Deconstruction of Victim's Background

In the Saw films, the victims Jigsaw chooses are sinners - people who steal, cheat, envy, lie etc. On http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Jigsaw's_victims there are tables for each Saw film explaining each victim's background, here are two examples:

This is similar to the killer's victims in Se7en (1995) - they all prominently displayed one of the seven deadly sins:

• Lust - the prostitute in Se7en

• Envy - the killer

• Wrath - Mills' wrath towards the killer

• Sloth - the depressed criminal

• Gluttony - the obese man

• Pride - the model

• Greed - the lawyer (Sloth's lawyer)

In A Nightmare On Elm Street 1 (1984), Freddy Krueger killed dozens of children and upset parents from that town burned him alive as revenge. He comes back years later to kill the children of those parents in their dreams.

In Mama (2013), the mama creature kills the 2 daughters' father - who had killed their mother and his business partners, and was going to kill them and then commit suicide. However, Mama kills the father right before he pulls the trigger on his daughters. Mama's own child had died and so she protects the girls and nurtures them, believing them to be her own children to make up for her lost child.

In the TV series Pretty Little Liars, the four friends played a role in the death of their friend Alison. The TV series slowly unfolds the events leading up to the death and how it was not only the four friends involved in the Alison's death. 'Alison' comes back to torment the girls as well as their family and other friends, and she calls herself 'A' so no one knows whether it stands for Alison or someone/thing else.

In The Hills Gave Eyes (2006), the victims are not specifically chosen, they were a family passing through a town and wanted to take the quickest route out - through the hills which are inhabited by killer mutants. In this film, there is less focus on the victim's background and more on the mutant's background as theirs is more substantial and important because they were effected by nuclear tests.

In conclusion, I want our victims to have a troubling background which makes them perfect for the 'game' because the killer believes they deserve to suffer for what they have done - similar to Se7en and Saw. Our trailer will be of an urban and horror genre so it could possibly be a gang who (like Pretty Little Liars) committed a serious crime and are now having to pay for it. I like the idea of the mutants in The Hills Have Eyes and Freddy Krueger's revenge in A Nightmare On Elm Street, however, for the killer and victims to both have complex backgrounds would be hard to portray and tease to the audience in a 2 minute trailer.

UPDATE: Our initial idea for the storyline has now been changed. However, Annie and I still want the seven deadly sins idea to be included in our trailer, and are considering the A Nightmare On Elm Street's idea of deadly dreams.