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I'm gonna do one about coming home to care for a grandparent at the end of their life.
Sounds great.
I'm doing coming home too. But it will be a broke, directionless millennial returning home after college. Heavy on the comedy. So probably nothing like yours at all.
Ok - my exam is over so now I can concentrate on this. Here is where I am at if anyone is interested
Title: 42.2
Genre: Horror/Sci-fi
World History (pre-movie): The year 2050 - Earth is covered in electrical storms grounding all flights indefinitely. Global travel now takes weeks instead of hours. To combat this, a gravity train is built connecting Europe to Australia reducing travel time between the two continents to 42.2 minutes. On its debut journey carrying 150 passengers, the train arrives in Australia with only one survivor. The others have either killed each other or killed themselves. The survivor recounts that the gravity train passes directly through Hell and drove everyone to madness. The gravity train still operates (mainly unmanned cargo) but is still open to passengers if they choose to - strangely, not many people take that option.
Logline: When an absent mother learns of her daughter's imminent death, she decides to be by her side. But to get there in time, she must travel to Hell and back on the controversial gravity train.
I like the core idea here. I think the bit I'm stumbling on is the travelling through the core makes me think of the fact they do this in the Total Recall remake, and I didn't like the movie.
Just my view, but if you put it in the modern day and changed the mode of transport, you'd have something very intriguing.
Ignore them all, Matthew. I love the gravity train idea and I like the fact its going through the core.
The gravity plus hell thing was done in Event Horizon, but that's one of my favourite ever films. Stylistically science plus horror just works so well.
The gravity plus hell thing was done in Event Horizon, but that's one of my favourite ever films. Stylistically science plus horror just works so well.
What a fun flick. I'd give my left leg for a chance to see all the crazy lost footage they filmed for the Hell scenes.
Lots of horror films shed light on the problems with our reality. I've been thinking about it and I believe that my concept will mainly be an allegory for the common occurrences of having to break ties with old family members and change who you are after starting your own family. Also, it shows that lying is wrong and the importance of prioritizing future generations.
Has anyone else thought about what their script mirrors in society?
I'm late to the discussion here but I think I'm gonna hop in on this challenge and have my idea about 75% fleshed out. I'm struggling with one thing tho...
What's a good motive for a kidnapping? In an innocent way, at least? For example, a loving, caring father is revealed to have a young child kidnapped and hidden in his basement.
I thought about going the route of his wife struggles having a child, so he kidnaps the girl to treat as his own child, but I was told that that was too DON'T BREATHE.
My other idea was that the kidnapped girl is actually a twin of our main character (a college freshman girl) who was hidden in the basement for some reason. I would think because she was too aggressive or something was wrong with her, but alas, Simpsons did it already during a Halloween episode.
My mind can go to darker places, but, I was told to keep this script classy, so...
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