History Film / Paperhouse

* JumpScare: Anna briefly dozes off in the bath, and dreams of a seaside holiday, on which she took a photograph of her Dad. As she dreams of her Dad happily posing for the camera, his smiling face suddenly adopts a crazed look of deathly solemnity. Accompanied by a screech of seagulls and a ScareChord, he lurches, at surreal speed, towards the camera.[[note]]Possibly a cinematic depiction of a [[https://www.sleepfoundation.org/parasomnias/hypnic-jerks hypnic jerk]].[[/note]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is she truly meeting Marc in a SharedDream, or is his presence in her dreams simply a creation of her mind?

* JumpScare: Anna briefly dozes off in the bath, and dreams of a seaside holiday, on which she took a photograph of her Dad. As she dreams of her Dad happily posing for the camera, his smiling face suddenly adopts a crazed look of deathly solemnity. Accompanied by a screech of seagulls and a ScareChord, he lurches, at surreal speed, towards the camera.

* CameBackWrong: A premortem example. Anna draws her Dad by the Paperhouse, but, discontent with his angry expression, scribbles over it. On appearance by and in the dreamed Paperhouse, her Dad seems to have forgotten who he is, which has driven him to furious, maniacal desperation. Oh, and his face is hidden by numerous scars, as a result of his graphite likeness having been scribbled out.

A 1988 British fantasy horror film from Working Title Films [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted from]] Catherine Storr's 1958 children's novel ''Marianne Dreams'', screenwritten by Matthew Jacobs (perhaps best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]), directed by Bernard Rose (perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''), and scored by Music/HansZimmer.

A 1988 Working Title Films [[TheFilmOfTheBook adaptation]] of Catherine Storr's 1958 children's fantasy novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs (perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]), scored by Music/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''.

In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. After being sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She then succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding scene. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs.

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]; scored by Music/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''.

In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding scene. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs.

On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who can't walk. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]; scored by Music/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding scene. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who can't walk. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

* EmpathicEnvironment: Having scrunched up her drawing, Anna’s next dreamed visit to the Paperhouse sees it in a state of disarray. When the drawing is set alight by a bedside candle, the moor before the house’s gate splits apart in a fire-spewing fissure.

* SceneryPorn: Expansive shots of the moor, house, nearby coastal cliffs and lighthouse invoke both fearful and joyous awe.

* {{Psychopomp}}: On learning Marc to have been discharged from hospital, Anna, to her drawing of their mutually visited lighthouse, adds a helicopter. On learning [[spoiler: Marc to have died]], Anna, on a coastal holiday with her parents, makes a waking visit to the dreamed lighthouse, Overhead flies a helicopter, from which calls a voice [[spoiler: implied to be that of Marc’s spirit]]. While she vainly reaches for a dangling rope ladder, the voice tells her to get away from the edge of the cliff.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: While initially occasionally sullenly aggressive, Anna’s dreamed visits to the Paperhouse gender a supportive friendship with Marc.

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]; scored by Music/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding scene. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who seems to have trouble walking. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]; scored by Music/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding house. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who seems to have trouble walking. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

* TheAlcoholic: Anna’s Dad. currently away on business, is recovering from a drinking problem.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: While initially sullenly aggressive, Anna’s dreamed visits to the Paperhouse gender a supportive friendship with Marc.

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]]; scored by Creator/HansZimmer, and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding house. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who seems to have trouble walking. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps otherwise best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding house. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who seems to have trouble walking. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...

A 1988 Working Title Films adaptation of Catherine Storr novel ''Marianne Dreams'', written by Matthew Jacobs, perhaps best known for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie TV Movie]], and directed by Bernard Rose, perhaps best known for ''Film/{{Candyman}}''. In class, Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) draws a picture of a house. Sent to stand in the corridor for misbehaviour, she faints, and dreams of a sloping coastal moor, atop which looms a house. She succumbs to a fever, whose recurring dreams bring her back to the foreboding house. On house call, Dr Nicols (Gemma Jones) mentions a boy in her care who has trouble walking. Anna draws in the house’s upstairs window the face of a boy. In another dreamed visit to the house, its upstairs window reveals young Marc (Elliot Spiers) who announces the house to be bereft of stairs. On separate paper, Anna draws an interior for the house, and on subsequent visits, becomes acquainted with Marc, who seems to have trouble walking. Frustrated by the absence of her Dad (Ben Cross), Anna adds his graphite likeness to the house, scribbles over it, and scrunches it up, whereupon mother Kate (Glenne Headly) unwittingly throws the paper out. On her next dreamed visit to the house, Anna finds it to be in disarray - while outside waits a surreally disfigured version of her Dad...