An Idea Or Nothing At All

[SLAW]

I've always thought that a horror movie is probably best when psychological. So I've been thinking about this idea for a while. It's about a good looking guy who works at a grocery store. He's relatively new. He over hears his manager talking to a supervisor about him being slow; that he can't perform simple tasks and is an all around "slob." His mind starts to rage. He's of course angry, but mostly you can see he's hurt. "Why does nobody want me? Why do I try, just feel humiliation and sadness? I can only show them on their outside, what they do to me on the inside." He follows his manager home and in the night removes his car battery. Drives by in the morning and sees him wondering what happend. Plays it as if he just happened to be in the neighborhood and offers him a ride. To speed this up he manages to drive to a slaughter house and strangles/drownes his manager in pig slop. He eventually just wants to kill anyone who comes off the tad bit disrespectful to him, whether they really were or not. Anyway, just an idea, I don't have anything written except that.

P.S. Oh yeah, he's good looking because this eventually gets sexual somewhere. He freaks girls out, but won't rest until he literally has their hearts. Maybe that would conflict with the other idea?

[JoeScream]

Uhhhh right.. Maybe you should try this in the screenwriting/filmmaking forum. As for the idea it sounds strong enough - but hasn't the cliche of the emotionally abused person finally snaps and get revenge been played out enough?

[Requiem-for-a-Dream]

It's a good idea but it's been done before. Try stearing yourself in a different direction than killing the boss, it's too predictable. Try developing his character into a genious and let him destroy every inch of the man's life. Also, don't have the manager so excusable, make him fucking mean, just calling someone slow doesn't really jump start the audience into a frenzy of rage. Make the manager make the guy's life a living hell at the job so that the audience can really sympathize with him. It's been done before but not to the extent the other has. Remember this, if your mind automatically wanders to a specific idea, don't use it. If your mind comes up with an idea really quickly, it's more than likely been done before. Unpredictability is the key.

Hope some of that helped.

Matt

[SLAW]

Well the way I described it did sound a little cliched, but yeah. It's not so much that he is abused, it's that he thinks he's abused. He ignores his family that actually loves him. He has socially innapropriate impulses around girls. When he walks into work a new poster for a missing girl is put up. He has fantasies about killing women that he sees while he's working. I didn't just think of it now, but I haven't thought about it a whole lot. There's a lot of things I could throw in the mix. If I ever write anything on it I will send it to you if you want.

[Requiem-for-a-Dream]

Cool, I'm sure it'll be great, just put lots of time into it. When you've completed it, post that you've finished it in the screenwriting forum.

Matt