PLANNING: Bonfire Night Film Synopsis

Four friends are meeting up around a bonfire on the 5^th November. These include; Faith Richards – the promiscuous girl, Alex Martin – the lover turned killer, Scott Chegg – the stoner / comic relief and Lucy Jones – the innocent/final girl. Faith dares Alex to go into the shed for ‘7 minutes of heaven’ with Lucy. Lucy is not too sure about this as she is not as promiscuous or loose as Faith, and therefore lets Alex go in on his own.

In a frenzy, Faith accidentally tips over the bonfire and fire begins to spread. They try to get Alex out but to no avail, and they have to run away whilst he screams for help inside the shed. They believe he has died, and no one speaks about it again, out of guilt and shame.

A year later, on the same day, the 5^th of November, the group are sitting in their college’s common room. As they are conversing with one another, a masked figure jumps into the room and scares them, but its revealed to only be Scott playing a prank on them. They all laugh about it and go back to their discussions, however as they are talking, they notice a masked figure standing at the window holding a metal bar. He begins to walk towards the door as Faith exclaims “That’s not Scott! That’s not Scott!”.

The group spends the next few weeks afraid, as they believe figure is coming to kill them. Eventually they find out that the killer is Scott, back for revenge after they left him for dead. He developed major scarring on the face, hence he wears a Hessian bag for a mask to cover his face. He returns again, this time chasing them into a theatre. They sprint down the stairs to avoid him, as he watches them from above. Alex fails to kill them all, but manages to attack Faith, and she dies from her injuries.

They continue to be weary, and they tell a police officer about their stalker, but to no avail, and he believes there are bigger problems. Faith turns up to college the next day to find Scott died in his sleep, murdered by an unknown suspect. She knows who did it, but the police force do not help her. That day she walks through the empty corridors after college has closed, staying after to speak to a teacher about everything that went wrong.

As she walks through the corridors she hears footsteps behind her, and she runs into the school hall, and attempts to hide inside the curtains. She looks up and finds him above her on the rafters, rattling his metal rod against the gating. She runs into another room and tries to stay quiet, but her screams still come out. He tracks her down and manages to get his hands on her, but she darts to the side and swipes the metal pipe from his hands, and snatches it from his grasp. She hits his legs with it as he falls to the ground, she unmasks him and asks why he did it, why he killed all her friends. He tells her that they ruined his life by locking him in the shed and leaving him to burn alive. She calls the police and tells them she has him here, but they laugh it off as a silly prank call and they hang up. Whilst she’s on the phone, Alex jumps up and sprints out the door. He turns around to smile evilly at her as he runs into the night. Lucy falls to the ground and bursts into tears.