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Idea I'm toying with....
16 years ago
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Hmm... well, here it goes.
I like horror films. Just about everybody I know realizes that. Well, the particular flavors that I like can vary... which is one reason I like the Anthology Film. Ranging from "Dead of Night" to "Trick 'r Treat," the anthology film gives you a lot of room for variety and, better yet, multiple stories built into one 'frame.' Multiple takes on one concept, if you're lucky. Which is where this idea came from.
Wolves.
The small town of Colton is used to rough winters. A mining town with a dead mine, now a farming town with mediocre farming, the people who live there do so out of a mix of tradition, desperation, and fatalism. Often, they've been in the area for generations... though there is some new blood, hoping to revive the small town.
Then, one winter, an ice storm hits beyond anything in recent memory. The entire city is snowed in, the small roads in and out of town blocked off, the power lines taken down by snow and ice, cell phones and radios *sometimes* able to make contact - but to no real good, since the entire region was hit hard and Colton isn't exactly high priority. Still, most of the people have generators and *some* supplies... as long as supplies hold out and help gets there in a day or two, they should be okay.
But as days turn into a week or more, what will happen? Without the comforts of civilization that even a small, rural town has, how long will civilization last?
Especially as the wolves begin to howl in the night, coming closer and closer to the town that has been weakening for so long?
That's the concept. The idea is to write several stories within that setting, building them into the framework of the 'framing story' and basically putting together a series of short stories built around this isolated town trying to survive the winter.
Cannibalistic inbred survivors of the mine's collapsing coming out for food?
A serial killer in town, preying on people and blaming it on the wolves?
A sexual deviant who, having lost his internet and all possible outlets for his kinks, snaps and takes advantage of this chance to act them out in real life?
A family slowly breaking down under cabin fever?
A tech geek quietly going mad now that he doesn't have the internet?
The townsfolk turning against a survivalist on the edge of the city who actually isn't suffering through this, but rather thriving, as much as anybody can, because he was better prepared?
All of these and more might be possible.
So - any interest in seeing the project happen? Anybody care to contribute?
I like horror films. Just about everybody I know realizes that. Well, the particular flavors that I like can vary... which is one reason I like the Anthology Film. Ranging from "Dead of Night" to "Trick 'r Treat," the anthology film gives you a lot of room for variety and, better yet, multiple stories built into one 'frame.' Multiple takes on one concept, if you're lucky. Which is where this idea came from.
Wolves.
The small town of Colton is used to rough winters. A mining town with a dead mine, now a farming town with mediocre farming, the people who live there do so out of a mix of tradition, desperation, and fatalism. Often, they've been in the area for generations... though there is some new blood, hoping to revive the small town.
Then, one winter, an ice storm hits beyond anything in recent memory. The entire city is snowed in, the small roads in and out of town blocked off, the power lines taken down by snow and ice, cell phones and radios *sometimes* able to make contact - but to no real good, since the entire region was hit hard and Colton isn't exactly high priority. Still, most of the people have generators and *some* supplies... as long as supplies hold out and help gets there in a day or two, they should be okay.
But as days turn into a week or more, what will happen? Without the comforts of civilization that even a small, rural town has, how long will civilization last?
Especially as the wolves begin to howl in the night, coming closer and closer to the town that has been weakening for so long?
That's the concept. The idea is to write several stories within that setting, building them into the framework of the 'framing story' and basically putting together a series of short stories built around this isolated town trying to survive the winter.
Cannibalistic inbred survivors of the mine's collapsing coming out for food?
A serial killer in town, preying on people and blaming it on the wolves?
A sexual deviant who, having lost his internet and all possible outlets for his kinks, snaps and takes advantage of this chance to act them out in real life?
A family slowly breaking down under cabin fever?
A tech geek quietly going mad now that he doesn't have the internet?
The townsfolk turning against a survivalist on the edge of the city who actually isn't suffering through this, but rather thriving, as much as anybody can, because he was better prepared?
All of these and more might be possible.
So - any interest in seeing the project happen? Anybody care to contribute?
