Running with the new, revised idea, I remembered a cool bit in an old film I saw years ago. It took a while to find the film, and even longer to find the right clip, but I finally managed to track it down and it's actually a remake of an even older horror film, The House on Haunted Hill, this version from 1999.
In it, a group of young adults are offered a million dollars to spend the night in a so called haunted house. Not the most creative plot line, but one that drives the "story" forward enough to provide a fair share of thrills and spills, of which one of them popped in my head when thinking of ways to realise my own idea here.
I managed to locate and edit a quick clip of the part in question, in the hope that it would better illustrate my point...
In the video, we see a cute little hottie wandering around the basement of said haunted house, alone, in the dark, just asking for trouble. Obviously, she's not seen how these things usually end up.
The effect that stood out to me though is the use of her camcorder. She's just filming what look in real time like empty, deserted corridors, but through the camera, evil, twisted images of the past are horrifically revealed, and it's this effect that stood out to me.
Obviously, my idea wouldn't be quite as spooky, but the visual imagery of past mixed with present and seen through a frame in real time is the basis for my revised idea, and certainly helps me visualise a potential series of images in my minds eye!
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