Weapon research

Initially we wanted to use a knife as the killer's weapon, a knife is a classic murder symbol and also the most visceral way to carry out a murder in my opinion, we wanted the audience to feel really engaged when watching our Thriller, a knife is about as personal as weapon can get. However a knife plays to much towards the horror conventions.

A pistol is a symbol of low level crime. A cheap, easy, close range solution to a problem. However our killer is NOT a low level criminal, he is a professional ex-military marksman. A pistol would not suit his character.

A Light Machine Gun (LMG), is a large, powerful piece of kit, they are difficult to transport without drawing attention to one's self. In the procedure of firing the round they often have a high fire rate, and devastating stopping power. HOWEVER, they are incredibly noisy, and the repeating noise of a round being fired is very uncommon in the surrey hills so it would draw a lot of attention and most likely law enforcement. I may not need to say this but in the spirit of covering all points, the weapon would make a mess. A BIG mess, and that's not very professional so we scrapped that idea. 


Ideal for close quarters combat and also easy to get hold of in England as it is one of very few firearms available to purchase. Again however it is a very messy gun and would require the killer to be quite close in order to effectively terminate the victim. And would most likely require a lot of running around for the killer, and he's a professional so it would look much more cool if he was stationary and chilled out.

The ideal weapon with very few flaws, the sniper rifle can be positioned at any vantage point and is effective at extremely long range depending on the rifle. It is as professional looking as it is effective. A silencer can be attached to the rifle which greatly reduces the noise made by the action of firing the round which adds a stealth element to this weapon. As a group we decided that a rifle would be the best choice of weapon for our killer.