Second Idea

    2.  Husband tried to kill wife because she took custody of children by setting the house on fire, but he got caught up in the flames, she escaped from her room and the house blew up so he was assumed dead. 

     A few years on, she starts having nightmares about the incident and she is having visions of him alive and keeps seeing him with a burnt/scared face. She tries to tell people and the police that he is still alive and is trying to kill her but they think she has gone mental so gets sent to a mental institute. 

     

     When she comes out it seems as if the visions have stopped, but one night she wakes up, goes to the toilet to find that the mirror has red writing “you should never have got the kids” and the children are gone from the house. She contacts police and they investigate and to insure safety they get an officer to stay in the house with her to protect her. The next night the officer hears something and goes looking round the house, the husband kills him and takes uniform. He knocks on wife’s door and asks to come in to see if she is ok and as she doesn’t realise the police officer is dead, she lets him in. While she is in the shower, he comes in and attempts to strangle her and he then slips and whacks his on the toilet seat and dies. The kids are found in a warehouse and all is good again.

Title sequence starts with wife putting babies into the cot in her room and doing motherly stuff that makes us connect to her. Then the front door opens, but we only see black shoes walking in. We have a close up of a cigarette and we then cut to the wife. The wife is upstairs and we see her in bed. The man then pours gasoline on the floor and we have a few faced paced shots cutting between husband and wife. As a slow motion shows him dropping the cigarette, she opens her eyes and we cut back to the slow motion cigarette hitting the floor. Special effects come in which makes us follow the journey of the fire and  the credits role over the top.

The only inspiration I had on this piece was the title sequence from "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", because I like the special effects of the ink trail and shapes it makes.