Laughing Jack: Origins

Laughing Jack: Origins is an upcoming horror film based on the Laughing Jack creepypasta. It is a prequel to Laughing Jack

Plot
On Christmas Eve in the 1800s in London, a 7 year old boy called Isaac lives with his abusive parents. On Christmas Day, Isaac wakes up to a pleasant smell coming from a box on the floor in the middle of his bedroom. Isaac looks inside to see a brightly coloured wooden box with a crank on the side and silly clown faces, a tag has Isaac's name and the words 'Laughing Jack-In-A-Box' are carved into the side. Isaac turns the crank and sings along to the song that plays, 'Pop goes the weasel', however, nothing happens.

Isaac abandons the box when he hears a rattling coming from the box, which starts to shake on the floor, the top bursts open in an explosion of coloured smoke and confetti and a tall clown in bright, colourful clothes, with bright red hair and a rainbow nose, jumps out of the box, bows to Isaac and introduces himself as 'Laughing Jack', saying he is Isaac's new friend for the rest of Isaac's life. Isaac and Laughing Jack play until Isaac is called by his mother for Isaac's homeschooling.

After a few months, Isaac tells his mother about Laughing Jack and tries to introduce him, but Laughing Jack is nowhere to be seen, Isaac's mother scolds him and leaves, when Laughing Jack appears and tells Isaac that he can't let anyone else see him, only Isaac.

One day, when Isaac and Laughing Jack are playing pirates in the back garden, Isaac spots the neighbor's cat, and asks Jack to grab the cat. Jack's arms stretch out to grab the cat and Jack and Isaac laugh, but Jack's arms get tighter around the cat until Jack accidently breaks the cat's neck, killing it. Laughing Jack is shocked that he accidently killed the cat, but Isaac just laughs and throws the cat over the fence into the neighbor's garden. That evening, Isaac's father is told by the neighbor that Isaac killed the cat and Isaac is told he will be sent to a boarding school until his education is finished, and won't be allowed to take Jack's box with him. Jack promises to stay at the house until Isaac returns.

As the years pass, the colour in Jack's box fades, as does the colours of Jack himself, every day, when he hears the front door, he hopes it's Isaac back from the boarding school, but the heavy boots mean it's only Isaac's father. One night, from inside his box, Jack overhears an argument between Isaac's parents and hears Isaac's father laughing after a heavy thump. The next morning, Isaac's father is arrested for murdering his wife.

More years pass and Jack hears the door again, and hears 2 pairs of footsteps along with giggling and the voice of a familiar, yet unrecognizable man. The two enter Isaac's old room and Jack sees that the man is a grown up Isaac with a woman. Isaac doesn't hear Jack's shouting from the box. Jack gets jealous of the girl stealing Isaac's attention, until the woman accidently breaks a wine glass and Isaac, driven insane by years of his parents' abuse and the discipline from the boarding school, murders the woman in a fit of rage. Over the next few days, Jack watches from his box as Isaac uses his learned skills as a carpenter and upholsterer to fashion the woman's corpse into a leather chair, Jack smiles at the new 'game', the last of Jack's colour (The blue in his eyes), gone.

Over the next few months, Isaac becomes a twisted serial killer, murdering rude children and prostitutes and turning them into furniture. Jack enjoys the twisted torture sessions and wishes to join in Isaac's games. One day, one of the pieces of furniture made from Isaac's victims falls over and knocks Jack's box onto the floor, along with several of Isaac's tools. Isaac finds the box and remembers the times he spent with Jack. He turns the crank and sings along to 'Pop goes the Weasel', now sounding distorted due to the rusty gears. When nothing happens, Isaac throws the box into the corner of the room and goes to clean up his tools, when he hears a creepy voice call his name, sending a chill up his spine. Isaac sees the new, horrific looking version of Laughing Jack, all colour gone and replaced with black and white, the feathers in his shoulders now disheveled, his clothes torn, his hair now pitch black, his rainbow nose, now a black and white spike, his skin now the same deathly pale as Isaac's murder victims.

Isaac thinks he's seeing things, thinking Laughing Jack was just an imaginary friend, but Laughing Jack insists that he is real. Jack's stretchy arms wrap around Isaac and squeeze tightly, Isaac tries to scream, but can't. Jack keeps laughing as he hears each of Isaac's ribs break one by one, before dropping him on the floor, still alive. Jack is excited that he gets to play with Isaac again, but this time, with no one to interrupt them.

Cast

 * TBA as Laughing Jack
 * TBA as Isaac
 * TBA as Adult Isaac
 * TBA as Isaac's father
 * TBA as Isaac's mother
 * TBA as Isaac's neighbor
 * TBA as Isaac's boarding school teacher
 * TBA as Isaac's first victim