Okay, one quickie question.

We can't mention "Halloween"...but...what about Samhain ????

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the guy in the wheelchair into the abandoned house.  There's no ramp and his wheels are stuck in the mud.

I think I'm gonna have to pass on this OWC.  

I'm in this One with the go deep gloves to my elbows.  2 pages in, easily going to be pushing the 10 page mark unfortunately.  Wish I could wrangle it into 6 or 7 pages.  But I think it's gonna be a good story and I should be able to meet the requirements of the challenge.  

Not gonna rush it - Even at 10 pages this will seem complete.

"You can do anything to the house, except burn it down."

Since you said "you can", "anything" includes "nothing" right? I mean do I have to do something to the house at all?

Quoted from screenrider I'm still trying to figure out how to get the guy in the wheelchair into the abandoned house.  There's no ramp and his wheels are stuck in the mud. I think I'm gonna have to pass on this OWC.

Aw, man!
Don't wuss out!

Do-gooder grandson has brought gimpy grandpa back to his childhood home.
Grandpa comments on the overgrown privet.
Grandson thoughtfully backs the wheelchair up to the steps and pulls grandpa up one step atta time.
A few grunts later, maybe a nicked knuckle later, and they are through the front door into the cobwebbed foyer where great grandpa told grandpa how great, great grandma hung herself from the banister.

Professor Cripplestein returns with two lab assistants to retrieve the contents of a file cabinet in the basement.
A few screams later and he's spending the night on the front porch steps all by himself.

Brad & Janet experience a blow-out on a dark and stormy night near an abandoned house.
Upon entering, in search of a phone, they find the house not so abandoned afterall.
It seems Dr. Scott has been conducting some experiments of his own.


C'mon!
Givit a wee try.
My daddy always says "It works better if you grunt!"
I tell my kids to say aloud "It's impossible. It can't be done. It's impossible. It can't be done."
And sure enough...

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Quoted from khamanna "You can do anything to the house, except burn it down." Since you said "you can", "anything" includes "nothing" right? I mean do I have to do something to the house at all?

I'm guessing that's an affirmative on the nothing.
Likewise, I guess it mean we can't detonate it to kingdom come, either.
Which probably means no tornado destruction or micro-blackholes or whatever that was at the end of Poltergeist.

Can it "Poof!" dissappear, ala David Copperfield?
Hmm...

Quoted from screenrider I'm still trying to figure out how to get the guy in the wheelchair into the abandoned house.  There's no ramp and his wheels are stuck in the mud. I think I'm gonna have to pass on this OWC.

Is that really stumping you, screen?

Have the other guy carry him up the steps then go back and drag the wheelchair up.

Or the crippled guy just drags himself and his chair up the steps.

Or the the crippled guy gets struck by lightning and he can walk again.

Or the house has a drawbridge because the guy who built was just that kooky.

Don't even get me started on the jet pack idea.

This sounds like a smashing challenege, think I'll give it a go.
Halloween is out, but what about Samhain, All Hallow's Eve, etc.?

E.D.

Quoted from screenrider I'm still trying to figure out how to get the guy in the wheelchair into the abandoned house.  There's no ramp and his wheels are stuck in the mud. I think I'm gonna have to pass on this OWC.

You could give the guy a super fast, motor powered wheelchair. Like Corey Haim had in Silver Bullet. But put on some serious mud treads. And a license plate that reads "Jesus loves me!"

James

Quoted from Don 'kurisuborosen' wins the award* for the fastest OWC submission ever.  Nailed Genre, Theme and Limitations. *The "Award", if you can track me down and confirm you are who you say you are without frightening me, consists of an awkward limp hand shake and two (2) pats on the back.  The award must be claimed within 24 hours. It's a pretty awesome award considering I don't like being touched.

Yup.  I'm seriously up for that limp handshake and those pats on the back.  

I'm felling pretty proud of myself actually.

Interesting considerations:

Write gore-porn horror for an American audience or psychological horror for an international audience?

Madman-with-axe = passe

Near future = Brutal vampire
Developing future = Zombie
Fashionably in season =  Monster

Decide between the instant marketability of contemporary horror or anticipate future markets?

EDIT: And then there's the bonus consideration of having iScript present a visual story as just voice and sound!

Quoted from SS *R.E. hope this is taken in the spirit in which it was intended.

I just woke up after a rather heavy night. Must have stared at the screen goin' What the Bejasus for about a full five minutes.

And that spirit is whiskey.

You're on, Don.

R xx

Can special effects be employed to duplicate characters, such as used in The Prestige and Moon?

Quoted from screenrider I'm still trying to figure out how to get the guy in the wheelchair into the abandoned house.  There's no ramp and his wheels are stuck in the mud.

Don't throw in the towel just yet. I found a way to get around it. If I can, others can.

Quoted from stevie Maybe he doesn't become wheelchair bound till the second page?

The male actor is in a wheelchair.