Victim names - research

Names of victims

• We want the names of the films victims to be memorable yet meaningful. We want the names to suit each characters personality and background. Here are names and their meanings that we have researched that would be useful and effective in our film.

Female

1. Iris (Isis) – meaning colourful, rainbows, flowers. This is a good name to use for a victim who is very young and shy yet sneaky with cunning plans to contrast her name.
2. Eris – meaning goddess of discord and destruction.
3.  Enya – meaning fire.
4.  Mackenzie – meaning fire-born.
5. Louise – meaning fame and war. This would be great to show another personality in the film who wants to put on a good show for the cameras by killing others in an entertaining way.
6. Maude/Mattie – meaning powerful battler. This would be good to show a feisty and blood-curdling personality.
7. Della – meaning noble.
8. Flora – meaning flower. Shows a vulnerable, easily-broken personality.
9. Persephone – meaning ‘murder’ and ‘to destroy’.
10. Desdemona – meaning ‘of the devil’.
11. Nyla – meaning the winner. This would be ideal if we had a female win the competition.

Male

1. Mallory – meaning ‘unfortunate’. This negative name can be used for someone of any personality (weak or strong).
2. Daray – meaning ‘dark’.
3. Drake – meaning ‘dragon’.
4. Than – meaning ‘death’. This could be used to insinuate death of himself or that he wants death of others to occur.
5. Hannibal – already having a negative meaning from the notorious killer and cannibal, ‘Hannibal Lector’. Striving for kill.
6. Damien – meaning the name of the devil.
7. Hades – meaning king of the dead.
8. Victor – meaning victory, winner. This would be ideal if we had a male win the competition.
9. Dante - meaning 'enduring'.