Films Similar to Ours.

An example of  a film similar to our is 'Carrie', telling the story of a young girl who is socially tormented by her peers which causes her to lose control of her supernatural abilities. 'Carrie' is like  our film in the sense that our main character is also bullied and teased within school and is viewed as an outsider. Carrie and our main character both seem to act upon a self fulfilling prophecy and lose control of the abilities they both develop. Both 'Carrie' and our film have similar properties such as a character who is a teenager who has a supernatural gift, bullies who are eventually punished and a setting in a high school.

'Sixth sense' also includes a vulnerable character within it's plot, who gets teased and misunderstood by his peers. Our character Zachary also endures this kind of treatment, which in our case results in him developing a hatred towards others. Both Zachary and the protagonist in 'Sixth sense' are bullied because they don't fit in which in their separate ways, they struggle to deal with

In 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', a young teenager, due to his angry outlook on others and dark intentions from being regarded as strange all his life, commits a massacre at his high school. Zachary in our film also begins to push his new found control over others (in the form of the commands he writes down) as time goes on and he is continuously treated as an outcast. 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' is similar to our film because they both contain a main character that has dark tendencies and are seen as weirdos. Both protagonists take out there hatred onto other they feel deserve it, as well as having settings in a high school and a home environment.

School in 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'.


The film 'Death Note's' plot is set around a young boy who discovers a book which will kill anyone who he writes down the name of. Our film also focused around a book with supernatural abilities, with anything our character writes down becoming reality. In our film, the main character discovers the ability of being able to write down the fate of people he feels deserve it. 'Death Note's' protagonist also 'punishes' people he feels deserve it by writing there names in a book, therefore the plot of both films circulate around the power of a notebook. 

Overall, the main character's of all these films are set around high school teenagers, with the exception of 'Sixth Sense' which is still set in a school. Each of these character's (like our lead Zachary) are all responsible for the supernatural or unusual events that take place in the high school, with the majority being due to the result of bullying or feeling like an outsider. Every plot revolves around a main character who is misunderstood and an outcast and how it effects there ultimate behaviour and therefore the storyline of the film.