I’ve been developing a psychological thriller concept and wanted to share a piece of it.
Red Door, Blue Door & Yellow Door
A man searching for a washroom in a decaying, abandoned 1980s shopping mall is led down a hallway he doesn’t remember entering… to a hidden room.
Inside are three doors.
Red. Blue. Yellow.
Each one offers a different form of psychological entrapment — where time, memory, and identity begin to distort.
The deeper he goes, the more it becomes clear:
He was never meant to leave.
And the choice he was given… may have never been real.
This isn’t a story about escape — it’s about realizing there never was one.
I’m drawn to film ideas that explore perception, control, and the illusion of choice — this one leans heavily into atmosphere, tension, and slow psychological unraveling.
Would love to hear thoughts from others working in thriller / psychological spaces. Let me know what you all think! :)
#psychological thriller
#horror
#indie film
#short film
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I think I've got some hooks for ya for this, so I write action thriller stories and the psychological thrillers and them tend to overlap depending on the direction you wish to go in, but you have three doors right, so if your main character goes into one, maybe for one he's replaced by an imposter that looks like him and talks like him and nobody recognizes who he is and when he reports it, he's seen as crazy, for door number two, maybe he could be in a hospital undergoing surgeries but they keep happening every single day, but the biggest thing Nadine is this, what if, and i'll put extra emphasis on the what if here, the final door could be the same hallway he's already entered in the abandoned mall, feel free to play around with those if you wish
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I don't write this genre, but I enjoy watching this type of movie. Excellent setup. Would love to see what you do with it.