'Silent Night' Treatment

Act 1

On Christmas Eve a mother is telling her young son the Christmas story after tucking him up in bed. After she's finished telling him the story she says 'goodnight' and leaves the boy to sleep. After she leaves the room the older brother sneaks into the room and tells his brother the 'real' Christmas story that happened years back; which is about a young boy who had mental illnesses and was taken away from his family around Christmas time and was sent to a mental care home. He began to lose his mind even more and one day escaped and killed those who got in his way. He came back one Christmas and killed his entire family in the house the little boy lives in.

Act 2

After hearing the story the little boy becomes very frightened and starts to hear and see strange things. Although he hasn't seen the killer he feels that he is watching him. Strange things start to happen and eventually someone is killed and the little boy and his older brother both realise that the story is actually real and the killer is coming for them. People in the neighbourhood start to disappear and whilst the boys older brother is out with friends, they hear a scream and decide to check out what's going on. He splits up from his friends while they all go to investigate what they heard, during this time his two friends get killed. He gets attacked too, and as the killer is about to make the final blow, a passer buy sees what's going on and goes to hunt them.

Act 3

Suddenly more and more people are being murdered in the neighbourhood by a murderer dressed in a Santa outfit. To build up tension in the trailer flash transitions are used to show time passing, making it look like a montage. The final act will show several people being killed and the boy realising that the murderer is getting closer and closer to him. The music in the trailer will be Christmassy but will have a horror feel to it and be fast pace to build up the suspense and horror feel of the trailer. The boy ends up trapped in his house and ends up face to face with the killer, after trying to get away and hide, the killer eventually corners the boy, when he is suddenly stabbed, with a kitchen knife, seemingly killing him. The brothers walk out the house whilst the police arrived outside. The film ends with a shot of the killer's body and zooms onto his bloody hand twitching.