What are your favorite subjects to write about?

[Film4Life]

Hello, I'm new to the forums. I am currently working on my third feature length screen play. I have had many of my short scripts produced by film students and random people who wanted to make a short film.

I love horror and thrillers. So heres my question to you. What subjects do you like to write the most about?

Ghosts/Spirits
Regular People
Vampires
Monsters
Zombies(Who have been having a good comeback lately)
Cultural Myths
and so on....

I wrote my first feature length screen play about Zombies, and I think I'm going to revise and rewrite it. I enjoy the things you can do with "people" who do whatever you want them to do, without lossing believability from your audience(well, yes I know, zombies).

So, let us hear from you, what do you enjoy writing about?

[syxxpac]

If one were to read three out of the four scripts I've currently got finished, they'd think I have an unhealthy fetish for stories about bioweapons ie. sinister organizations breeding nasty beasties for war. Two of them are adaptations of the Resident Evil games, and I'm working on the third and final leg of the "Raccoon City Trilogy", so I guess I get off the hook on those because I didn't actually create the mythology, but then my other script, Phoenix Rising, my first finished script (hence being rather special to me), carries similar themes, and it's all from here *taps noggin*, inspired by movies and games such as Aliens, Metroid, Predator, Jurassic Park, and, of course, RE *commence the rolling of eyes of everyone familiar with my history on these boards* :p

I also quite like mystery/whodunnits. Movies that are kinda like giant puzzles, like Scream, or Saw, to name a couple. My latest alongside RE3 is just such a slasher/mystery, Once Upon A Time In Canada, a tale of shattered pasts, heartbreak, murder and vengeance. Mmmmmm, you smell that? Smells like money :D

[Cronos]

for me, i enjoy writing about demons, aliens, vampires and monsters the most, while i do go into other things like thrillers at times i find it more fun to do these

[Kanadian_kev]

I never really noticed until I looked back at all my scripts, but it seems I like to write about the human mind a hell of a lot. Whether it's the mind being controlled by something else, or a trip inside a person's mind, the gray matter always has something to do with it.

[Servo]

I used to write a lot about demons and vampires but lately I've had a hankering (that's the first time I've used that word and I don't even know if I spelled it right) for coming up with my own monsters based on ancient myths and religions. I am definitley having way more fun with that then the conventional monsters. Over the summer I went on a mission trip to China, and I was just recently selected to lead one to India next summer. So given all of that, I've also been inspired to write a lot about adventure in traveling. Also, I've become pretty fond of noir-type characters (detective, femme fatale).

Who knows where all of this will lead to...hopefully I can put all of this into my upcoming effort.

[X-Nightcrawler]

For me, it's that which can't be . . . explained. For instance, life after death.

Not taking into account the fanscript I did, Final Destination 3, of course, or the other gung-ho-fanboy spawns I wrote before I began taking myself more seriously.

Some of them (which 'pac has read) are about this particular topic. With Omega it was all about a journey from life to death (I know, tried and tired, but it was merely me training myself). Deja Vu 'explored' different stuff. A way of time travel, alternate realities, a bizzare explanation for deja vus or those moments when you just seem to feel these emotions out of nowhere. Windgates is all quiet and psychological horror, á la Silent Hill, focusing of life, death and rebirth and a very twisted look at family unity.

Numen (my favorite concept of mine) is a more action oriented werewolf story with a totally new spin to the popular mytho. This one focuses on love, or more specifically, on the question: "How far would you go to save your loved one?".

[Dead Halloween]

Mostly I like to write about Sci-Fi and Horror. Sometimes Fantasy too. But I never finish what I write :p

In horror I like to write about the undead (Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts).

[blk_flower]

when I plan to go into directing, away from anime, my first horror film should take place in the woods, it's the worst place you can be, thousands of miles wide and long, when you've walked a mile you still feel like your in the same spot once again.

Other than that I write about
any kind of story besides a comedy cause I'm terrible at being funny.

Dramas, usually the break of the human heart and spirit. And usually my films would have constant action something happening.

[zombievictim]

Well I've really enjoyed writing any kind of horror script. I've done about ten and most of them are all different. The most fun I have is writing a slasher. With a slasher there's so many possibilities that I can explore. When I write a Vampire, or Zombie script is much more constricting. I say this mainly because with zombies, they can't think or outsmart the humans left. With Vampires its constricting because they can only come out at night. In a slasher I can make the killer smart and I have the possibility of having the events occur at anytime of the day.

So all in all, I like to write any kind of script as long as its horror, but Slasher's are my favs.

[miss.kruger]

freddy!freddy kruger! i wrote 2 interviews.its like me interviewing him,and different stuff,its really kool!

[Pestilence]

Most of my focus goes towards writing horror, whether it be ghosts, zombies, vampires, demon or other-dimensional creatures.

I'll shortly be moving towards the more human side of things though to build on character work. I like to explore what makes people do what they do, and what can push everyday people to the lengths of barbarity.

Nothing cutesy or lovey-dovey ever comes into my writing, and nobody gets out unscathed.