Suicide club

Introduction

Suicide Club otherwise known as Suicide Circle in Japan is a Japanese horror/thriller film directed by Japanese director Sion Sono and was released October 29 , 2001. Unlike other critically acclaimed Japanese horror film, this film did not receive a western transitional film adaptation; which is what influenced me to use this film as an influence for the narrative of my horror teaser trailer.

 I am planning on replicating the successful conventions that were placed in place by other directors that had transitioned Japanese horror film into western horror blockbusters.

Plot

The story takes place in Tokoyo, Japan in the course of six days. The story follows a band of detectives as they are tasked with uncovering the case of the mass suicides that keep occurring all over Japan. The first case of suicide occurs when a massive group of school girls jump in front of a speeding train and thus taking their lives, this causes mass hysteria as more and more suicides are being committed. During the course of the story the detectives were tipped about a website that displays red and white circles that signifies the amount of male and females that had committed suicides in the past few days. At the end of the film the detectives discover that the cause of the mass suicides were the doings of a Japanese pop group called Deserts who's music had drawn people to commit suicide.

My interpretation 

In order to avoid plagiarism I have been advised by my teacher to use the narrative of the movie as influence for my own narrative as I am not allowed to replicate or mimic any of the original source. As I am using the original narrative as influence for my own narrative I will focus on some of the key themes in the original source to use as a  stimuli. I have decided to keep the theme of mass suicide as a major plot point in my narrative. I want to set my narrative in modern day London and thus I will research into the conventions I must use to make the regional location of my narrative known.

Instead of using a Japanese pop group as my main antagonist I will be enforcing a practical and western stereotypical uncanny antagonist as my antagonist establishes that I have successfully translated the film from eastern to western as most western horrors follow the conventions of having a uncanny/paranormal antagonist in their horrors.