So we’re amid the Halloween craze. Daughters want their daddies to buy them the sleazy costumes all of their friends are wearing. Old people are loading up on snickers and candy corn for Halloween night. College parties include keg stands and pumpkin juice and lots of topless gals. Oh yes, this must be my favorite month of the year.
However, it’s not wonder that many spec scripts try to make the cut during scare season. Some are horror knock offs while others are something promising. Even though this month stunk donkey sh*t in terms of Box Office numbers (I’m not counting PARANORMAL ACTIVITY) there’s still so much more to this month and those funky spec scripts are always great to play around with.
Bloody-Disgusting received a few words regarding a possible upcoming horror project in the works. Gris Grimly (famous horror artist pictured above) has written down a cool little script with Jeff Hammer called COPPER CREEK. As long as that title doesn’t have cold or manor in it then I’m all up for it. The synopsis goes something like this: The film takes place in a Rocky Mountain town that it being terrorized by a werewolf. Communication is cut off from the outside world leaving an alcoholic ex-sheriff to lead survivors on a fight for their lives- all while a local doc. attempts to find a cure for the plague.
Here’s another nifty little spec script: Ryan Spindell (KIRKSDALE) and Joshua Mikel are out on the town with DORMANT, a horror film in the vein of Shaun of the Dead that takes place in a nursing home.
And another: Jeff Dixon’s screenplay for Bridal Bash went out on the town. It’s being described as a horror version of Sex & the City.
BRIDAL BASH? Alright, how many of you agreed to see SEX & THE CITY 2 with your lady friends in exchange to take her to see THE EXPENDABLES? Honestly. Next time you make an agreement like that take her to see Jeff Dixon’s take. All will be well again. Any of these ideas sound like a good idea? I’m down for all three but I’d like to see these ideas flesh out a bit more until I make a proper decision on what’s dope. Until then we’ve got zombie toga parties to keep us busy and sorority vampire parties. Cheers to Halloween.
Anyone care to make her into a zombie?