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what would it be about? What type of horror film would you make?

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A sequel to The Thing (1982)

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Biography of t-Rump.

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How would that be scary? Lol

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It sounds boring. I see that guy everywhere I go and I just want a break from him.

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A creepy chef obsessed with a certain girl. He chases the girl and her boyfriend around the country with a butcher knife. Something like that.

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Great real honest answer to the question

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A chef? Hmmm...sounds like a plot bordering into a cannibalistic story.

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Our world is experiencing an increasing amount of spectral sightings. They are vague shapes that appear ghostly, but for some reason they can't explain no one thinks they are actually ghosts, at least not in the traditional sense. As the appearances increase, it starts to affect and disrupt daily lives until the climax when it's discovered that what everyone was seeing was the now thin barrier to hell,and those are demons on the other side trying to come through. Because of Man's devastating affect on this Earth, he has damned himself and the demons break through at the very end.

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Interesting. Sounds like a script I'm already working on.

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Even more shocking if after getting ripped apart she would inexplicably start singing and the movie turns into musical La La Land style. In the end, every characters have gay sex and thus revealing that the bokor is actually alien from an alien race that built the Stonehenge, but not the Pyramids. That was built by a different alien race not connected to this particular one in the movie.

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Okay first of all... AMAZING title. Love it.

Secondly... the psychological buildup breaking into violence is fantastic.

Lastly, because I'd love to run with this premise: I would go with a plausibly deniable threat, like supernatural demon-esque, ghost-like entities (wraith concept basically) that a viewer could interpret as either a hallucination, OR an entity that is only visible to ones who it wants to see it; alternatively, only visible to those who believe it's real; that kind of idea.

So the idea is to do your twist 100% at the same time both on the overall story level, and on the character experience level.

The twist being, of course, that the movie starts as a supernatural horror, then the main character gets paranoid about others and we start to understand the supernatural elements as figments of her imagination, even seeing her realizing this herself... But then just as the psychological element of the movie builds to a climax and misleading clues are being slipped to the viewer, the movie twists just as you described. The viewers find that they have been steadily lead away from the opening supernatural premise of the movie, which turns out to be completely true.

Damned wraiths everywhere. It's actually similar to The Lost Boys in this way. I realized that after I realized that line "Damned wraiths everywhere" was actually inspired by the last line in Lost Boys.

Oh and in November, I bumped into Dianne Wiest at the grocery store. She played the mom in that movie, among many other roles.

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That actually sounds like a great movie!

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There's a decided lack of movies made about monsters made out of dog food. I'd like to explore that motif.

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Or....

Dog food.......

Made out of monsters!!!

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I love the demonic possession horror films, or the films about seeing people you care about, but it isn't really them anymore, and they want to hurt you. Those type of horror movies always scared me the most and had the most emotional impact for me.

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I like demonic and satanic cult stuff too, where you can't trust loved ones in the vein of Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist

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Indeed, demonic possession films can be quite interesting. That is, as long as the plot doesn't completely stem from similarities of other possession films that have been done a million times.

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Here is an amateur short horror film I made with a friend... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9D1M-YjqL4

We've made other horror styled films on the channel, but this is the most "horror" like one.

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