her most generous partners, she became aware she was being followed.

Hellraiser

The opening sequence start with the camera focused on a small golden box, where the natural lighting is from candles spread around the character holding it. The camera pulls back to show him focused on the box but as his head is bowed you can't identify the character. This creates a sense of mystique which encourages the audeince to keep watching. The rest of the room is pitch black which also makes the location unknown and scary to the audience.

The focus moves back onto the box again, it has been emphisised by the extreme close up of the hands moving pieces on the box. The slow moving hands suggest that the character knows as much about the box as the viewers do, which creates more mystery about both the character and the box. The golden box is obviously and important prop and can be noticed by the patterns that are printed on it, these could be ancient marks that hold a spiritual meaning.

Another extreme close up is used whenthe first part of the box moves out, this leads to a close up of the characters face showing that he is still curious about what is going to happen, however because of the position of his head and the lighting, it is still hard to notice much about the character. More light enters the room from blinds which slowly and mysteriously open up by themself, the white lighht which enters could be from the moon light which would be assosiated with light and fear, this is also backed up by the mist that raises from the floor when the light enters.

The edits speed up as more of the box opens and moves about which starts to build up tension to the viewers, the zoom also speeds up when focusing onto the box to emphisis its important connection to the events. More light enters the room at a quicker rate which suggests that something perculiar is about to happen.

A final close up is use on the box when the character presses the it into another position which connotes how important it really is, the markings that are shown when the box is pressed into place again could be ancient markings that have unknown meanings.

This is followed by two extremely quick edits of a final zoom into the box and a flash of light breaking out of it, the light isn't natural which would suggest it contains inhuman powers, it strikes at the camera which creates a threat to the viewers and to the character who is holding it.

Immediatly after this a number of hooks are shown being pierced into the characters flesh in a series of quick, extreme close ups, doing this emphises the event and the pain that the charcter has been put through, sweat and blood are seen running of the body and the hooks which again shows the agaony and also backs up the point that the charatcer was nervous using the box. The final shot is a medium close up of the charatcer screaming, as the connotes a mystical power it could be believed that the scream is a start of a metamorphisis and that the pain is becoming alot greater.

Like in the opening sequence we are going to try and manipulate agony felt by the victim, to do this we will also be using many close ups to emphisis the item of torture and the blood effects to bring out some gore to hopefully make some viewers cringe in fear.