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And I'm in a good mood today! :D
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THE FIRST TEST OF HDC IDOL 2008-09
- Bloodrayne : It is the year 1955. Universal Pictures have gained a firm foothold based on their monster/iconic horror movies, and Hammer is slowly but surely getting a grasp in the genre. You are an enthusiastic producer with lots of cash, and have the best director of the moment in your pocket. Which movie would you make, and what would be your budget and cast? How will you make your flick saleable with the audiences? - Bwind22 : You are in the year 1968. George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead looms in the horizon, and the 60s have already produced some memorable Hitchcock classics and several other wonderful horror flicks. You are a budding script writer, and get a call from Hitchcock for a possible script idea. What idea do you pitch to him, and what will your script be of? Quote:
- Cactus : It is the year 1931. Dracula has just been released and is doing well. Universal have a winner on their hands, and are already planning a possible sequel. Their rival production company wants you, their Manager, to think up of a dream project which would outscore Universal at their own game. What possible idea can you conjure up, and pitch it successfully to your peers? Quote:
- Dude Guadalupe : You are in 1987, a really talented new director who has been given a most difficult task - 20th Century Fox have been in touch and asked you to make a kickass sequel to Aliens, within 3 years, which would totally bowl the audiences over like James Cameron's masterpiece did the year before. Who would you contact to produce the movie? Your choice of scriptwriter and possible stars? Quote:
- Freak : You are in 1974. After NotLD, The Exorcist has become a runaway huge hit with audiences screaming out of the theaters. You are a struggling actor trying to make it big on the screen. You heard that a certain young Steven Spielberg (with a great script tucked under his arm) is looking for young actors. How do you get in touch with him, and what audition will you give him to convince that one of the lead roles belongs to you? Quote:
- Illdojo : 2007. Rob Zombie has contacted you, a musician yourself, to give him an idea for a possible sequel to his version of Halloween. He is your best friend, and he wont take no for an answer. You only have a vague knowledge of the movie, and he has explicitly said that he doesnt want to do another Halloween II, but rather see a totally original take for the sequel to his remake. Do you have a possible idea to float to him? - Jenna26 : The year is 1996. Troma, known for their low-budget gorific flicks, have suddenly decided to make a zero-budget shockfest based on cannibalism, with plenty of gore (of course!) and campy humor. As both a director and Makeup In charge, how will you go about your task of making yet another Troma "moneyspinner"? - Roshiq : The year is 1949. You are a great producer-director with lots of cash to spare, and Universal want you to make yet another winner, a follow-up to their monster hits from earlier years. You suddenly hit upon a goldmine of an idea - The Evil Dead!! What will your cast be of, and how will you go about making it? Remember its the late 40s, era of b/w movies, shock is limited to expressions and acting, minimal gore (plenty of effects which look jaded today), etc. 4 entries by the Ogres so far.
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I really like Roshiq's challenge! I'm already jealous.
I think the judges so far have been pretty much on the ball and I haven't seen a response I disagree with. Although, they're doing their research too, so I'm pretty worried for when it comes to my turn.
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That was my favorite as well. :) I also really like Dude's challenge.
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I have already made a draft & very soon I'm going to post it here but after reading the other replies & your comments, now I'm thinking to review my answer twice before making the final draft!:o Though it may sound a very lame excuse but I like to let you know that I have seen very few classic horrors so far...and particularly about the late 40's & 50's..I have seen only the Hitchcock films & 2 films of H.G Cluzot: Quai des Orfèvres & Les Diabolique... So I just went through some trailers & articles about the 40's & 50's horror to get an idea about the films of that great decades. Now, be prepare to experience THE EVIL DEAD of 1949....!!!;) [:D]
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Cactus: Good show! A commercial risk but it would be great. I would have said Colour Out of Space, but an atmospheric Dunwich Horror possible in the hands of Florey or Ulmer would be great. People back then would be champing at the bit for new horror, so might take it up. You seem to be the frontrunner here.
Freak:Meh. Citizen Kane? Tough question, solid answer. Dude: Neverending was right. No risks taken. Look at Resurrection. Not the best entry, but a novel voice. Yuzna? Stuart Gordon? Cronenberg? And Roshiq, don't worry about a dearth of vintage horror experience. You might come out with something really novel for that very reason.
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Yes..ladies & gentlemen, you have seen the monster (Frankenstein)..you have been scared about the night breeders (Dracula & Wolf Man) but the film that's going to change the face of Horror cinema forever is... Keeping the later 40's & early 50's scenario, I would like to give the film a dark,Gothic & haunting look and less graphic & violent element as possible. Story: After receiving a suspicious letter & strange gift (a dagger) by mail from a far distant relative- "Uncle Orge" (who have been disappeared for many years), Ashley Williams & his brother Scott Williams venture into the hills and mountains of Tennessee to figure out the mystery about him. He has written that he's been very sorry for all of his 'wrong' doings in life and specially for the recent & untimely death of her wife..Martha. But the most strange thing is he has also placed a very strange request to them...to send someone to destroy all his belongings out there which he mentioned as 'Cursed & Evil'. He thinks that he'll never able to do that by himself as he has 'very short time' left for his own. But the William brothers thinks that Uncle Orge may be actually a very wealthy & rich man as they heard once that he used to travel lot of strange places around the world. So to make the trip as a pleasure vacation type, Ash & Scott also take their wives (Linda & Shelly) and their sweet sister Cheryl with them to spend a weekend in the isolated cabin at the woods where their Uncle Orge lives as he written on the letter. When they get into the cabin they figure out the mysterious absence of Uncle Orge and discover that he used to practice demonic rituals and witchcraft type of things. While searching the basement of the cabin, they find the Book of the Dead and a diary belonging to Uncle Orge. As Ash begins to read the diary-- which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) by Uncle Orge, unleashes an evil force from the woods. (Before the possession begins, I won't like to change anything..specially the scene where Cheryl draws the wall clock sitting besides the window and the haunting scenario... would be exactly the same as Raimi did with in the original) The characters are then possessed one by one, beginning with Cheryl, after she is hauntingly attacked by the evil force (using the nearby branches of trees) in sequences of intense (less violent than 80's ED) and horrifying voice-overs. Cheryl makes it home to the cabin but nobody believes her. .......Like this one I would like to change few other scenes as: 1] Soon after, in the cabin Cheryl becomes a demon and grabs Linda's neck & try to kill her. But before that she already threaten everyone in Uncle Orge's voice that they have just called/awaken the evil forces that has been lurking in the woods for a long time'. They lock her in the cellar, but soon after Shelly becomes possessed and attacks Scotty who kills her with the dagger that Uncle Orge sent them...2] Linda later returns and run into Ash, but she falls on the fireplace, burnt heavily & seems she is finally dead. Ash drags her outside & bury her. She rises from the grave and then Ash hits her with the shovel and come back to the cabin. He then find that the cellar door flown open. He saw Cheryl & Linda just outside the window and tries to break in. Ash shoots them with a riffle (that Scott found on the basement), but then don't die. 3] Cheryl & Linda starts to knock on the door & call Ash with a normal voice, but now Ash get the trick, so he open the door & shoots both of them. But they still comes to attack him then he slides a bookshelf in front of the door. ....4] Ash notices that The Book of the Dead has fallen into the fireplace. He puts it directly into the flames and the demons stop and begin to vanishes in the wind as dawn breaks. The same ending+the screen goes dark & the voice of Uncle Orge says..."I told them to send someone else rather than to come here & die and let 'them' free..!":D Credits: Assistant Director: Jacques Tourneur Story Editor: Val Lewton Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen & Curt Siodmak Casts: Kirk Douglas as Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams Burt Lancaster as Scott Julie Adams as Linda Yvonne De Carlo as Cheryl Lizabeth Scott as Shelly Background narrator/voice: Boris Karloff as Uncle Orge
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roshiq, I'm speechless. I think it's brilliant. I like how you made Ash and Scott brothers, with Linda and Shelly their wives. And I like your casting choices, including the credits and the voice over.
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A very solid entry, roshiq. It will get high marks from me. I don't know about getting Douglas & Lancaster for a horror film though.
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