The idea is to write a treatment to submit to The Asylum. It's not for money. Only practice. I say we write it under a pseudonym. We can decide on one later, though.

My idea is a dark horror comedy called "Mortuary Mort".

It tells the tale of a quiet and reserved Mortician named Mort. He lives in seclusion with his wife Lenore.

In the treatment:

1. He digs under his cellar and finds a door leading to a vast cavern. Within the cavern he finds occult carvings and writings. In the deep recesses he finds a vial. This vial breaks and the liquid that's inside absorbs into him.

2. A mysterious woman leaves notes of the soon-to-be deceased.

3. The liquid seems to have changed Mort. Leaving him with the ability to raise the dead. But at the cost of himself decaying.

4. Lenore is eventually picked by the mysterious woman. Mort stands guard all night only to find that Lenore passes away in her sleep. He soon finds she has been revised by his touch. Revised as a zombie. Flesh craving and souless. But Mort cannot seem to come to terms with this.

I was thinking this could be a nice spin on a b-film any and all ideas are welcomed.

mmmmmm Zombies....

I like it I didn't know we could send stuff to The Asylum.

Sean

Yuppers I was thinking we could pitch ideas back and forth and then send them a couple page treatment. Hopefully they'll like it.

As for the pseudonym that's simply because it's easier to use one name then a dozen.

I got this idea rather quickly and felt it'd be a fun and short exercise.

It's a low budget production company. They accept treatment and script submissions.

I thought it'd be a spiffy idea to send them a treatment that was the result of a collaberative effort.

This is interesitng...I insepcted Asylum and found no way to submit scripts. Where is the link?

http://www.theasylum.cc/production.html

Scroll down and it says submit script/treatment.

Alright. Lets say we assume the script is going to be 80 minutes.

I think we need to start with something that draws people in. Though not explain about the door under the cellar. I want to stay away from a prologue that gives it away.

The original treatment I had said that it was because he heard screams coming from his cellar. I think that could arise an eerie factor.

I kind of want a mix of dark humour and horror. I kind of find the humour like between the clients he has. Like the kind of humour that throws you off and then BAM another scare hits you. Offbeat is kind of how I see this turning out.

I saw him as just quiet and becomes weirder as he begins to change. As for age no younger then 30 and no older then 50.

Character list (people can add to this as they please)

Mort
Lenore
Ashly Morte (the women who leaves the notes)
Detective Romero

Oh and the zombies don't come in until later. I kind thought it'd be an interesting twist that if everything he touched came back to life. And well Mort happens to be a Mortician...

Perhaps. That might work with a quick-witted voice over. Like we could start with a brutal accident or something like that.

Perhaps. Something that happens swiftly and unexpected but not so out of the blue that it becomes self mockery.

Like we could have it open with this kid on bike - casually chucking papers at doors and then have Mort narrating an opening.

He crosses the street and is plowed by a truck. At which case we could cut to Mort at his home, you know.

I like it, though. I just think we should have him on bike, you know.

I was thinking the narration could talk about life and the small town and end with a line like "My name is Mort and I'm a Mortician".

And that's the extent of V.O's that I want to have. But I think it'd work you know. I also see this with kind of a comic book approach as well. Like in the opening sequence or something like that.

Oh and the character of Ashly Morte is in fact a Grim Reaper of sorts.

Mort is given the power to revise the dead but at the cost of them coming back as blood thirsty zombies and him further decaying.

Though we need more characters, you know.

I guess style. Kind of like an old E.C comic, you know.

The opening sequence could be comic book still frames or something like that.

It's very early in the morning.  The kid is riding his bike along the street, chucking papers onto porches.  One misses and lands in a bush just to the side of the porch he was aiming at.

Frustrated, he gets off his bike, heads over to the bush retrieving the paper, and sets it on the porch.  As he walks back toward his bike, the homeowner blasts a hole the size of a basketball through his chest with a shotgun, mistaking him for a burglar.

Later on, after the zombies have risen, the kid shows up at the guy's house and eats his intestines for killing him.

Accidental shotgun killings and intestine eating rule.

Yeah, that'd work, too. I like both ideas, though.

And I was thinking that only the last 20 minutes would end in a full onslaught zombie infestation, you know. I mean there'd be the dead walking here and there. But mainly it'll be more of a mystery.

And the focus of Mort trying to stay good well it seems this evil force is taking over his body.

And perhaps we could end it with the possibility of a sequel.