Quoted from Female Gaze I feel that I must. I spent all last night reading every real-life mystery/horror story the web had to offer and haven't been to sleep since. So I'm in!

Best excuse ever. Welcome!  

~Zack~

I didn't get as bruised as I usually do in the last OWC. I'm game for this baby.

Plus, I've been writing two horror features -- Chupacabra, which has a draft on here somewhere, and an 80s-style slasher that's still a WIP.

And if that weren't enough, I'm fired up over the Friday the 13th cancellation and the Halloween news. I'm ready for some blood-soaked fun.

Glad to have you apart of the group, Chris.

~Zack~

Would you guys prefer to vote on the sub-genre? Or have it random?

~Zack~

Count me in!

Scarefest! That's a blast from the past. I remember writing a couple of scripts for Scarefest way back. I'm definitely going to try and do this.

Random

I haven't written anything for a while and this sounds like the perfect way to get my fingers tapping on keys again - count me in!

Brian, Alffy, and  Steve, welcome! Happy to have you.

Anthony, I also believe it should be random.

Alffy, I still remember your Scarefest script "Meat Pies". Good times. lol

~Zack~

Meat Pies lol. I wrote that in a couple hours because I didn't like my first script and I remember you loved it lol.

Funnily though Meat Pies went on to be my favourite feature 'Pub Lunch', and the short it replaced turned out to be 'The Chocolatier' which is my personal favourite script, short or otherwise lol.

Scarefest then has good memories for me.

Quoted from alffy Meat Pies lol. I wrote that in a couple hours because I didn't like my first script and I remember you loved it lol. Funnily though Meat Pies went on to be my favourite feature 'Pub Lunch', and the short it replaced turned out to be 'The Chocolatier' which is my personal favourite script, short or otherwise lol. Scarefest then has good memories for me.

It's time to make some great new memories.  

~Zack~

Great idea but I'm going to have to pass on this one. I've got too much on but I'll keep an eye on the scripts and try to give some a read.

Just to reiterate(or honestly, copy and paste ) what I said on the of the horror sub-genre thread...

Tomorrow night I'm going to do the draw. I'm going to draw two sub-genres from a hat, and allow the writers to chose between the two. Or if the writer would like, they can combine the two.

Remember people, this is not an anonymous challenge. Talk about your work. I'm not saying show each other your scripts, just talk about them. Share the title and the logline, stuff like that.

Here is the list of sub genres.

Slasher
Body Horror
Zombies
Monster
Psychological
Haunted House
Supernatural
Torture Porn
Found Footage
Nature Horror
Cosmic Horror
Gothic Horror
Comedy Horror
Witchcraft
Splatter
Cannibal
Erotic Horror
Giallo
Dark Fantasy
Science-Fiction Horror
J-Horror

Good luck people.

~Zack~

I wish we could submit a few we don't want.  In my opinion, who wants to read cannibal, splatter and what is gialio?

What is dark fantasy horror? Thanks for not including such narrow genre like vomit horror and self mutilation and other random things like the Ginnea Pig series.  I don't think anyone wants to read a screenplay for Flowers of Flesh and Blood.

Oh, is it OK if we use genre that weren't chosen?  In other words, lets say slasher and cosmic are picked.  Can we use dark fantasy as the planet backdrop or say include zombies?

Thanks,
Dan

Quoted from DanC Oh, is it OK if we use genre that weren't chosen?  In other words, lets say slasher and cosmic are picked.  Can we use dark fantasy as the planet backdrop or say include zombies?

If you could find a way to add zombies to a slasher script, go for it. But the script must primarily be the sub-genre chosen.

~Zack~