Horror Movie Idea

[krtshadow]

Actually (and I can't speak for others) I was thinking this would be far more intense if it were a slower thing. Think Hitchc*ck.

Dil, eveyrbody's got their own way of writing, but yours seems a bit backward to me. If you have a great story and great characters let them run loose in your head for a while, see what they do. I'm always surprised at some decisions my characters make.

[DAD]

Whatever happened to plots? Even horror and slasher films should have a decent plot or all you have is nonsense wrapped around a bunch of frights and killings. You need a reason WHY surrounded by good characters to find out WHY. If you have characters that people can care about it makes the frights all the more frightening. And a reason WHY these things are happening makes the frightener more believable. H*ll, in the original stories for Jason, Freddy, and Mike there was enough of a back story to tell WHY these guys were doing what they were doing. It makes them scarier to know a little bit of their psychosis ... people sometimes find that they can identify with it and that makes it REALLY scary when you can understand WHY someone is doing something horrible.

Oh, Dil? Why are you screaming at us? It's rude to scream in small rooms at people. This is a small room. Turn off your caps and stop screaming.

David

[krtshadow]

Thanks, Dad, that was what I was attempting to say. Didn't have enough coffee in me yet.

Dad and I have talked about this before. Gore and killing does not a scary movie make. All the greats are scariest when you CAN'T see what's happening.

[Raym]

Very true. And yet...

I wonder if it's possible to see something in a film that is scarier than you could ever imagine.

[DAD]

The only thing I have found scarier than something I've seen in a film is living. Life scares me more than any film ever could. ;-)

[krtshadow]

showgirls...that was the scariest thing i ever saw

[Dil]

Place your self in a dark room and take a tape player with u the colder the room the better.

Find a decent place and go there on your own, where i live there is this old mental home it's fucked up.

Once you r there stand still/go alone/at night.

Turn on the tape recorder and then tune into ur radio stations until u get white noise/static, make sure be very very carful that all u can hear is white noise and then once ur sure press record on ur tape player and stay there for at least 1/2 an hour if u can and if u can ask u few questions or just talk.

Once ur done get the hell out of there and go home rewind ur tape and listen very carfully if all went well then im certainly sure that this will be the scarest thing u will ever witness/hear.

try it ;D

[krtshadow]

i read that in Legion (william peter blatty's book that exorcist III was made out of).

never tried it, what'd you get dil?

incidentally, are there any ghost hunters in here?

[mandor700]

I did that once, or kinda like it i didnt have the radio on static tho, there was this radiostation that just had nothing playing and it was making noises like from Signs.

After I listend to it it was real freaky I could swear I could hear like footsteps and far off screams.

I went to this old abandoned schoolhouse from the 1920s its the coolest place for horror.

[AJ]

Ah yes... the power of the mind. The most frightening things are definitely those unspoken fears that whisper in your subconcious.

What is going on in the town that has made it's occupants lose the ability to quieten their innermost fears?

Make it can be some kind of illness, an actual virus that is affecting the nervous systems of the victims. Kind of the 'Rage' from '28 Days Later' but as a 'Fear' instead.

The old 'madness is contagious' idea, I suppose.

[Dil]

What did i get, i got alot of static but it wasint until my friend had a listen and we could clearly hear someone laugh and say

"Dont stay, i dont like it"

That was after i asked if the ghosts can still get laid

Im back again with some others this time just to get some location shots as after that incedent i decided to base my film around this old mental home.

which was one of the reasons why this subject caught my eye.

Ghosts fucking rock!, and yet scare the pants off me

[mandor700]

Yea thats the truth,

I just found ot that the school i went to was where Peter Jacksin made the frighteners. I was thinking of doing some exteriors there and it looks like someone beat me to it, but hey, if its good enough for him its good enough for me.

[mddlclstwit]

hey, new to this site...think its fuggin great! aspiring screenwriter/director here in new orleans as well.

anyway, my boss was telling me me how when he lived in Vermont, I believe, when he was a teenager, there was this suburban community where he used to visit relatives that had an asylum just on the outskirts. Due to funding or something of that nature the asylum would release the no-violent patients on the weekends. this would cause quite alot of uneasyness when you would wake up on saturday morning and see several mental patients (some in just gowns) walking around your neighborhood aimlessly mumbleing to themselves. really not that strange in an urban setting ...hell it's quite normal here to see a variety of crazed,tormented individuals every 20 feet. But in a suburban environment that usually isn't tolerated, so you don't see it too much. Anyway your idea sparked in me that when he was telling me this I was picturing what he was decribing as if it was in a david lynch film or something....really weird and very spooky....nonetheless ....thats my two cents... I say set it in a suburban area.