Throwing some ideas out there...

[DWhots]

Been a while since I have been around. Still trying to write, to many ideas, or not enough. Thought I might try and throw a few out your way and see what people think.

ZOMBIE IDEA #1

Title: LD7 (Living Dead 7)

As war breaks out on the otherside of the world and more and more soldiers come home in body bags, the military/governemnt puts project LD7 into effect. LIVING DEAD 7, is a project that reanimates the dead for seven days, after seven days a small explosive device goes off in their brains, killing them. The bodies are then retrieved, bagged and sent home with a heroes welcome.
But first the project needs testing.
In a small middle eastern village, helicopters fly overhead dropping crates. Villagers are devoured. Scientific teams study from a far. Test one a success. Now send in the troups. As soldiers move in on the town they witness the horrors. Men some thought dead slaughtering innoccent lives, they find themselves in a battle with the enemy outside and their own deceased men within the village. Will they last seven days.

It's just a bare bones idea. Been throwing it around for sometime. But with wars going on and brave men and women dying I thought it might be in bad taste so I kept the idea on ice. Could work if done right.

ZOMBIE IDEA #2

Title: not sure.

What price would you pay for love? To Seth and Natalie life was simply a dream. They were in love and ready to buy their first home. One night they are struck by a drunk driver. Natalie dies on impact. Months pass and Seth life begins to fall into a downward spiral. An answer to his prayers Natalie climbs out of her grave and comes home. She looks the same, but one small catch, she needs flesh to survive, without it she begins to rot away. Seth begins to cut himself feeding her pieces of himself. But that is not enough she needs more. Seth goes out and begins to kill the homeless, taking them back for Natalie to eat.
A missing body is bound to get noticed and Officer Hassle is on the case. After a few meetings with Seth he comes to the conclusion that Seth has stolen the body. What he learns is far worse.
The more people Seth kills the more of a monster he becomes. Natalie begs him to stop, but he can't loose her again. It all ends with Hassle finding Seth in the act of bringing another body home, the fight and during the struggle they are both killed leaving Natalie alone in the house with three bodies and a burning hunger.

I kinda liked this one. Not the average zombie flick.

Feedback would be great. Tell me what you think. If they suck, say they suck I can take it. All I ask is tell me why, perhaps with ideas bounced back and forth they can be great, or better than average.

Cheers

[Jix]

The second script would be easier to write but would probably be more nonsensical. How could she come back? Why would she need flesh to stay alive? Why not just feed her raw animal meat? Why not steal corpses from the morgue? Does she need live flesh? If so, wouldn't he need to kidnap the homeless alive? If she loves him so much, wouldn't she will herself to die, just as she willed herself to live, in order to spare her loved one from becoming a murdered? If she wouldn't do that, wouldn't the guy realize she's just a heartless, selfish cunt? Why would we care to watch a movie about a weak, dumb character who can't see the obvious about her mate? Etc. Not saying you shouldn't write the second one, just that you'll have to deal with those issues.

The first one would be a more straightforward action flick: science experiment gone wrong, guys going through a gauntlet of zombies to survive. Just one thing... If the zombies last 7 days, why send the soldiers into action before the 7 days are up? Lack of communication in the ranks or did the scientists want the zombies to attack their own men?

[X-Nightcrawler]

Well, before I say anything, remember that my favorite movie is The Lion King. How is that relevant? I'm still not completely sure.

But as far as the ideas go, they could go either way. The first I don't particularily like mainly because I don't see how it can make any sense. Why the hell would the government create such a serum/program that would revive the dead. To have soldiers last a little longer after death? Either way, whichever explanation you give no matter how original it is, it won't go against the fact that this is essentially another mindless zombie story without a very interesting premise (experiments gone wrong? Psh!). I'm being particularily hard on this story because . . .

. . . you have a much better story in the second title. Forgetting any similarities it might have with "Return of the Living Dead 3" big or small, it really is not an average zombie movie. And I don't even remember a zombie movie to deal with love in such a way. I very much liked the whole idea of how far would you go to keep your love.

The problem is mainly that well, it needs some tweaks to be completely believable. For instance, changing some of the rules of her needs to stay alive. But as long as you maintain some sort of motif where you'd have the main character suffering a lot only to be with his girl, I think it would be interesting.

[DWhots]

Thanks guys for the replies.
Nightcrawler, Lion King was a great movie no matter what anyone says. My favorite is It's a Wonderful Life, of course followed by Suspiria and El Topo.

The first idea, was just a thought really. You always watch movies that talk about the undead as soldiers, Return of the Living Dead 3, Revolt of the Zombies, others I cannot think of at this moment. I thought it would be cool to actually see that instead of hearing about it.

The second, and my perfered idea was an idea I had after seeing Deathdream, great Bob Clark movie. It revolves around a mother and son, the son being back from the dead. To me, like in that movie, you never know why they come back from the dead and IMO, who cares. She simply returns, perhaps she answers his prayers, hears his cries, hell a crow raises her from the dead, to me it doesn't matter. People today want all the answers in their films and its a shame really.
I also like the idea of the girlfriend return not as a monster but herself, or perhaps the way the Seth character sees her. There's a lot to work out. So far it's just an idea.

cheers

[Jix]

The first one is more like Universal Soldier.

[Runawayrunaway!]

The first one could be cool if it wasn't called Living Dead 7. That's a shitty name. It should be called something awesome, like Project Steve, or Disco Sanchez 4, or Naked Lunch. (which should be the name of everything) If you basically took the premise of, like, almost every video game movie being made right now, which is where a bunch of characters going to a place to find themselves fighting crazy monsters for some reason, and you applied it to the war on Folks Who Hate Jesus, it could end up being pretty interesting.

[tylerzx2002]

I made a short film a year ago in my high school film class that was similar to the second one, except it was the male, and he wasn't dead, just messed up in the head, and his temptation wasn't just for live flesh, but for dead flesh as well. I liked your idea though.

[Tarman]

I like the first idea better but like someone stated, it would be harder to pull off and a decent budget would be needed.

Both kinda tread down the path of ROTLD 3 but I do like both but prefer the first one.

Having the soliders fight against their own plus the other soliders is a good idea. One thing that really upsets me in war movies is when the american soliders are caputred and tortured so I would add something like that. Picture something from Deer Hunter as far as the torturing scene