Characters

Mandy

Mandy is a 18 year old girl played by Lucy Findlater and the opening sequence is centred around her. Her style is very 'pop' and she has a giggly and mischievious manner. She represents the stereotypical 'bimbo' who has little substance to her, however is blessed with very good looks. She is very popular and girls long to be just like her (although this isn't outright shown in the sequence, it is implied by her appearance and the fact the stalker is envious of her). When she visits her boyfriend's house she is followed and when she leaves she is brutely murdered by her boyfriends jealous stalker. In most typical teenage thriller films the murder victims are made to be unlikeable and the audience tends to feel no pity when murdered, though they are interested to find out who has done it and why. This is what we have intended following in the creation of Mandy's character.

Ted

Teddy is also 18 and is Mandy's boyfriend played by Perry Vazquez. Ted is an important character because the stalker character is obsessed with him and is green with envy when she see him with another girl. Ted has similar characteristics as his girlfriend and also comes across as a silly teenager. Despite this, there is clearly something that fascinates his stalker, so much so to the degree that she murders his girlfriend out of jealousy. Ted is supposed to represent the obviously 'good-looking' teenage boy who girls are infatuated by, he knows this and uses this knowledge to his own personal benefit. In the opening scene it is not established why the stalker is so obsessed with him, however this is what remains part of the mystery which would be solved if the rest of the film was continued.

Stalker

Anna Wylde plays the stalker is also about 18 years old and could go to the same school as Mandy and Ted although this is not revealed in the opening sequence. The reason we have decided not to give her a name and refer to as the 'stalker' is to create a mysterious, dark and fascinating persona. The fact we have intended not to reveal her name is to interest the audience and keep as much hidden from them in order to encourage them to watch the rest of the film. The opening consists of her watching Teddy and Mandy through a window and obsessing over them. Then she follows Mandy and murders her with an axe that she keeps with herself all the time and keeps inside her coat. The stalker is a psychotic and derranged caricature, clearly mentally unstable and what psychologists would consider abnormal. The rest of the film would be the investigation of who murdered Mandy and why, the discovery of the stalkers true idenity would reveal why she is so obsessed with Ted.