What Mummy Wants
In the sordid corridor of a cheap brothel, a working girl is assaulted by a violent client. She escapes, terrified and broken. But instead of fleeing the building, she stops. She reaches down... and takes the hand of a small, pigtail-wearing CHILD who appears from the shadows.
Together, they walk back to the room. To the CCTV camera, the woman is alone, gripping empty air. To us, she is a mother led by a daughter. The Child is curious, humming off-key, seemingly innocent—until they enter the room. What follows is a brutal, rhythmic act of vengeance executed by the Child, while the Mother watches.
The film ends with a chilling realization: the Child isn’t a haunting. She is a weapon. And the Mother is the one pulling the trigger.
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Jason SomervilleWriter
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Project Type:Short Script
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Genres:Psychological Horror, Horror
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Number of Pages:5
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:Yes
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Student Project:No
Jason Somerville is an emerging Australian screenwriter whose work explores identity, control, and the hidden cost of perception. His television pilot White Lies draws on his real undercover police experience to examine corruption, morality, and the personal toll of living behind a façade. Across his writing, Jason returns to a central theme — how people construct identity under pressure, and what happens when the lies they tell to survive begin to consume them.
This is not a film about ghosts; it is a film about the tangible weight of trauma. The violence is mostly suggested through sound (wet thuds, bedsprings) and limited POV (through a door crack), forcing the audience to imagine the worst. The horror lies in the silence and the disconnect between what the world sees (a crazy woman) and what she sees (a "good girl").
