The movie is only 1 hr and 25 min which is kind of short... even for a horror.

I've watched the first 13mins so far!  

Quoted from Grandma Bear The movie is only 1 hr and 25 min which is kind of short... even for a horror. I've watched the first 13mins so far!

I timed it at 77 minutes excluding credits, 30 mins shorter than that script.

Hold on, are we watching the movie or reading the script?

I think the discussion of the script just spurred interest in the film...

We are supposed to be discussing the script.

IMHO, the movie is alright... not great, but provides a couple of mild jumps. I would be very interested in discussing the script because it's way simple, way short and as a quarter finalist in the most prestigeous screenwriting competition, I really do think it would be a good one to study.

I think that we want to watch the film as well as read the script to add more dimension to our conversation about the script.

Quoted from Grandma Bear Misery is a fast, but great read. Jaws I haven't read yet, but I'd cool with that one.

I thought Jeff was joking there. :;

Sandra

I don't know.  Jaws was a much more popular movie than The Strangers.

what is this WC collaberation thing I'm reading in here?  sounds like fun.

Whatever we choose, it can't be worse than Soylent Green.

What a stupid New Years resolution I made: Watch more movies. I should have qualified it with good movies. But how do you know until you watch?

With Soylent Green, I was thinking: No worries Shiva. You'll be just fine with any lapses in technological advancements. Soylent Green, apparently from 2022, had black spiral corded phones and video game terminals the size of a small footstool. It went clink blink like pong and had a few stars on the screen.

It's not that bad though. What did we know any different? I really loved Sol and the scene of his "going home". I love Sol!

Anyways, for future script clubs maybe consider: Tuesdays With Morrie. I haven't watched the movie or read the script, but I've read the book  by Mitch Albom and I love it.

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. With Soylent Green, I was thinking: No worries Shiva. You'll be just fine with any lapses in technological advancements. Soylent Green, apparently from 2022, had black spiral corded phones and video game terminals the size of a small footstool. It went clink blink like pong and had a few stars on the screen.

Well, it's all really just guesswork when thinking about technology of the future.  I'm still yet to see a flying car like the Jetsons had.  Considering Soylent Green was made in 1973, it deserves a free pass on technology.  The 2012 remake will probably be closer to what will be available in 2022.

A funny one for tech reference is War Games.  When the film was made, it was top of the line technology.  The computers were as big as refrigerators.

So I guess we're looking at The Strangers, since we can get the script easily enough. One topic worth covering this time once we've discussed the script is the changes made from the script to the screen, but I feel like we should try and cover the script as thoroughly as possible before in what worked and what didn't, and why this script would have been chosen as a finalist in a competition before we move on to how the movie finally turned out. This will give people time to actually watch the movie, if they are so inclined, since the transition from script to screen will provide some nice insights, but we want to keep the screen topic for last and concentrate only on the script (as much as possible) to begin with.

A time frame for starting on this would be after the writing of the 2WC, since those of us who are writing will want to keep our minds in that exercise till it's over. If there are no objections, I'll make the official "announcement" on the 19th, since the 2WC scripts are due by midnight on the 16th.

I agree on the strangers

I can't say that I was impressed with the film, but that makes me even more curious as to how this script was a quarter finalist in the most prestigous screenplay competition and how come it was greenlighted.

It would be interesting to try to figure that out. If we can.

I agree with you Pia.  And the funny thing is that horror, and this type of movie in particular, is my thing, but I wasn't thrilled with it at all, and I'm amazed it did so well at hte Box Office.

I like films like that too.

What's good about it though is that in these times a lot of people are trying to write low budget scripts and this one certainly fits that category.

I liked Vacancy much better and that one is also a low budget horror.