"If I can get them depressed, then I'll have done my job." Michael Scott
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So with Halloween around the corner some time, and Zombieland having run rampant in the theatres the past two weeks, I'd just like to say. I'm kind of tired of zombies. They're in our video games, in our movies, parades/marches, books; almost every form of entertainment we hold dear. It was a cool concept originally conceived as just the dead coming alive and doing nothing else but just wandering around. Then Romero and his crew came by and added the idea of cannibalism, for no real reason, genius as it was. What's more terrifying than seeing people that used to be sensible, suddenly take to chaotic acts in an uncontrolled mess that spills out into the streets.
But it's become overdone to the point where we are now having to resort to abstinence vampires who don't want to hurt the ones they love. Beautiful, hunky, emotionally dense vampires.
Don't get me wrong, but all of the horror genres are getting kind of lazy with what they've been creating the past decade and a half. Nothing really original has sprang up and we've even started ripping off Japanese horrors that don't make any sense to us as it stands. I think there was even a movie that was trying to have a "Facebook Killer" of sorts where the guy kills everyone on his friends list. You can only ignore his friend invite so long before you give in! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!
I think there needs to be a new form of fear that is much more unsettling than we're willing to accept. Charlie Kauffman had an interesting concept behind Synecdoche, NY. It is an actual nightmare he had, brought to life on the big screen. What was so horrifying about it? That life sucked; plain and simple. Just as soon as you think you're happy and okay with everything, you tend to fuck it all up and write it off as if it doesn't exist. But the fear is how long you take it, knowing that this entire self depreciating mess is all your fault.
I actually can't watch Synecdoche, NY again because it is so dense and filled with this deep seeded depression and fears of someone else, that you can't help but take it into your own mind and fill your own head with it.
There isn't any horde of Zombies waiting for me in the parking lot outside. There's nothing out there. For me at all. And that's a much more personal kind of scary than anything else.
But on the off chance that your life is awesome and cool, I guess I would wish zombies would eat your brains out too.
yetis will be the next big thing once they learn that all it takes is a hairless chest and pecks
ReplyDeletethe wolf man can never be cool because of furies/ or will only be cool after furies form their own civil rights movement
the creature from the black lagoon has potential due to being wet a shinny and a swimmer and i am almost surprised he and his female counter part have not made a come back
in my personal opinion a demon who takes the appearance of a human and or is often unseen and intelligent would be the next great source of original horror stories (Jennifer's body) but due to the anti intellectual stance of america this will not be embraced until obama and kanye west can teach america its cool to think about stuff and things
my other idea would be monsters/beasts with large genitalia that would for a large percentage of the movie kill without being seen fully in camera and then finally lead into a shot something along the lines of the sense in he boondocks episode about prison rape. leading into a long chase scene with wangs a swinging and a fear inducing sexual tension brought on by a monster proportionally monstrous genitalia and all the thought and feelings that that creates in a person.
1. They are making a new Wolfman movie.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9KMh4Q3jgM
Furry Civil Rights movement? They should make a movie about that. And make it like a knock off of Milk.
2. Black Lagoon does seem like a pretty cool idea. Water in general is an alien world to us, yet is right in front of us.
3. I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not. My take on demons is that not a lot of people are religious or anything anyways, so having anything that relates to religion can peter off into a nonsensical story line that involves people writing about things they don't understand. Where this pulls itself off correctly is when it's done tongue in cheek, much like the Evil Dead series.
Although, no one quite does the devil like Tim Curry from Legend.
4. Large genitalia would be an interesting move, it's just that the novelty of it might wear down after the first half hour. It has to be a complete secret, until the end. Like, having the audience question it at first like, "are they really going this direction?" and then "OH MY GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I'M WATCHING!"
To finish point 1:
ReplyDeleteAnd have it end like Kennedy... or a shakespearean tragedy.