Name of film.

The name of the film is going to be called Dante's Harpie.

The reason the film will have this name is because it's based on a watercolour by the English printmaker William Blake. This illustrates a passage from the inferno canticle( hymn, song, or psalms taken from biblical texts other than the psalms)  Dante Alighieri's Divine comedy.

The painting features harpies on treetops. Harpies are mythological winged fat bellied death spirits who have features of female heads and breasts.

In context to the film, the murderer, who is already psychotic, read this text in his past. This mixed in with females giving him bad treatment lead these psychotic ideas to form and he starts to murder women to rid them from the world as he sees them as evil harpies and he tries 'to protect' himself from death that they bring.

The idea for the film shares some links to the 1995 psychological thriller Seven. One way is the killers shared motives. Seven's serial killer John Doe wants to rid the world of people who represent sin due to the reading of fictional texts which ideas are based on sin. Whilst in my movie the killer reads a specific text, which when mixed him with bad treatment from females, gives him the motivation to commit murder. Another link is the feature of the Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri. In Seven, it features when the detectives are researching the seven deadly sins in hope to find the killer. In my movie, one of the killers motivation stems from a passage in the first canticle, Inferno, where Dante and the Roman poet Virgil, travel through woods haunted by Harpies.

It will appeal to the audience as it has a historical background to it, and the title is not of common place so the audience will want to find out the meaning behind it.