When Joanna, a 40-year-old mother, drives down the street, she sees an attractive dollhouse sitting pretty on top of a garbage can by the road. Taking a fancy for the item for she owned something similar as a child, she takes it home for her own daughter. It is a large dollhouse of three floors, complete with all the paraphernalia dollhouses come with. She also finds a pouch containing figurines of four family members; a father, a mother and two children: a young girl, and a boy. At home, her daughter Ellie is delighted to get the doll house. She spends a good deal of her time playing with her new toy. Her mother is also happy and even helps her redecorate the house. But soon, Ellie notices something strange about the dollhouse. As the week goes by, the events in the dollhouse get even more mysterious. What is the secret of the dollhouse? What evils lie in wait for Joanna and Ellie for bringing home the beautiful but sinister dollhouse?
“The dollhouse’ is a short length script by writer Brooke DeRosa. DeRosa picks the narrative up from the nondescript event of a mother taking home a discarded old dollhouse from the garbage bin for her daughter. The story builds upon regular day-to-day events that happen in every household, like children playing with a new toy, etc. The screenplay then introduces mysteries into the mix, effortlessly thickening the plot without any sudden events that thrill and scare. The screenplay delivers the chills of a sinister revelation, without the need to use special visual effects while filming. This makes the script great for low-budget productions too.
‘The dollhouse’ is a sinister thriller in its own right that is sure to send chills down the spine with its regular domestic setting and a mundane sequence of events that builds up to a shocking twist at the end.
