Film Treatment: Dean Gilbert

Film Treatment: Dean Gilbert (72 years, 5 murders)

Our group all decided to create different film treatments and then we would choose one, this is my idea.

My film is a Horror/Thriller film and is based all around one main character Dean Gilbert, the film shows his whole life. In the present day Gilbert is an old man on his deathbed at the age of 72. We then begin to look back on his life discovering that he is a serial killer, killing 5 people throughout his life spanning across 60 years. With use of a voice over he takes us through each of these moments in his life explaining them and showing how they link. We also see into his childhood and how this affected his future life growing up in a violent home.

This leads to his first victim, his father who was violent towards him and his mother. When Dean was 12 he came home from school to find his father viciously beating his mother he panicked and picked up a knife from the kitchen and stabbing his father in the back killing him. As he was only 12 and possibly saved his mothers life his mother helped him dispose of the body and hide it from the police. We then see the rest of these murders.

A bully at his school who he strangled at the age of 16.

His girlfriend who he drowned in the bath at the age of 21.

After that he was then sent to prison after handing himself in, whilst in there he kills his fellow inmate whilst in a fight Dean smashes his head against the wall.

And finally when he was released at the age of 65 he murders a prostitute also by stabbing her as he did to his father all those years ago. The film ends with Dean closing his eyes and him dying.