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16 years ago
A local horror film company is advertising for scripts, and I thought I'd try bashing out a lower-budgeted version of my werewolf-vs-zombies "epic" Dark Calling. From the website it looks like it's a very, VERY low budget affair, but considering Miss Monster made a quite decent werewolf suit for a couple hundred bucks, I don't consider that too much of a stumbling block. Zombie make-up is very easy, the cast size is small and most of the shooting takes place in the woods, which of course has it's own attendant problems but saves on a lot of others.
So, the story. Basically zombies are the result of people dying while in the throes of what you might call bad karma - being anxious, depressed, full of rage, negative emotions. If someone is a big enough karmic black hole, their spirit can't escape their dead body and their rotting corpse goes around sucking the souls out of other people and turning them into zombie asshats, too. Eventually the body decays into uselessness and the spirit dissolves into nothingness, but in the meantime zombie-ness contagious like hell. And considering how stressed out, fearful and angry people are nowadays, we're poised for an epidemic.
The werewolf character is, by day, a psychiatrist specializing in troubled teens with anger issues. He's gathered together a group of his toughest cases and is taking them on a "wilderness therapy retreat" where having to rough it in the woods will suppsedly teach them co-operation, discipline, self-esteem and constructive ways to channel their anger. In fact, he's scouting for a successor . . . by night, he hunts down zombies in his wolf form, tearing them to shreds before they can create more of their kind, but he's getting old and wants to retire from the whole bloody business.
There's other stuff going on besides, but that's the bones of it. You've got a bunch of young people - inexperienced actors work cheap! - out in the woods trying to not to get chomped on by zombies, which is a rather classic horror movie situation, but then there's also the fact that the last man (or woman) standing is going end up a lycanthrope themself, heir to a long line of shapeshifting zombie-killers so there's not one of those perfectly happy endings I despise. There's plenty of oppotunity for carnage and gore, and you can get away with showing more blood and guts if they come from a zombie instead of a person. And it's a somewhat different premise from the usual werewolf movie (although I admit The Howling did the werewolf therapist first, think of it as an homage to John Sayles).
Fake poster is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2192392/
On the subject of movies, I've posted another cinematic masterpiece on Youtube, entitled "Nip!". Leading man Oscar Wildecat demonstrates the manual dexterity that allows him to open doors, drawers and cabinets, but in this clip he only uses it to get high faster than the cats with inferior paw/eye co-ordination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzV9mo53Q0I
So, the story. Basically zombies are the result of people dying while in the throes of what you might call bad karma - being anxious, depressed, full of rage, negative emotions. If someone is a big enough karmic black hole, their spirit can't escape their dead body and their rotting corpse goes around sucking the souls out of other people and turning them into zombie asshats, too. Eventually the body decays into uselessness and the spirit dissolves into nothingness, but in the meantime zombie-ness contagious like hell. And considering how stressed out, fearful and angry people are nowadays, we're poised for an epidemic.
The werewolf character is, by day, a psychiatrist specializing in troubled teens with anger issues. He's gathered together a group of his toughest cases and is taking them on a "wilderness therapy retreat" where having to rough it in the woods will suppsedly teach them co-operation, discipline, self-esteem and constructive ways to channel their anger. In fact, he's scouting for a successor . . . by night, he hunts down zombies in his wolf form, tearing them to shreds before they can create more of their kind, but he's getting old and wants to retire from the whole bloody business.
There's other stuff going on besides, but that's the bones of it. You've got a bunch of young people - inexperienced actors work cheap! - out in the woods trying to not to get chomped on by zombies, which is a rather classic horror movie situation, but then there's also the fact that the last man (or woman) standing is going end up a lycanthrope themself, heir to a long line of shapeshifting zombie-killers so there's not one of those perfectly happy endings I despise. There's plenty of oppotunity for carnage and gore, and you can get away with showing more blood and guts if they come from a zombie instead of a person. And it's a somewhat different premise from the usual werewolf movie (although I admit The Howling did the werewolf therapist first, think of it as an homage to John Sayles).
Fake poster is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2192392/
On the subject of movies, I've posted another cinematic masterpiece on Youtube, entitled "Nip!". Leading man Oscar Wildecat demonstrates the manual dexterity that allows him to open doors, drawers and cabinets, but in this clip he only uses it to get high faster than the cats with inferior paw/eye co-ordination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzV9mo53Q0I
hell if i was in america i would offer to act in it
for egnough gore and lolwut moments id be all over it
The cat vid is pretty funny too.
That way cult classics are made. Just look at the Rocky Horror movie...
First you say zombiehood automatically happens at death of depressed people
Then you say the zombies are creating more of their kind
Could you create a connection between these two things? Curse? Poison? Effect of the zombies' mutual black hole field?
As an extra plot loop, have his first successor fail horribly/get eaten by zombies/have to battle zombie werewolf then but of course the "good guys" win over that by the power of ... cowork or luck or cleverness.
Definitely attach the poster you made, it will make the script look more impressive and serious next to other submissions.