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[Raym]

Please help me with this horror-idea. I trust you guys =)

A female gravedigger that gets fired for stealing the dead's clothing and selling them to Goodwill, saves up and purchases a rather hilly bit of land in Ireland. Oddly, there is a lone circle of trees in the horizon. And her cows are dead. One late chilly night, she notices strange lights hovering above the circle. In the morning, there's a LARGE crop circle-formation on one of the green hilly hills.

Shovel in hand, she digs up the circle and discovers a league of tiny dead gray corpses with large eyes and pouting lips. But they're in the nude, and do her no good; so she decides to sell them to The Church. They tell her that for decades their people, the Irish, have been plagued by tiny fairies that kill their cows with even tinier poisonous darts, but no one believed them. "Now we have proof!" says a nun longingly.

However... With their headstone/crop-circle ruined, and their bodies dug up, the rotting aliens come alive and "zombifie" the tiny town. All who get bitten by them, however, turn into something awful (whatever that is).

That's where I'm stuck.
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[mandor700]

Why not make it instead of comming back to loife, its like the aliens brethren (that arent dead) that come to reep revenge on the person/people. Make it that the aliens have some type of Nuero-toxin secreting gland in their mouth that makes the people who it bites go phychotically (excuse the spelling) insane and also go like gangrenous so their limbs start to fal off.

Aliens scare me way more than zombies!

[AJ]

Can you sell clothes to goodwill? and if so, how many tonnes of clothes would you need before you could buy a piece of Ireland??

Seriously though, it sounds like you have a far out idea there, very high concept: Aliens = Leprechauns.

Leprechauns are renowned for their cobbling skills, maybe you can get the shoemaking angle in there?

Your lead character is relying on clothes sales to fund her land purchasing, perhaps she harnesses the shoe-making skills of the now zombiefied Aliens to create a new line of shoes...?

Good luck with your script.

[Alex O]

Wow - with a little tweaking this could be the next Highlander 2 or Jason X! I think what's missing are robots. Robots are totally sweet and all aliens have robots to do their dirty work. I love the idea of her selling the dead people's clothes to buy land in Ireland - it's so original!

The nun has to be a real badass if she's going to battle the aliens. I'm thinking maybe Whoopi Goldberg because she she's played a nun before, and Wesley Snipes could play the part of the village shoe cobbler (This would synergize with the leprechaun angle).

Snipes, alarmed at the prospect of aliens/leprechauns stealing his business or something like that teams up with Goldberg and together they kick some major extraterrestial ass using totally kickass improvised weapons, eg, arrows with explosive heads, laser-guided bullets, and acid-filled grenades.

Meanwhile, a love interest has been developing between the Whoopi and Snipes, and finally she:
(a) tells him she loves him, but will remain faithful to her nun vows and spends the rest of her life raising the children orphaned by the aliens

Or

(b) she resigns the convent and marries Snipes. The sequel would then take place 20 years later. The aliens return, and this time they're really, really p***ed, but luckily the children of Goldberg and Snipes have been preparing for this, and have an arsenal of even sweeter kick-ass weapons.

If I had any money, I would consider optioning this.

[Raym]

Thanks for the feedback, guys

Love all the ideas. And keep'em coming! This is all very helpful and very cool.

[voorhees13]

you could have the lady fired for stealing jewelry or something, and pawning that off cfor money.

[mandor700]

Yea that would be a bit more realistic than selling cloths, you could even go so far as to have her selling gold from the teth.

[mikeysbistro]

nice concept,

for some reason I'd love to see a banshee in there, either as a competing alien race (good guys?) or as maybe an older magical natural creature - have the banshee appear and all the greys scatter like mad

maybe the banshee wants revenge on the greys for killing it's home world - it doesn't really care about the humans just considers them local plant life but goes about it's business of revenge no matter who gets in the way

I was also thinking maybe you could have some artifact that can repel the greys, but it's been lost in time, and now all that's left are legends about it (enter old hag, or somebody to "remember" a tale told by her great grandfather something like that)

so now you have a quest, maybe it's a technological artifact or biological weapon against the greys

maybe add a love interest? he could be the guy who's tracking down the legend for the artifact, they team up to defeat the greys but now the whole village have become alien zombies/vampires - enter the banshee who starts hacking up the zombie/vampires or whatever etc.

I like your strong female lead something's "right" about that so keep the female stronger than the male companion - maybe have him become a zombie accidentally by being a jerk or by being heroic and sacrificing himself, or maybe dying to get the artifact but getting for the female heroine (perhaps they had a previous rocky relationship, he says sorry by dying for her)

Okay now I've gone too far ... I can't keep the ideas straight any longer