Project Idea and Major Inspiration

When we were creating our script, we drew major inspiration from two films: Weapons and Talk to Me. We used the horror style from both movies, but we added a stronger thriller element. Our opening isn’t full horror. Instead, it focuses on suspense and moments that keep the audience wanting to know what happens next.

Talk to Me is a supernatural thriller about a group of teens who discover a disturbing party game involving a ceramic embalmed hand that lets them communicate with spirits. What stood out to us was how the teens randomly find a suspicious object and, as a group, become victims of it. We took that idea but changed almost everything else. Instead of the story taking place in a room with a haunted hand, our opening happens in a parking lot, and the m

Weapons also influenced our script, mainly through its dark tone and tense atmosphere. Even though our project is not as intense or violent, we were inspired by how the film builds suspense through mystery and uncertainty. We used that same idea by creating an opening that keeps the audience questioning what is going on and what might happen next. Instead of relying on jump scares, we focused on creating tension through the setting, the characters’ reactions, and the strange object they discover.