Film Idea 1

A girl (name here) is walking home from college, after having an argument with her mother over the phone, when the sociopath gags her and drags her around a corner. It blacks out. It then cuts to where she is strapped up in the strange mans basement. And he keeps calling her a strange name and she doesn’t understand why, but all she wants to do is escape. It gets late, and her mother keeps trying to call her but her hands are tied up behind her back so she can’t answer it. Then the sociopath brings down a photo of his dead child to show the girl. She realises the resemblance between her and his dead daughter, and he tells her a story of her death.
         It cuts to her mother going crazy, looking for her child. She calls all her daughters friends, and goes to college and scours the streets looking for her daughter. She then calls the police who tell her they can’t do anything for 48 hours after the disappearance. Then she nearly gives up and walks back from the police station, but then she finds her daughters charm bracelet, which she knows is her daughters because of the inscription given to her by her dead husband.

          She realises that instantly something is wrong. And she continuously tries ringing her phone as she scours the street where the bracelet was found.

      The sociopath is upstairs in his house, making something to eat as the girl has managed to reach her nail file, and is sawing at the material holding hands together. Then the man hears the bang as she nearly escapes from the stool, and he comes running back down to the basement and threatens to kill her. Then he collapses and starts hysterically crying and shouting his dead daughters name. The girl pretends to take pity and says if he releases her, she will try and help him. She calls him ‘dad’ and says that she won’t leave him ever again and that he needs him to let her go to give him a hug. He unties her wrists from the rope, and she uneasily gives him a hug and then she asks for her legs to be untied and promises to never leave him. So he begins to untie her, and then her phone rings again really loudly. And he starts going crazy again.
            Her mother hears the familiar ringtone, and starts to connect the sound to a house. She realises the directions it’s coming from. She rings the police, and then she scours the garden for a heavy object. She finds a shovel next the sociopaths shed, and then calls the phone again. She realises that it’s coming from the basement and tries to find the window down to the basement. She hears the police sirens in the distance. But still realises it could be too late, so she gathers up her courage and smashes the window and jumps through. The man grabs a blade from his belt, and threatens to kill her daughter as the mother jumps down in to the basement.  

Alternative endings:

Her mother jumps in a shouts insults to the man, but her daughter slowly explains what’s happening to her mother and the man breaks down crying on the floor because he hears the sirens.  Then the police come in and drag him out.

Number two:
Her mother jumps in and the crazy man is holding the blade against her daughter’s neck. Then the mother speaks up ‘wait, I just want my daughter back’ and slowly puts the shovel down. And as her mother is trying to convince the man to let her daughter go, and the man moves away from her, the daughter silently picks up the shovel and smacks the man with the shovel around the head and he falls to the ground. They limp out of the basement window as the police arrive, collapsing in each other’s arms.