Inception of Characters

Our characters took form after a long and close study of the most well known fictional characters portrayed in cinemas. 


 One character we examined was Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 adaption of 'The Shining'.  Jack Torrance is a writer and former teacher who is trying to rebuild his family's life after his alcoholism and volatile temper costs him his teaching position at a small preparatory school. Having given up drinking, he accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, in the hope that this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play.






 Another character which perhaps influenced our character Darragh  Boyle the most is Norman Bates played by Anthony Perkins. Norman Bates suffers severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that all women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live together in a state of total co-dependence after the death of Bates' father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover which drives Bates over the edge with jealousy. Bates murders both of them with strychnine and preserves his mothers corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mothers personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of killing her. He inherits his mothers house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in fictional Fairvale, California.





As you can see the type of characters we are interested in emulating are making a pattern. The characters seem to be more mentally conflicted or insane rather than the basic slasher villains intent solely on murder. This gives our character personality and sets him apart from the majority of horror persona's. 


Darragh Boyle - Main Character, Murderer.
Raised by a strict Roman Catholic family. Darragh met and married Chloe 4 years before the events of this film, and has proved in the past to be easily agitated.
Played by Ryan Kearney.


Chloe Boyle - Secondary Character, Primary Victim.
Chloe was raised in Ireland and unlike Darragh was brought up as irreligious. Since marriage to Darragh she has felt the effects of immense stress due to his attitude/borderline obsession with religion and his frightening mood swings, because of this she spends her time searching for escape of which she finds in Richard.
Played by Natalie M?


Richard Striker - Only shown through Pictures, Implied Victim
Richard moved to Ireland from New York with his wife and two young sons. Although he has no friendship or acquaintance with Darragh he has known Chloe for several years. Darragh is unaware of this until the day of the events shown.