Shock (My Thesbian Film Prjoject)

[mary lou 102]

At my school, the International Thesbian Soceity is going to make a film. I'm the director and writer, so I just wanted to see what you all thought.

The film is a mismash of Argento, Hitchcock, and de Palma type suspense thrillers. We are not trying to be original AT ALL!


The plot is a little bit familiar as you can tell. "Suspense writer Marcus Daily had a few million fans and ONE fanatic" is the tagline.

The story is: a bored, adulterous housewife is murdered in an elevator and pages of suspense writer Marcus Daily's Shock are found in her throat. Marcus himself has just arrived in town on tour and hears the news from Captain Connors. The eyewitness is prostitute Camilla who said it was tall, black, blonde woman. As the bodies pile up, the housewife's son Cody teams up with Camilla, Marcus, Connors, and a few others to find who murdered his mother and why this killer is mudering for Marcus. What is Cody's mother's psychiatrist covering up? Who is leaving strange phone calls? What secret lies in the book that Cody's mother was working on with two of the otehr victims? Eventually, a house of secrets is revealed and terrifying childhood traumas are discovered.

It's Deep Red/Tenebre/Dressed to Kill/Psycho! It's a greatest hits collection of some of the masters' best work.

What do you think?

[rodvcpetrie]

Is this going to be a short or a feature length?

[mary lou 102]

it's feature length. It would be kinda stupid to make it a short. The script is 96 pages, so it'll be more of a 100 minutes.

As for the content, we still do not have the script approved by the principal, but we are jsut going to go ahead and begin shooting, or else we won't have enough time. Then if he doesn't find something to be appropriate, then we will cut what ever we have to.

The onlt thing that will be a problem is some of the sexual content, which doesn't have any real sex scenes, just lots of inuindo. The gore might propose a probelm too, but this is for a fundraiser, so if the trailer and posters are good, it will sell lots of tickets.

[Bear]

sounds pretty cool Mary Lou.. when will it be shot? I know mine is gonna be shot around next year if everything goes well.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
We are not trying to be original AT ALL! Why? You can have a pretty awesome homeage to all these directors while still having an original script. I think homaging is all in the directing, not necessarily in the story.

But as far as the plot goes, it sounds good enough. I like the opening murder and the aftermath sounds pretty gnarly. I just don't like the whole "The son (how old is this kid?) teams up with a group of strangers to find out who murdered his mother!" which I don't think is realistic (unless the son is actually a grown man, but it still sounds sort of tacky). Otherwise, I do like the plot.

By the way, weren't you still in post-production of "North Woods"? Won't it be hard to juggle two productions at the same time?

[mary lou 102]

We start filming in two weeks. North Woods post is still going on, but I don't have much to do with the editing as in I'm not the one doing it. My friend Jason(Jaywolf, on the boards) is actually helping out a ton.

The actual orignality is sort of off and on. Some moments are very inspired and others, most horror/suspsense fans can see coming a mile away. While it isn't totally original(what is?), it does have some plot twists the the actors read and said "Oh My God, that is crazy" So it does have some stuff going for it, specially for more mainstream people who haven't seen many of these types of films. People like us will sniff a lot of the film out before it happens, though.

As for the kid, he is 16, not like 7 or anything. He does become very resourceful and he does die, so don't worry about that. I'll try to post some pics or poster art as soon as we begin filming. The whole two week thing is something I'm hoping, we should at least be able to get one day of shooting in.

[Bear]

it sounds great man.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
We start filming in two weeks. North Woods post is still going on, but I don't have much to do with the editing as in I'm not the one doing it. My friend Jason(Jaywolf, on the boards) is actually helping out a ton. Ah yes, JayWolf had actually told me about it. Good luck with that.

Originally posted by mary lou 102
The actual orignality is sort of off and on. Some moments are very inspired and others, most horror/suspsense fans can see coming a mile away. While it isn't totally original(what is?), it does have some plot twists the the actors read and said "Oh My God, that is crazy" So it does have some stuff going for it, specially for more mainstream people who haven't seen many of these types of films. People like us will sniff a lot of the film out before it happens, though. Hm. Well, as long as people will be able to sniff the minor things ("Now I bet her car's not going to start. Oh there we go.") I guess it's all right. Just hope they can't predict the big plot turns which is what really matters.

Originally posted by mary lou 102
As for the kid, he is 16, not like 7 or anything. He does become very resourceful and he does die, so don't worry about that. I'll try to post some pics or poster art as soon as we begin filming. The whole two week thing is something I'm hoping, we should at least be able to get one day of shooting in. 16, 17 sounds 'okay' but still unrealistic, says I. Isn't this school college? Wouldn't it be easier to get 20/22 year old actors? Because that age seems more realistic for a character who's going to embark on such "quest".

[mary lou 102]

Well it's high school actually. We are all in high school. And Cody ispsying on the psychiatrist's office, taking pictures of each patient that walks out and he sees the blonde woman who Camilla described, he follows her to Camilla, who is attacked and eventually saved by Cody, who then begins to put the pieces together and go to the others, even Connors to confirm their results. Really, everyone has a different agenda in the film. Everyone has their own ideas about things and msot of them work alone and then come back to report thier findings.

And bTW, Jaywolf told me you read an early screenplay of North Woods, but I can't rememebr ever letting you read one. Have I gone crazy?

[X-Nightcrawler]

Oh, it's High School. All right, I thought you were in college.

Originally posted by mary lou 102
And bTW, Jaywolf told me you read an early screenplay of North Woods, but I can't rememebr ever letting you read one. Have I gone crazy? Probably. I asked you to send me a copy when I was working on the cover art for the movie. Or even before that, I don't remember. I read it, I just never told you what I thought.

[mary lou 102]

weird, cause I remember your poster, but I don't think I sent anyone a script.

[Bear]

Wish i could help, at the monmt Im the king of unoriginality.Ok, maybe not but still. Oh well, I have The Killer Next Door to worry about at the moment.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
weird, cause I remember your poster, but I don't think I sent anyone a script. Weird . . . I just know I read your screenplay. I wonder if someone else sent me a copy, you think that could be possible? I'll check my e-mail history to see who sent it and get back to you.

Wish i could help, at the monmt Im the king of unoriginality.Ok, maybe not but still. Oh well, I have The Killer Next Door to worry about at the moment. Which, by the way, you haven't properly explained in that thread. I'd love to help but I'd need you to re-write your synopsis.

[Bear]

not sure how I would do it but I'll try in a minute...

[darchangel]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
The eyewitness is prostitute Camilla who said it was tall, black, blonde woman.



So the killer is Iman?



and it's THESPIAN, not thesbian.



~darchangel~

[mary lou 102]

Yeah, sorry. I'm obviously not the best speller.

The killer is man pretending to be this alter ego named Serena. But right when you think the case is solved, the kills start up again, so that's not the big plot twist.

[darchangel]

Originally posted by mary lou 102


The killer is man pretending to be this alter ego named Serena. But right when you think the case is solved, the kills start up again, so that's not the big plot twist.


No dear...not a man....IMAN, the supermodel.


You said a tall, black blonde woman....


http://cdn.channel.aol.com/channels/0c/07/434ac8d9-0002a-03a7b-400cb8e1


:D



~darchangel~