Andddd it's October. Bumping this hoping it'll generate some more interest and perhaps an actual OWC thread.  

We could just organise it ourselves.

Genre: Horror     (Duh!)
Theme: Crows &/or Rats
Challenge: Ten page/minute lo budget horror involving crows &/or rats

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Go crazy.

I've already written a horror feature about crows.

Already done the Rat. Kind of.

Are you gonna head up this one Ray?

Head it up?!
Pfft.
Haaaaail, no.

I'm taking a big break from screenwriting and indie/am filmmaking.
Just got my head too stuck inside the business part of it, was getting foul and pissy, needed to step back and find my creative witty humor side again.

I'm just watching this October tradition from afar.
Participated (beyond par) in the last three years.
Miiiiight (likely) take a break on this fourth year of mine around these here parts.

I just don't wanna watch a good thing goto waste.
Don't know what caused "The Fall of Movie Poet", would hate to see something similar happen here.
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I might just wanna watch some "football" instead of play "football" this year.
Might just watch the "superbowl", juno?

If it needs somebody to head up an OWC, I wouldn't mind stepping up to the plate. I could handle it all myself... but scripts would need to be sent to me where I could host them from my server. Or use dropbox and send me a link. I wouldn't even need any special powers, aside from maybe the ability to start a thread in the correct section if it isn't available already.

One year, the genre/theme to the Halloween OWC was comedy/carving pumpkins (or something like that).  A lot of people went ballistic over it.


Phil

I think with sufficient creativity ANYTHING can be turned into a horror story of sorts.

I need an October Horror OWC, as I absolutely hate San Antonio, TX.  It's slumsville/ghettoville, with the ugliest, fattest peeps I've ever seen.  Disgusting.

Please, Don, give us soemthing to look forward to.  

Quoted from dogglebe One year, the genre/theme to the Halloween OWC was comedy/carving pumpkins (or something like that).  A lot of people went ballistic over it. Phil

By ballistic, I take it you mean it didn't go down that well? What were the entries like? I imagine there were many so-so scripts and piss-takes. Comedy is hard.

I'd love to see a straight horror micro short with minimal dialogue or restrictions on dialogue. The entries would be fast reads and the ingenious ones would shine through and hopefully pack a punch. Just a thought.

Quoted from Dreamscale I need an October Horror OWC, as I absolutely hate San Antonio, TX.  It's slumsville/ghettoville, with the ugliest, fattest peeps I've ever seen.  Disgusting. Please, Don, give us soemthing to look forward to.

Oh, dear. Looks like a another move might be on the cards?

Quoted from Dreamscale I absolutely love living in San Antonio TX!  Some of my new friends may be fat and amazingly ugly but they are always ready to accommodate - and indeed experiment with - my unusual sexual tendencies. Cowboy fans in particular have become a delicacy for me I look forward to each night.   Suffice to say that I may not have time to participate in a new OWC

That's my buddy Jeff. Always willing to take one for the team...

Quoted from Dreamscale I need an October Horror OWC, as I absolutely hate San Antonio, TX.  It's slumsville/ghettoville, with the ugliest, fattest peeps I've ever seen.  Disgusting.

Sadly, Jeff's new job is with the San Antonio board of tourism.

Hopefully we get a drumbeat tomorrow.

Quoted from Dreamscale I need an October Horror OWC, as I absolutely hate San Antonio, TX.  It's slumsville/ghettoville, with the ugliest, fattest peeps I've ever seen.  Disgusting. Please, Don, give us soemthing to look forward to.

If you feel that passionate about it, why not just write about it anyway? Do you need permission to write? Regarding your description of where you live, I think you will fit in just fine.

Regarding the OWC -bit of a flat idea, with all due respect.  Bit bland.
I remember a film from the 80s, some Italian thing, where people were trapped in an apocalyptic world and had to enter the sewers to survive, as the nuclear fallout wouldn't really benefit their health.

They encountered the nasty rodents several times -- and many were killed in various ways. Although, VHS quality never really revealed how anyone died... just people laying in puddles with rats on them and pounding music blaring out with the accompanying screams of HELP ME! RATS ARE EATING ME ALIVE! AHHHGGGH!

The ending nearly made me shit my pants. The whole movie had been a dud, then all of a sudden they lay this on me.
I was 7 or 8 years old, mum and dad both had fallen asleep. I did like the film but I was pleased to see anything over a PG rating at the time.
The shock was -- biological scientific soldiers have come to save our two heroes as they emerge from the sewers. The world is great again! Everything is fine!
Oh... But wait. GAS MASK removes his apparatus and low and behold -- he�s a giant RAT!
Lol. It was awesome at the time.

Would it be "Cat's Eyes- The movie" with the giant rat as the end segment?
I always felt sorry for the rat...

Or "Nightmares" 1983.

Can't remember which was which.

I think in both segments, the rat was somewhat angry, but had a reason. She/he just wanted her dead baby back. I can't watch those segments, it upsets me. Animals and kids -- nah, I'm out. Too many tears. I can watch adult actors being destroyed in a fictional world, but nothing to do with animals or kids.  I think it's because they are largely defenceless, and they depend on us to help them. When you see such a trust betrayed... it's just soul destroying.