FEARnet Exclusive: 'Clock Tower' Details!
I recently got my hands on info from the script of Clock Tower. The film is based on the survival horror video game franchise of the same name. Spoiler alerts coming up guys, I?m going to divulge some of the juicer scenes.
It appears that the story follows the exploits of a girl named Alyssa, who has intensely repressed memories and suffers from panic attacks. A call comes in from her estranged mother, telling her not to come home, but also telling Alyssa that she?s left something for her. Alyssa heads off to her old home at an inn with a clock tower, and that?s when things start to get creepy. She and her friend hear odd noises and see some strange visions, until finally they see her mother has hanged herself.
Strange things continue to happen as both Alyssa and her friend scour the area, searching for clues and staying at the house. Cabinets and Cupboards have a propensity to go on and on in a strange, impossible vacuum of space. One startling scene involves her friend, Lynn, investigating a bathroom. As she backs up to an open medicine cabinet, empty and spreading into the darkness, arms reach out and engulf Lynn, creating one of the most shocking scenes of the script.
Overall the script seems to have some okay spooks, but it doesn?t really capture the spirit of the video games. Avid survival horror fans will remember the series, where one was stalked throughout a mansion by Scissorman, a man who wielded a giant pair of hedge clippers and basically just wanted you dead, end of story. Yes, the main character is helpless as in the games, but the original games were actually designed to play like a horror movie. In the video game, unlike most survival horror games, it wasn?t about fighting a bad guy, but more about just squeaking by with your life. This script seems more about supernatural forces, curses, and haunting in this mansion. The Scissorman, in the capacity that he appears in the script, is not the stalking, classic horror villain from the games, a villain that would have translated perfectly into film. Only time will tell how this story develops, but for now Clock Tower seems a creepy, if unfaithful, adaptation of the series.
