Can someone think of a plot for a horror script. Because I have a script that were doing in my english class that has to be due by the 29th of this month, for a book to get published, and I can't think of any plots or ideas for a horror script.

Can anyone think of something, because anything would help me out..

Try something else besides horror.  By sticking to that genre, you limit yourself.

And any story worth doing probably won't be given away.


Phil

I cant pick another genre, my teacher specifically assigned diffrent genres to different people so there would be a miz of different varieties of scripts.

I dont want a whole story, just some sort of idea or plot, because i can't think of any right now

I always wanted to see a movie about that whole "bloody maary" myth?  you know that one where you go into the bathroom turn off the lights and say bloody marry thrree times and she pops out the mirror and kills you.  it would be hard to make a whole movie out of it though

That seems interesting... I might think of doing that, but the people only die in the bathrooms or what??    I was kinda thinking like a slasher type of script..

Why a slasher? Why not a thriller or something with a little more thought?

I tend to write slashers more faster and better than thrillers.
I ahven't wrote a thriller before, and I don't think I'm planning on one yet.

So, u have an idea for a slasher? I could just do a typical killer and a group of kids.

Bloody Mary was the first script i ever wrote. It was like 30 pages and was not that good but it was interesting. I dont have it nemore becuz my computer crashed and i lost all my shit a while back. But a good horror plot would be this.

Dug

Summary- A group of explorers uncover an ancient tomb which dates back to over a million years ago. But what they don't know is that the tomb is the ground where lucifer was buried.

Something along those lines would be interesting.

Andrew

Andrew, that sounds interesting...
But, who is Lucifer. I heard of it before, but can't remember. Isn't he like  God's right hand man that turned on him? I remembered a lesson we had in church one day.How can he kill people, and for what reason?

The devil. Gods right hand man that turned on him (your right). God defeated him and he fell on Earth. And i think the thought of where lucifer falls would make a good setting for a horror. And he does not need to kill people. You can have strange occurences and hauntings and stuff. Scary things. People can die from causes that are inside the tomb.

Andrew

Lucifer is the devil, satan, etc.  He was God's top angel until he turned on him and was cast down into hell.  He's the devil, he can command demons and whatnot and a reason, well he's evil.

Mike.

Alright, going along with Andrew's idea, what if he possesses people ala
"The Exorcist"? Since evil isn't really a being that can be stopped, you know.

That is my point exactly (well the evil never being defeated) but i wouldnt aim towards posession in this. It has been used in one of the best horror movies. I would try something different. But thats my opinion.

Oh ok, i get Lucifer now. So, like, he falls from heaven or sumthing, and posseses someone, and the person that is possessed goes crazy and kills his partners?

Yeah, maybe it could be paranoia, so you think it's the devil and then *WHAM* it's really the people and nobody else.

Smart my friend, smart. There is a great idea... use it. haha. great ending for that idea also.

A great ending? Which is....???

How much people should there be that go to the tomb or whatever?

Haha, hell I think we're doing his assignment right now... oh well I'd like to see how this would turn out.

the ending where the people believe it is cursed by the devil but it is actually all in their heads and they are killing/going crazy on pure instienct(sp?)

I'd say about 5 people.

Andrew

No, I'm referring to AsiansBotToy's assignment. And yeah five people would work...

yeah i noticed that and deleted my comment lol

Andrew, What?? I may be a little slow,(like my teacher told me today), but I dont understand what your trying to say. Lmao. So, they kill people by pure instinct, and then realize that there is no Lucifer, or something??

Haha, its not really like an assignment, its more like a project without a grade.
Because i bought this book kit thing from my school for like 20 dollars, and i need to get it in by the 29th and if i turn it in later, they wont accept it.

I think it'd be based more on paranoia, you know, it's like going into a "haunted" house and every shadow becoming a ghost. Suspicion would asrise within the group, fear would come out of that, and then ultimately murder.
"Get him before he can get us."

okay okay here we go.

After find a lost tomb, five men discover it is more then a tomb. it is infact the place where lucifer has fallen. (as told by 'ancient scriptures and marking on the wallk and what not).

And the end the last man alive (after killings his best friend or whatever) discovers that he   did it all from his imagination. everything he has been doing and has seen was not real. they were all made up in his mind. that is a sign of him going crazy over the find.

Andrew

That could work, too.
And then for a real kicker have the "find" be a locked box, that once everyone is dead, he breaks open to discover - nothing.

And there he is trapped in this desert, no way out, and with just an empty box.

Oh okay, i think i get it now. So the killer(man) has hallucinations, about the killings, and stuff that took place, and after he killed everyone he snaps back into reality and notices it was all fake??
And the other 4 people he stalked and killed in his mind are all still alive at the end?

I think they'd be dead.

But like andrew said, it wasnt real, and was all in his head. So I'm guessing he should go crazy and actually kill them, and then snap back into reality?

He is imagining it all but he is really in a tomb and is really killing people.

So like at the end, have him wake up from sleep, or something? how can i let the readers know he was imagining it?

No he'd stop seeing the "demons" to see his slaughtered colleagues.

Oh, so he thinks hes killing demons instead of his friends, and at the end he realizes he killed his friends or sumthing?

I should start writing later.

Exactly.

Oh okay, i finally get it now...So the friends know whats really going on, and are running away from the man, and tring to persuade to him that their not demons.
So theres his POV, and then it shows what really is going on?

Or you could just keep it at his point of view of the guy so that it'll come as a surprise to the readers when they see it's all in his head, you know.

Now, what about focusing on who the characters are...

Yeah, but how will the other characters get spot light, and dialouge.

Should this happen- The other characters are shown when the man isnt around them....and then while the man walks, he spots a demon, which is really a person, and he kills it.??

Or, the whole thing will jus be in the POV of the man.

Well write the other characters as you normally would, the only thing that would be in his head would be them trying to kill him. Though he'd kill them. And hell maybe you could even have an angle or something along those lines come to him...

And yes the entire thing would have to be in his POV.

Okay, thanks for the help. Im gonna begin working on it, but i think there should be a little bit more characters, since there will be only 5 throughout the whole script.

Well how long would the script be? Since for a short five characters should work fine.

Its a short, i think, Because my teacher said the book kit has only limited pages, It mite be like around 12, but im not completely sure. I can u se a smaller font, if i have to.

Then I'd stick with five character or even less. Since twelve pages goes by quite quickly, you know.

Yeah, i mite have to try to change the format, because i don't think itll all be able to fit.

How do u feel aboutthis plot.

The man and his 4 friends travel in a tomb to find ancient stuff. They find Lucifer's tomb, and the man unleashes his lucifer's spirit, and gets possessed, and kills his teammates. But at the end, he snaps back into reality, and the spirit goes away, and he finds aempy box he killed people for, and hes left in the deesert with nothhing.

I trried to keep it simple. What u think, Zig?

Sounds pretty good, though I'd try to keep the idea of it all being in his head, you know.

It does work now about the characters who do you think they should be?

I dont know. U got any ideas and descriptions, becaus ethere are onl;y 5 characters, and there gonna be crucial.

Should there be 2 boys 2 girls and the man??

Sorry to jump in here, but I was thinking that it may be quite hard to have 5 characters involved in a script that's gonna be 12 pages or 12 minutes of script.

You may want to drop it down to a foursome...how about this:

1. The main character. A well known archeologist.
2. A local man, Egyptian/Middle-Eastern. He knows the main character from previous expeditions, and trusts him. He's the one who finds out about the tomb and contacts the main character to tell him that something's out in the desert.
3&4. A rich, snobby couple. They helped pay for the expedition, and at the last moment decided that they wanted to come along. The woman is beautiful, the husband is the very jealous type.

No one else will come to the dig site because they are scared of what's hidden under the sand.

Have lots of illusions of death and satan. Look some up on the internet. 666, pentagons etc..etc..

Hope this helps and sorry to butt in..

Hey macduff. thanks for your advice., im not completely sure if there is only 12 pages, but it mite...,
If so, i mite not even have enough room to add illusions, the characters seem pretty interesting.

Yeah, his characters would work well.

Thanks!

Good luck!

Once you're done post what it, alright.

Yeeh, i just started it, im around the 4th page, at font 9 so it will fit on my book. I just got my book kit today from school ,and i think its about 16 pages.

Some friends at my school said i should do one like Wrong turn, the movie.

One of my best friends said i shud do one on like a lumber mill massacre or something.

I think the most important part is believe in your characters. If you know them inside and out, it will help the story!

I'm gunna start working on the script later, after i finish another script in the horror genre too