The Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper as a horror film.

Four characters: Dr. Thomas Wherts, Camilla Wherts, Nurse, ghostly child (aka William "Billy" Wherts), Older Billy Whertz.

Miscellaneous characters: soiree guests.

The Wallpaper

By Kristoffer Martin

Synopsis: A woman, the wife of Dr. Thomas Wherts is thought to be Hysterical in a "modern" day setting (Victorian age mentality) and her husband, as the doctor prescribes bed rest. The unnamed nurse is the only human contact after this while Camilla is cooped up in the room. As she falls deeper into depression and a state of cabin fever, reality seems to fall apart around her, and her worried and stressed mind begins to imagine things, she eventually falls prey to her own imagination, and acts out against her husband.

Note: this film would be heavily dependent on the actor for Camilla. In hierarchy of character importance: Camilla, Billy, Nurse, Dr. Wherts.

Dress/costume: Dr. Wherts wears a three piece suit, is tall (between 5'10" and 6'2") is mid-forties. Camilla is in her late thirties, wears mostly a night gown/pajamas of some form, the Nurse is a modern nurse, probably general clothing (jeans, blouse), (A more traditional nurse-nurse Cratchet like- would also work.) Billy is in a grayed shirt and shorts, around 8 years old, 3'5"-4'5" tall, white powder make up dulls the face, while dark features, like; hair, eye line, eyebrow line, are darkened finely with makeup pencil.

Older Billy is in military formal wear, has short cut brown hair and is around 6' in height. Muscular, not overly so.

Setting: In an old house (particular city is arbitrary) there is a bed bolted to the worn wood floor in the center of a room, straps with Velcro cuff links dangle on the wall to either side of the single bed, and a darkly curtained set of locked French doors lead out onto a balcony. In the far right corner is a crib, it too is warn and old. Dust has covered the railings and the blankets are rumpled as they were left from the last time they were used. The distinct smell of urine fills the room. A small chest of drawers, are partially open with boys clothes hanging out, is in the far right corner-from first person POV from bed, to the right of the door- a small child's lamp sits turned off and unplugged, the cord is neatly bound with tape on top of it. The walls are covered in a dingy, dry, falling apart wallpaper blue with yellow stripes, and ducks (or some once playful animal...) Scuff marks on the floor can be seen where the crib was moved back and forth, and a small pile of aging toys are in the corner. The door to the room is painted yellow, the paint is chipping and the bleached unfinished wood underneath is showing. Claw marks below the level of the doorknob are visible, as though someone picked at the paint.

Props: old toys, "pills" (tictacs), old wood crib, old bed able to be nailed to floor-wood frame- a room with wood floors and walls and a door that can be destroyed without issue-preferably in a remodel project that can be rented/borrowed. Straps and cuffs, really bad children's wall paper. The cheaper the better. Plastic/rubber clear shower curtain, general materials for building a false wall.

Foyer: Two tables, with yellow flowers (lily and tulips), main room: sparse furnishings two chairs a long table a day-bed sofa, rug, a few lamps~1940s furnishings pre-modern era.

Camera angles: angle1; facial view of character, mid-zoom. angle1.1 close zoom, angle2 wide pan; two or more actors. angle2.2 like angle1.1 but with more than one character, foreground background shot. angle3 first person POV, angle3.3 close third person "camera behind the person" view, angle 4 cut to long distance 3^rd person POV shot-like angle 2 long zoom. **angles are only suggestions**

Lighting and Characterization: following in the tradition of film noir this film will have only the color yellow, and is otherwise black and white. Objects that are yellow will retain their color, as well as light sources.

Part I; Scenes: 1 & 2

00:00:01-00:00:15 Intro: (authors note: minute increments are given for approximate time frame)

Outside the bedroom door, Dr. Wherts is speaking to the Nurse. Zoom in from stairway and around dark hallway corner to point where both are visible. Whispered voices become clearer.

00:01:00Dr. W: (in a whispered tone; angle one, the Dr.'s face) She is not to leave this room. Her madness is unsettling and I'm not sure I can handle her.

Nurse: (in same tone; angle one-pan out to angle two showing both persons) Sir, I will do my best, but she's demanding of me. She's bored you see.

Dr. W: (in a rising tone) Bored...she has toy's to play with doesn't she? (pause) Bring her food at noon, and give'r the codeine pills then. She needs rest, peaceful rest...no one is to disturb her. If she asks about our son, she doesn't need to know. No stress. Do you understand me?

00:02:30 Nurse: (Looking at the door; angle 2.2 side of face looking at door-panned from two person view to front stage left Dr. Wherts out of focus in the back) Yes sir, she's sleeping now, I'll bring her food

(fade, camera angle one, looking at the door from Camilla's POV, steadily rocking back and forth on the bed.)

(Camera pans from left to right showing the room; the only light in the room is ambient, coming from the slits and openings from behind the curtain. -Credits and title here- subtle, white on left corner "the wallpaper" clean, fade in credits one at a time in same position; following First Person POV, Camera follows Camilla to the French doors curtains and peers through them to see Dr. Wherts leaving. As soon as the car/transport is out of sight she opens the curtains fully just in time for the camera to pan left to see the Nurse come in. Camera angle 4 cuts to third person from across the room near the crib)

Nurse; (Entering through the door, carrying tea and toast on a wood fold out tray) Mrs. Wherts, you should be in bed, the Doctor says you need bed rest, peace and quiet. Come on over here, (Nurse moves to Camilla and helps here back to the bed, cut to angle 4 from door way). Have some tea, toast (the nurse gestures to the tray, plastic mugs and a metal thermos stand next to a plastic plate with pre-buttered toast, and two gray blue pills sit in a small plastic dish; turns and closes the curtains gain. The only light in the room is ambient, coming from the peeks of light coming from the curtain.)

Camilla: (prodding a piece of toast: camera angle 1 ) When will I get to see my son?

00:03:30 Nurse: (camera angle 1 remains on Camilla, nurse is out of frame) Soon, Mrs. Wherts, soon. The Doctor says soon and not to worry about him, he's fine.

Camilla: Are you sure, really (she reaches out and grabs the nurse's hand which is resting on the edge of the tray. The action is sudden and the nurse reacts by pulling away. Cut and pan-angle 4 from window)

Nurse: (cut to camera angle 1 nurse's face) Yes, I'm certain. He hasn't a reason to lie. Now please drink your tea. (she pours the tea, it's luke warm, into a plastic mug).

(Camera cuts to angle two, mid-zoom; Camilla takes a piece of toast and chews it slowly while the nurse begins to stack the toys under the crib. She places a stuffed bear with a yellow tie and eyes into the crib and humorously covers it with a blanket. Angle 1 on the bear before cutting back to angle 4)

Camilla: (Speaking with mouth full of toast) Why do I have to have the curtains shut, I can be in bed and still enjoy the sunset, can't I?

Nurse: (Camera angle 2.2, Camilla in background out of focus, focus changes with speaker from Nurse to Camilla) Doctor Wherts thinks it maybe too much stimulation, all the things outside. He said peace and quiet missus. peace and quiet. Well then, (turning from the crib) that's all neat now. Are you finished?

00:04:50 Camilla: Yes, maybe next time can you bring jam instead?

(Nurse walks to Camilla as she speaks; camera angle 2)

Nurse: Don't forget the pills missus, they'll help you sleep.

Camilla: (Camera angle 1 on Camilla; looking weary) Yes, right, help me sleep. They certainly do that. (She takes the pills with a swig of tea)

Scene 3: black screen transition.

00:05:15 (Angle 4: Camilla is restless, the room is dark except for the dull light coming from outside. Her face is lit by a sliver of light which cuts across her face illuminating her right side, while leaving the left dark. She twists back and forth before settling her gaze on the crib; angle 3.3, we see the crib move slightly, the wall paper seems to be moving. And a bubble forms below the wall paper and "crawls" up from right to left, from crib to ceiling.)

(Angle 4) Camilla: (whispering) whose there? (no response, its quiet; she looks back and forth from the door to the crib.)

Camilla: (in a stronger voice) whose there?

(Angle 3.3, Camilla is looking straight at the crib)

Unknown voice (ghostly child; Billy-disembodied): Mommy...mommy where are you?

Camilla: I'm here baby... where are you?

Unknown voice: Here mommy...here. ( from angle 3.3 cut to angle 2 zoom on crib; the voice seems to pinpoint to the crib)

00:07:00 (Camilla stands and approaches the crib and the bubble reappears[1], cut angle 4, camera is at the door, the light is fading and moving with her from the window-as though a car is rolling in-behind her is the ghostly child the same sliver of light passes over his face, she is unaware of the child as she approaches and touches the bubble in the wall paper. As soon as the bubble is touched all light instantly disappears.[2])

Scene 4

(angle 3.3 Camilla opens her eyes to a purple blue sky, birds are chirping, and the sun is just rising above the tree line. She is sprawled out on her back in the grass of the front lawn. The French doors of her room are open, just visible from where she is through the cast iron guard rail on the small terrace they open out to. The dark black out curtains are waving gently in the morning wind. Shift in camera, angle 3.3 to angle 2-The Nurse looks through the wide open French doors and out to Camilla.)

Nurse: (yelling) Missus, how did you get out there?

Camilla: (props herself up onto her elbows; laughing loudly-almost manically-a confused frustrated laugh) I don't know.

(The Nurse closes the doors and then the curtains a few moments later comes out the front door; she hurries over to Camilla-angle 4 pan to angle 2 from French doors to front door, cut to angle 3.3 on Camilla looking towards the front door as the Nurse approaches-shift to Angle 2)

Nurse: come on, up with you, Missus, we need to get you to bed.

Camilla: (annoyed) No...no I don't want to go back to that room.

Nurse: But missus, you must. It's what your husband told me to do.

Camilla: Screw my husband, I...(she breaks off as she sees Dr. Wherts coming out of the front door.)

Dr. : (angle 1 on Dr.) Camilla, darling, what are you doing out of bed?

(Camilla looks at the ground, almost childlike, her conviction gone.)

00:08:00 Nurse: (in a condescending motherly tone) I'll take her back to the room. It's certainly been a busy morning hasn't it?

(the Nurse and Camilla walk past the Doctor who is standing to one side of the door. Camilla looks to him, their eyes lock, Camera angle 1 Camilla cut to same angle on the Doctor. A brief look of malice appears at the point of their eyes locking before the Doctor turns to leave.)

Doctor: (speaking over his shoulder) Make sure she doesn't leave again, if you have to use them.

Nurse: Is that really necessary?

Doctor: Absolutely, we don't want her injure herself.

(The nurse nods and helps Camilla into the house. Camera angle 4, pulls back and pans outside into and then through the French doors just as Camilla and the Nurse enter.)

Nurse: Camilla, we still have some breakfast for you, if you want it.

Camilla: (as she makes her way to the bed) No...no I'm not hungry.

00:11:00 Nurse: (smiling) alright, I'll bring up lunch in a few hours.

(Camera angle 1.0 on the Nurse as she leaves the room and shuts the door, the camera lingers on the yellow door for a moment before cutting to Camilla same angle. The shadows in the room are mute with the early morning light coming in from the dislocated curtains. She is staring out of the French doors.)

Camilla: (speaking out loud to the room) Why won't they let me see my son?

Unknown voice: (it's like before, the voice comes from nowhere-almost ambient) Because they don't want you to know mommy...

Camilla: (turning to the voice, quickly focusing on the room) What? To know what?

Unknown voice: What you already know...where am I mommy? Find me ... find me

Camilla: Where are you? I don't know...I...(she's almost crying now, not out of grief but out of frustration.)

00:14:00 (Camilla gets up from the bed and wanders the room, approaching the wallpaper where she saw the bubble before and begins to pick at it.)

Camilla: (Camera angle 1.1) Stupid wallpaper...disgusting old wallpaper. (She moves around the room picking at the wallpaper here and there searching for the voice.) Tell me...where are you...where?

Unknown voice: Come find me mommy...

(Camilla opens the curtains wide and pushes the French doors open, for the first time the yellow glass doorknobs are visible. A line of yellow tulips winds along the sidewalk and around the right side of the house. An empty trellis is next to the balcony, matched in color to the siding of the house, barely visible. Camilla climbs down this trellis, reaches the path and follows the path of flowers.)

Unknown voice: Almost there mommy...

Camilla: Billy...mommy's coming...I'll find you

(The pathway leads to two yellow doors that open into the cellar.

00:20:00 Nurse (knocking and coming into the room) Camilla, it's five missus.

(Camilla turns and looks to the nurse from the French doors; the wallpaper is peeled around the bed, yellow flakes are all over the bed and one of her hands is bloody where a fingernail has ripped off. The nurse rushes to her bedside and pulls out some gauze.)

Nurse: (Angle 1.0 on Camilla's face, which is blank, shaken) What have you done, missus? (she raps Camilla's fingers and pulls the covers up to see how much blood stained it.)

Nurse: Missus, you shouldn't... Camilla, these are just ruined. Let's get you dinner while I clean up this mess. (Camera angle 3.0 on door, from POV of Camilla: the nurse leaves and returns briefly with a tray of food that she had left out in the hall. Setting it on the end of the bed she leaves and returns one more time with a brush and dustpan.)

Nurse: Please eat Missus, you need your strength. Sit up please, so I can clean this clutter.

Camilla: Where's my son, where's Billy?

Nurse: Missus, don't you worry about Billy, he's fine.

Camilla: Why do you keep saying that, have you seen him, have you? How do you know?

Nurse: I...I don't know, the Doctor says he's fine and I trust the Doctor. Don't you trust your husband?

Camilla: (looking away from her) I don't...I don't know that I should.

Unknown voice: (in a forceful deeper voice) That's enough...

Camilla: Why is that enough?

Nurse: What's enough?

Unknown voice: You can't trust her...don't let her know.

Camilla: I can't trust...no it's nothing.

Nurse: Camilla eat your food, take your pills, I'll be back.

00:30:00 Unknown voice: (in original childlike voice) Don't take the pills mommy.

Scene 5

(Camera angle 1.1; the Nurse is on the phone speaking to the doctor, she's in the hallway outside the door of Camilla's room.)

Nurse: I'm worried, she's asking more and more about Billy. Isn't there anything I can tell her, any new news?...No...nothing...just that he's fine. If she gets out of hand use the cuffs? I really don't think it will come to that. I...uh...right, yes sir. Yes she's taken her pills. The only odd behavior she's exhibited is peeling away at the old wallpaper. No she hasn't gone out....Okay, I'll make sure she stays in the room until you get back.

(The nurse places the receiver back in the cradle, the camera follows the receiver and ends the scene focused on the phone.)

Scene 6

00:35:00 (Camera angle 4, from the French doors, Camilla's food is in the foreground on the bed, which is messy, the camera follows along the wall where finger width strip of the wallpaper is torn running the length of the wall from the bed to the crib. There is also a trail of blood running parallel to the strip on the wall. Camilla is now holding the teddy bear in her arms.)

Camilla: (singing softly enharmonically) Sweet little boy, little soldier boy, come home my brave boy...

Nurse: (Entering through the door, camera angle 2.2, focused over the shoulder of Camilla on the Nurse) Camilla? Mr. Whertz wanted me to tell you that we're hosting a party of all of your friends in a few days. If you're up for it, he'd like you to join them downstairs. It's formal wear, so he's ordered a new dress just for you.

Camilla: (same camera angle; holding the bear and cooing at it as if it were a child) That'd be nice, a change of scenery.

(Camera angel 4 from French doors: the Nurse picks up the uneaten food on the tray and leaves hurriedly, purposefully not noticing the long rip in the wallpaper)

Camilla: (Camera angle 1) She's gone...she's gone...come and see she's gone and gone and gone.

Unknown voice: (in an almost teenager brat voice, no longer the young child's voice) Yes mother...yes she is gone.

Camilla: (same camera angle, she is spinning slowly looking from one corner of the room to the next) Where's my little boy? Where's my mommy-mommy?

Unknown voice: I haven't called you that for a long time mother...come find me, find me and you'll know.

00:40:00 (Camera angle 3, from Camilla's POV, she stops on the far wall with the crib next to it, it's rippling with bubbles bulging behind the wall paper. The room in this POV is dark except the yellow lines of the wall paper and the long red strip of blood. In same camera angle, Camilla walks up to the wall, placing her now noticeably bloody right hand against a bubble.)

Camilla: Are you in there, behind there...playing with me, toying with your mum...come out.

Unknown voice: Come find me...find me (almost sing song now, the child voice, the teen voice, and woman's voice) find me...find me...find meeeee...

Camilla: (cutting camera angle 2 from the French doors) No...no...come out of there...come out of there this instant...(She claws at the wall paper on this wall, clawing at the bubbles.-The light from the French doors, still covered by the curtains slowly dims leaving her in darkness again, it seems to fall as though it were a sunset. Slowly sinking into the floor.)

Scene 7

(Angle 3.3, Camilla is in the garden again, she is slowly moving towards the cellar doors, which are still the cracked yellow paint. As she reaches for the doors, to pull them open, cut scene, camera angle 2, she is trying to reach up towards the ceiling in her room, but her arms are cuffed. Light is pouring in through the gaps in the curtains and her eyes are wide open.)

Nurse: (entering through the door carrying a box, camera angle 2 from crib) Missus, you shouldn't struggle like that you'll only hurt yourself.

(Camilla appears to snap out of her delusion and her arm lowers.)

Nurse: (setting the box down at the foot of the bed, a bright yellow ribbon is tightly bound around the box.) Please now, if I release you would you please open this and behave? The Doctor has gone to great lengths to assure your guests that you are perfectly fine, and we don't want to think your husband is a liar, right?

Camilla: (nodding, relaxes and waits for the nurse to release her cuffs) What is it?

00:42:00 Nurse: (while releasing Camilla) your dress for the soiree. Your husband has another surprise for you too.

**authors note: here I'm now switching to a duel format to explain what is really happening versus what Camilla is seeing. In this case both parts would be filmed and meshed as I show below. All scenes from Camilla's POV are in her POV with camera angle 3, while what is really happening will have various camera angles. Because of the duality some scenes will be shown a second time.**

Camilla: Shouldn't I wear a veil...it's a...

Nurse: Don't be silly, it wouldn't do for you to wear one, not to a party.

00:45:00 Camilla's POV (Camilla is dressed in her yellow dress, which stands out against the black and white background. She sees the nurse dressed in a black skirt and blouse in front of her, leading her down the stairs to the foyer. There are several people talking, and the words are muffled as if in mass. She hears the words son and battle picking them out of the din of the conversation. Reaching the base of the stairs there are yellow lilies and tulips in vases, placed parallel to each other. One on a long slender table next to the door and the other on the telephone table which is next to the stairs.)

Couple one, husband: My condolences, he was a good boy.

-Wife: We were all saddened by your loss.

Camilla: Thank you for coming and your warm wishes.

-Reality POV (Camera angle 2: Camilla is in her yellow dress as in the previous description, only the Nurse is dressed in her usual frock and the guests are not in wake attire but evening ware. )

Couple one: husband: I'm so glad to see you're up and about, we were getting worried.

-Wife: Your husband is waiting in the main room, everyone's been waiting for you.

Camilla: Thank you for coming and your warm wishes.

(Camera angle 2, cut to Camera angle 1 on Dr.: Dr. Whertz comes to the foyer to meet Camilla and the Nurse, he's in a tuxedo, a yellow and black striped bow tie stands out and his hair has been pulled over to one side as a comb over; Cut to Camilla POV; to Camilla he looks much the same except he is in a black business suit.)

Dr. Whertz: Ladies, would you please come this way, there are a few people who'd like to meet you Camilla. (Dr. Whertz smiles briefly.)

(Maintain Camilla's POV first, cut to Camera angle 2 on the group of officers as Dr. Wherz introduces them*-Dr. Whertz leads the way into the main room, a large moderately decorated room with many guests and several men in military suit, a young man whose lapel is decorated with several medals sits speaking to a young woman as they approach; to Camilla the scene is much the same except a darkly hung photo in a mediocre frame is seated on a tripod in front of a long table. Yellow flowers are on the long table behind the frame, which appear in both the reality POV and Camilla's POV)

(Camera Angle 2) Dr. Whertz: Camilla this is Colonel Geistler, Lieutenant Wight, they're Billy's fellow officers.

(cut Camera Angle 1) Col. Geistler: I'm very pleased to meet you Mrs. Whertz, your son is a fine soldier. We're here to present him with a medal of honor, just don't tell him yet. (Geistler winks at Camilla)

*Switch to Camilla POV*

Lt. Wight: I'll miss him as my lead man. He's had my back in so many...

Geistler: Don't remiss to Mrs. Whertz, she doesn't want to hear about all the close shaves you two've had. She's a delicate woman...no need for blood and gore tonight.

(Billy comes into view after ending his conversation with the girl. He appears before his mother, while still in Camilla's POV. To her he appears to be standing right next to the picture of him for the wake and the picture is finally clearly him.)

Billy: Mom...I'm so...are you doing okay? (He has his arms outstretched to embrace her.)

Camilla: No...no you can't...get away from me (she is pushing away from him) stay away from me you imposter, fiendish ghost...I've had enough of you. Your torment, every day in that room, come find me come find me you say...

(He approaches her bewildered just in time for her to slap him across the face with the full force of he left hand. Switch from Camilla's POV to Reality POV; camera angle 2) Dr. Whertz, the Nurse, and two other guests rush to restrain her, and they slowly pull her upstairs. The joyous crowd has stopped its rumbling to look on concerned and puzzled. Camilla is still screaming obscenities as she is dragged away)

00:55:00 Scene 8

(Camera angle 2; Camilla is in her room, we see it for the first time in artificial light. The nurse has entered ahead of Dr. Whertz to unravel and plug in the lamp. Camilla is still struggling trying with all of her might to not reenter the room. Once she is finally inside the Dr. looks to the Nurse who ushers the others out and back down to the soiree leaving him and Camilla alone.)

(cut Camera Angle 1)Dr. Whertz: What was that? Are you trying to embarrass your son, me, in front of all of those people?

(cut Camera Angle 1)Camilla: (in a crazed voice) Embarrass...embarrass is that all you think of, you killed him Thomas, you killed our son.

(cut Camera Angle 1)Dr. Whertz: Killed...I 'aven't killed anyone. Your son is alive and well down stairs as we speak. A decorated war hero, and you think I've killed him?

(cut Camera Angle 1) Camilla: You killed him the day he was conceived you bastard. The day you found me in the basement, the day you...

(Camilla is backing away now towards the bed as a darker Dr. Whertz comes out.)

(cut Camera Angle 1)Dr. Whertz: Come Camilla, we agreed never to speak of that day again. I've made a life for us and you'd ruin it because of some trivial incident in the past. Something that I'd forgotten about...

(cut Camera Angle 1) Camilla: Forgotten...forgotten (she is screaming again) How dare you. You lock me in this room as I'm remembering all that you did back then. Lock me up here to keep me from my friends.

(Camilla pulls on the lamp and the room goes dark)

Scene 9

(Camera Angle 2 from the stairs where the nurse is standing-The Nurse has returned to the foyer to speak to the party of people. Many seem to crowd toward the stairs out of worry. Cut to camera angle 2 from behind the crowd looking at the Nurse.)

Nurse: Everything is fine, I'm afraid that this level of excitement was too much for Camilla. She's been ill lately.

(cut Camera Angle 1)Billy: Is my mother alright?

(cut Camera Angle 1) Nurse: I'm sure she'll be fine, your father is attending to her now.

(From above the sound of a crash is heard along with a jumble of screams. The Nurse turns and rushes up the stairs as Billy pushes through the crowd of people. The Nurse is the first to enter the room, it is pitch black and only the sound of Camilla's heavy breathing can be heard.)

(cut Camera Angle 1)Nurse: Dr. Whertz, Camilla, is everything okay?

(cut Camera Angle 2.2-from nurse to Billy in background) Billy: Mom...Dad?

Nurse: Billy go and get a torch, there's one under the kitchen sink.

(Billy leaves and the Nurse enters the room making it to the French doors after tripping over something on the floor. As she opens the curtains dim light fills the room showing Camilla creeping along the wall picking at the wallpaper, and Dr. Whertz on the floor, the cord of the lamp tightly twisted around his neck. The Camera cuts to angle 2 outside the French doors, we see the nurse rush to the Doctor's aid and the brief flash of a yellow flashlight beam come into the room.)

00:60:00 End

Credits.

Meta-text: The inspiration for writing this was an odd prompt from a call for a low budget thriller script. Thinking back to the early well known writers and horror film masters like Hitchcock, I thought of taking The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, updating it a bit, and turning it into a modern psychological thriller.

Noting that much of the thrill in this script as I've imagined it is based more on the psychosomatic problems Camilla faces in her psychosis than it is in gore, blood, and outright violence. It leaves much for the audience to imagine while at the same time directing them through sudden changes.

The length of the film is only an estimate, and as I would bet an overestimation, rather than underestimation. I'd put a fully produced film based on this script closer to forty minutes. There are some scenes I'd like to change and enhance, but as of now I feel the story is finished.

Kristoffer Martin

[1] There should be a fake wall with a latex coating of some form. A cheap option is a plastic shower curtain used as a flexible backing to the wall paper over a false wall where actors could be hidden.

[2] Preferred view, CGI darkness engulfs her just as the light disappears