Doll Face TREATMENT

Title Sequence
ACTION
A variety of little girls playing with dolls (brushing hair, playing tea parties, dressing them in pretty dresses)
A variety of dolls laid out in a line, all with unusual and scary facial expressions
MUSIC
Children laughing and singing with scary music played all the time
Act One:
- A women is applying her makeup at a bathroom mirror; she sees her reflection covered in scars, the camera pans 180 degrees to show the women’s face appearing to be normal. The woman begins to cry and frantically applies more makeup (foundation, blusher, eyeliner, mascara). A tap is dripping in the background.
- In the mirror her makeup appears very over done and doll-like
- Cut to an establishing shot of a modern bedroom, the room is very tidy (clothes folded neatly, no mess on the floor, bed made) however at second glance (360 pan) the room appears to be slightly strange with disfigured toys and a cracked mirror which seems to be slighting unusual strange pictures, photographs in which the women’s face has been scratched out, a broken mirror and unusual toys.
Then an extreme close-up shows a very strange disfigured china doll laying on the women’s bed (with scars, burns, and a tear of blood)
- The women then begins to get ready for work however instead of wearing the clothing that is laid out on her bed, she goes to her wardrobe, opens a box (which appears to be like an old dressing up box) and pulls out a very pretty red dress and does her hair identical to the dolls (plaits) and there is a split screen shot of both the women and the doll to highlight the similarities between her and the doll to the audience. We then see the women look into the cracked mirror and smile to herself
Act Two:
- Flashback of a girl finding a doll in an old dingy antique shop, a very strange old lady gives her the doll for free
- Cut back to real life, a series of tragic events occur for the women. It starts with her beginning to have a recurring dream; in which firstly a child is playing happily with a innocent looking doll, and then suddenly it turns on her, and its face becomes disfigured and the little girl becomes violent and aggressive. She wakes up screaming
- One morning after having one of these nightmares, the women wakes up bleeding. She and her husband go to the hospital to find out that tragically the woman has had a miscarriage. However both the husband and the doctor are horrified as the women reacts by laughing hysterically.
- She begins to have serious problems with her husband due to the miscarriage, and she locks her self in her room and just plays child-like games with her doll all day, not going to work etc. and they have an argument and he threatens to burn the doll. This ends in row where the women scratches her husband down the face, making him bleed.
Act Three:
- After the row, the husband packs his bags and leaves the house.
- The woman begins to have a break down, and goes into her bathroom and takes some pills. After taking the pills she runs back into her bedroom and frantically pulls the heads and cuts her old toys and dolls around her room.
- She then notices the doll on the bed and in a dramatic scene tries to burn the dolls hair, but ends up she burns her own hair. Then the women pulls off the dolls ‘tights’ and wraps it the dolls neck, then in a blurred shot the audience would she the women walk to her wardrobe and pull out a pair of tights (to show the women was about to hang herself)
- The husband arrives back with flowers, as he opens the door he rushes upstairs and realizes his wife is dead, the audience notice how the previous scars on the dolls face have disappeared. In a frantic rage the husband throws the doll out of the bedroom window. It then Cuts to a little girl playing on the street and notices the doll and picks her up off the street. The evil continues.