A Series of Unfortunate Clues

A weird conversation with my mum yesterday led me to thinking about how odd some of the things we throw into our stories are (though the below is far, far odder than anything of mine and possibly yours - in a good way) and how I should be careful how I describe them in a synopsis (or something equally as evil).

The below is her description of a film that she claimed I had 'claimed' to love, and for most of the conversation, my response was either 'poppycock', 'did I have a fever?' or 'that sounds like the worst film ever, it's like a thousand bad horror movie plots rolled into one.'

We'll start off with some things she got wrong about the movie...

It had the girl in it from that sci-fi show you used to like - Melrose Place I think (me, huh!), I mean Beverly Hills 90210.

To which we came up with Shannen Doherty - and nope she isn't in it (thank the lord) - which you will have already guessed. ;)

Now the truths of the plot:

- it was weird, odd, one of those strange things you like (narrow it down for me)
- there was a girl in old fashioned dress (Shannen Doherty?) - nod to confirm
- and at the end a baby fell off the roof (and I claimed it was good!!! That would so never be a good ending)
- there was a cave
- and a river
- there was a tower
- and they were in a burned out house
- the house was crooked and they went to live with the old woman who lived there
- they were trying to get away from a man who was after them
- there were things in the river and the boat sank
- there was a train accident
- and there were snakes
- it was originally a book, but it wasn't that Neil Gaiman

Now isn't that much better than her description...