Help Me Think Up Creepy Scares For My Ghost Script!!!

[Terror Australis]

Hey schmoes I need your help.

Myself and fellow schmoe The Young Son have just stared writing a ghost script called "Epiphany".

Here's the plot....

"After his unpopular friend Wendall commits suicide, Joel bottles up his grief and moves on. Six months further on Joel seems happy in all outward appearances, but there is something tormenting him that he can't explain. Joel feels that there is more to what's going on than he at first believed. Plagued by this feeling of uneasiness, he tries to talk to his loved ones, who put it down to simple depression. That's when strange things begin to occur; movements out of the corner of his eye; bleeding photographs; and other creepy shit.
Soon Joel begins to see Wendall, and he realises that his friend is trying to communicate with him. Curious, Joel speaks with a supernatural investigator, who tells him that the only reason Wendall is here is because he must fulfill his life's purpose. Joel doesn't realise that Wendall is also helping him to fulfill Joel's purpose. No matter what kind of purpose they serve, the reason behind it all is to keep the universe balanced. Without balance, there would only be Chaos."

There's is alot more to the plot but we don't want to give away too much. All we need is to know some ideas scary ghostly stuff for scenes in own script, they can either be errie, creepy or distrubing if you guys want. We just can't think of anything original so please help us.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Sounds good! Try something like a figure in a mirror that pushes the mirror down, it breaks and you can still see the eye of the ghost in the mirror shards.

Someone who suddenly starts going sleepwalker and does creepy shit.

A statue that looks at people.

I know this is not too orignal, ill try to come up with more shit later.

[psycho path]

I do have a few rejected ideas from my ghost script Mansion,most involve a house though. Like someone runs through a hallway that doesnt seem to end,and someone falls through a hole in the basement to find themselves swimming in a bunch of corpses(Similar to Poltergiest with the swimming pool and all.)

Yeah,the moving statues is a good idea. The only visual effects I enjoyed in The Haunting were the statue of the fallen man grabbing Liam neeson and trying to drown him,and the angel statues and the room growing eyes. Still one of my favorite films,but the end was a CGI fest of what otherwise was a very creepy movie. But I am rambling on. Good luck with your script dude.

[Scythemantis]

Off the top of my head:

-Brief lightning-quick flashes of a room someone is in turning into pulsating flesh?

-How about he or someone else suddenly turns around to find themself, turning around and nearly colliding with them, then the person's double - not the person - contorts their face slightly beyond normal human capacity in an expression of sheer horror and screams before everything flashes back to normal?

-Someone could break a glass or other inanimate object and it actually bleeds.

-Pillows, cushions, other soft articles of furniture could pulse as though breathing. So could any taxidermied animals, toys, fur coats or even food.

-Ever wonder if ghosts might be like a "contamination" and affect things like pollution or radiation normally would? Maybe plants around his home start to grow abnormally large and fast, maybe he experiences a little hair loss or a rash...food would spoil faster and metal might rust over instantly in a ghost's presence.

-Turning on the tv only to find an image of that room, as though the tv screen has become a mirror. Whoever's experiencing this would be reflected too, but there'd be something else going on in the image, not threatening or scary but still eerie because it doesn't exist....perhaps just people walking around or a baby playing on the floor or, I dunno.

-A long dead and wilted flower opening up and blooming anyway?

[X-Nightcrawler]

One I saw in a game I can't recall...have someone walking alone next to a window or an open field at night. Suddenly, have a lightning strike down (scaring the audience) and when it flashes the light, have a small horde of zombies appearing but only for the second the light flashes. This creeped me out big time when I played it.

I think it was Alone In The Dark 4: The New Nightmare

[Luke-Abbott]

- Statues could suddenly start bleeding tears from their eyes, but of course not actually crying just small droplets of blood dripping from the eye lids.

Thats all I can think of, not much I'm sure but hopefully it'll give you some ideas. Good luck with your script man, sounds like a pretty cool script.

[someguy]

Ideas.....

Have a statue bleeding eyes and the guy is going up to it and looking at it and when he is looking at it the eyes move and give this really angry stare straight at him.

or.....


When the guy is walking into a room and turns on a light he see the reflection of someone sitting on the couch. The guy looks at the couch and sees nothing. When he looks back the guy onj the couch is staring at him at the area where the TV is.

[deadeye]

I would suggest a scene where Joel is about to do something trivial (but would cause a chain reaction of events), but is constantly thwarted by Wendell or some other good force preventing him from accomplishing this feat. It should become obvious to Joel, which is where he "connects the dots" so to speak that there are things he is meant to do, but with a wrong step he could cause the adverse action.

[angelinwhite]

One of the main characters (Joel?) is getting ready for bed.

He is turned away from the door to his room which is open and the viewer can see into th hall behind him as Joel is busy getting his bed ready (i.e. turning back the covers, whatnot).

The camera is at bed level looking at Joel. Joel is facing the camera.

Joel moves to one side so that the camera can now see past him and into the hallway.

There is his friend Wendell standing there, arms to his side in the bedroom doorway, silently staring at Joel from behind.

Joel is still concentrating on the bed and moves back into the camera's way concealing the door and hallway again. When he finally stands back up and turns towards the bedroom door where Wendell was standing, no one is there.

But the audience saw it!!

[TheAxeGrinder]

How come no one gets scared or killed on the crapper anymore? The only kill I can think of is in Friday The 13th Part 3 where this happens. I mean, it's dark and you're on the john with no light and you're completely defenseless with your pants down. How scary is that?