Research and Planning: Stalker Films

I have made this post to show different plot types for stalker films, I think this was important for me to do as it will help me when I am constructing my storyboard etc as I need to think of a plot that is viable and interesting. By looking at similar plots, I can see parts that I think would help make a good film and apply parts of it to mine.

Fatal Attraction (1987) is about a married man who has a weekend affair with a female colleague while his family are out of town but what he never expected was that the woman would begin to stalk him and his family. This film is a certificate 18 as there is violence with knives, guns and hand to hand combat as well as the horror stalker nature of the film.

Fear (1996) is a certificate 18 that is under the genre of Horror, Thriller and Drama. Fear is about a young girl of sixteen years old (Nicole) who is innocent but rebels against her father, so when she meets a guy (David) she decides to go out with him as her father disapproves. Her father does a check on his daughters new boyfriend and finds that he isn't all he appears to be. Nicole later finds out how possessive he really is as he will do anything to be with her even beating himself and falsely accusing others.

Single White Female (1992) is about a girl who advertises in the paper for a 'single white female' to share rent with her in a new room, she woman she chooses seems to be normal however she has a past that haunts her. Her new room mate begins to copy everything about her like the way she dresses and even copies her hairstyle so they are almost identical. She finds out the background of her new room mate and she isn't who she says she is after all, in fact she has a shady history where she killed the last woman she chose to copy so now it is a race against time. The is also a certificate 18 and is also classed as a thriller, I think if my group decide on doing a plot about a stalker that we need our genre to be horror/thriller in order for it to be as effective.

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) is about a woman who fakes her own death in order to avoid the terrible marriage she is in but her obsessive and abusive husband won't be kicked out of her life that easily, and if he cannot have her then nobody can. This film unlike the three above is a certificate 15 this could be as it isn't as violent/sexual.