Genre - psychological thriller/horror
Plot:
After staring an anonymous blog, Taylor's main goal was to draw people
in until he started dragging them down.
Taylor is a young aspiring writer.
He is constantly sat behind a keyboard, alone in his room, writing folders upon
folders worth of ideas and almost finished stories. One day, he decides he
wants to move on from non-fiction and begin writing something more appealing,
something that everyone would want to read. He tries his hardest to think of
ideas and fails for many weeks until he stumbles upon a social media platform
that allows anonymous pages. Not a second after finding this, the perfect idea
becomes clear to him – an anonymous blog.
To begin with, the blog turns out
to be very dull and relies on the ramblings about teachers and how much the
school meals suck. A couple days later, Taylor is walking through the hallways
at school and over hears a conversation between two girls. ‘Isabel cheated on Matthew
last weekend at Alex’s party’. Immediately Taylor brings up his phone and
begins typing his new post. Once he had done, he posted it under the school’s
tag so everyone could see it and by the next day he had had over 250 views with
so many comments and shares, it was then that Taylor realised that this is what
they all wanted to read.
The blog carries on for almost a
year. During this time three people had moved schools because of Taylor's exposing but this didn’t bother him, in his mind they are all getting what they
deserved. Throughout that year the rumours got worse, the people got worse.
Childhood friends began to throw each other under the bus. There was no trust
anymore. After a long period, the blog becomes dead so Taylor decides to
publish a secret that he thought he’d take to the grave. Head cheerleader,
straight A student and old childhood friend, Natalie wasn’t prepared for what
was about to come.
Natalie immediately realises who
is behind the blog as she remembers that the only person who knows this secret
it Taylor. Natalie finds Taylor and tries to convince him to delete the blog
before they both get into trouble with the police. Taylor says no which forces
Natalie to go to extreme measures to stop out of control Taylor.
At the end of the film, Taylor
completely loses it and has an ‘episode’ regarding the blog. He murders Natalie on the school football field (at night with an axe) and is sent to a psychiatric ward, the blog is taken down and Taylor lives out
the rest of his life in the ward.
The first three minutes:
The film begins with a zooming in
shot of Taylor from behind hunched over a computer screen (in his bedroom). He
is furiously typing a story. The camera zooms in on some of the words being typed and these are quite creepy, for example 'death'. The next shot is on a pile of rejection letters on
the desk which cuts to a close up shot on Taylor's face. The opening sequence
begins which is the title of the film being typed out on a keyboard.
After the title sequence, we see
Taylor mumbling to himself (while still being sat at his desk) tapping pencils.
He’s trying to think of new ways to write, this is shown in a shot of his
notebook and his lack of ideas. Next, Taylor logs into some off his social
media accounts and scrolls around for a while, then he comes cross the website
which gives him his new idea.
Plot:
After staring an anonymous blog, Taylor's main goal was to draw people in until he started dragging them down.
Taylor is a young aspiring writer. He is constantly sat behind a keyboard, alone in his room, writing folders upon folders worth of ideas and almost finished stories. One day, he decides he wants to move on from non-fiction and begin writing something more appealing, something that everyone would want to read. He tries his hardest to think of ideas and fails for many weeks until he stumbles upon a social media platform that allows anonymous pages. Not a second after finding this, the perfect idea becomes clear to him – an anonymous blog.
To begin with, the blog turns out to be very dull and relies on the ramblings about teachers and how much the school meals suck. A couple days later, Taylor is walking through the hallways at school and over hears a conversation between two girls. ‘Isabel cheated on Matthew last weekend at Alex’s party’. Immediately Taylor brings up his phone and begins typing his new post. Once he had done, he posted it under the school’s tag so everyone could see it and by the next day he had had over 250 views with so many comments and shares, it was then that Taylor realised that this is what they all wanted to read.
The blog carries on for almost a year. During this time three people had moved schools because of Taylor's exposing but this didn’t bother him, in his mind they are all getting what they deserved. Throughout that year the rumours got worse, the people got worse. Childhood friends began to throw each other under the bus. There was no trust anymore. After a long period, the blog becomes dead so Taylor decides to publish a secret that he thought he’d take to the grave. Head cheerleader, straight A student and old childhood friend, Natalie wasn’t prepared for what was about to come.
At the end of the film, Taylor completely loses it and has an ‘episode’ regarding the blog. He murders Natalie on the school football field (at night with an axe) and is sent to a psychiatric ward, the blog is taken down and Taylor lives out the rest of his life in the ward.
The first three minutes:
The film begins with a zooming in shot of Taylor from behind hunched over a computer screen (in his bedroom). He is furiously typing a story. The camera zooms in on some of the words being typed and these are quite creepy, for example 'death'. The next shot is on a pile of rejection letters on the desk which cuts to a close up shot on Taylor's face. The opening sequence begins which is the title of the film being typed out on a keyboard.
After the title sequence, we see Taylor mumbling to himself (while still being sat at his desk) tapping pencils. He’s trying to think of new ways to write, this is shown in a shot of his notebook and his lack of ideas. Next, Taylor logs into some off his social media accounts and scrolls around for a while, then he comes cross the website which gives him his new idea.
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