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I've been wanting to create a horror film for some time now and I finnally came up with an idea so here it goes.
A hiker gets lost in the woods in the middle of the night. He has a feeling that he's being stalked. He get's scared and makes a break for it. All of a sudden he gets slaughtered by a mysterios figure.
How is that?
- MH
Okay, there needs to be a lot of suspense/build-up.
How's this:
A hiker gets lost in the woods, it's around 5pm and it's starting to turn dark, since there's a long way to travel the next morning, he sets up camp. He is alone, and he hears footsteps around him, he suspects it's only animals. But as the night gets darker he see's a mysterious figure in the distance. He hears screaming, he thinks it's only animal shrieks,
but he starts to feel weird, like someone is watching him. When he goes to sleep in his tent he hears someone coming near the tent, he leaves the tent, it's near midnight, he looks around and see's no one. Finally he calls out to the man he thinks is stalking him. There is no answer, he proceeds to check out the area around the camp and he notices a cave, he enters the cave to find massacred animals and human remains, he is terrified. He starts to back away when he see's a polaroid picture of him from earlier that evening on the cave floor. He starts to run when a mysterious figure grabs him, the hiker struggles and breaks free but trips and hits his head on a rock. He awakens to find himself tied to a stone, he awakens to find himself surrounded by people, with human flesh masks over their face, he assumes it's cannibals, he tries to escape but the cannibals initiate a ritual where he is their sacrifice, what ensues is a fight to survive.
BTW here's my idea I got no feedback on:
Christmas Time!
A family is brutally massacred on Christmas Night, the case remained unsolved. Many years later, the new inhabitants of the home find themselves being stalked by a madman, possibly the same person responsible for the Christmas killings years before.
I've never been much of the kind of horror lover.
As I like to say,
"Horror is horrible."
xD
But I guess it seems pretty good for one, maybe...
Though I don't like horror, I still think it's better to make it more psychological, rather than making a more slasher type horror and relying on blood and violence for the scares.
I usually much more prefer thriller type things, such as NXT's Possessed, which was brilliantly done.
Story simple, yes, but execution and the idea behind it was brilliant and visionary.
Also, mates, I have an idea for a story.
It's basically a short bit of a much larger story from a six part book series I've been planning, perfecting, and sort of writing for nearly a decade. As I can't create the entire thing in LEGO, it would be nice to do a little adventure in between books or something that I'll never actually describe in the final books, but it would be a fun way to get to know some of my characters and such.
I call it:
The Adventures of Mad People
It takes place in a far off galaxy cluster known as Evernight, a realm where the line between imagination and physics is blurred, allowing for magic and a wide range of impossible things. The story mainly revolves around a group of good people spread across Evernight called the Nynoosian Alliance, who's rebels, the evil Faceless people commanded by the sinister faceless elf wizard Korzak Zekel, are trying to wipe them out.
Spear heading the fight against the Faceless, Nynoos has a small team of elite (and somewhat odd) adventurers known as "Mad People" lead by the skeletal knight Sir Squid.
The movie would probably revolve mostly around the astronaut Mr. Adventure. A Mad Person who's extremely frightened, buy never backs down from a mission. He, along with some other Mad People, will attack a heavily defended Faceless Factory. With some cool fight scenes involving a combination of science fiction and fairy tale fantasy, with wizards, spaceships, magic crystals, aliens, and lots of cool stuff.
What do you think? 
(BTW Faceless people are called so due to the fact that they have their faces quite safely removed in a special technique making them appear skeletal.)
Fyi slasher's don't depend on gore, in case you haven't been aware Black Christmas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and other 70s slashers had little to no gore and had subtle murder sequences so the deaths would be more effective on the audience. I hate when people personify my style of horror as gore gore gore when it's mostly all implied. And the stalking aspect does make my idea a horror thriller.
Yeah I never been into horror my self but it's fun to make stories.
Kinz I thank you for the feed back but I won't be able to do that because I don't own lot of lego.
This is my build up.
A hiker decides to take a hike in the woods but soon gets lost. He decides to set up camp in the middle of the woods. He soon hears blood curling screams. He assumes their animals. Then he heres footsteps. He start to get a little nervous. The footsteps get louder, and louder, and louder. He decides to make a break for it. Still hearing footsteps
he runs faster. Then he trips over a rock and falls face first. The footsteps stop so he assumes he's safe. Then when he least suspects it he is ambushed by a mysterios figure. He tries to fight back but gets killed. Then you see his body in the distance and then it pans left a bit to the figures hand with he knife with blood.
Now how's that kinz
- MH
Okay, first of all, if you need any directional help with this film, i'm willing to write a screenplay for you or give you ideas when filming since I love horror. You can see a lot of horror work on my YouTube channel. Now regarding your version of the plot, I feel it's pretty good, now like I said before, I can write a screenplay for you if you want, and if you don't like it, it's perfectly fine and you can write your own script.
TILL DEATH
When William Lowther was a teen he had a crush on a lady named Vanessa Knightly, the pirate Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bert) destroyed his family, taking all their money and killing his parents, hence becoming an orphan, William Lowther then decides to Steal from Black Bert. After a daring raid on the ‘Revenge’ William steals back the family jewel. Black Bert finds out way he did that was to propose to Vanessa, Black Bert then takes her captive. William goes after Black Bert, coming to his Island home in the “Sea of Atlas” just off the coast of Africa, the Island often has storms, the population is more ‘creature’ then human.
the story Ideas for my Batman series can be found here:
http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/to … nimations/
I've never been much of the kind of horror lover.
As I like to say,
"Horror is horrible."
xD
But I guess it seems pretty good for one, maybe...
Though I don't like horror, I still think it's better to make it more psychological, rather than making a more slasher type horror and relying on blood and violence for the scares.
I usually much more prefer thriller type things, such as NXT's Possessed, which was brilliantly done.
Story simple, yes, but execution and the idea behind it was brilliant and visionary.
I don't understand how anyone can hate an entire genre? I get it if you dislike a large proportion of horror films, but hating a genre because of that is just silly, especially because they differentiate hugely. And it's not only "gore" at all. Many horrors are horrific, not horrible. Which is often the point.
Last edited by Pillow (July 24, 2011 (11:37pm))
I have a question related to screenwriting.
So, earlier this year, for my English class, I wrote this story about a Russian Scientist working for SETI and he discovers aliens. However, I go to a nerd school, so they really didn't give me enough time to think of a good ending, so I just rushed and made the aliens blow up everybody at the end. PM me if you really want to read it.
But I want to adapt it into film, so I was wondering if anybody else had any ideas of what the aliens should do besides the generic stupid ending. Like something more creative, along the lines of 2001, but not as wondrous. Because it's sort of supposed to be a depressing story, like War of the Worlds. Also, I think the aliens need to win this time.
Okay, I thought of a much better ending to this story I wrote.
It takes place in the height of the cold war, but let's say tat some nukes have already been detonated and the Soviets and Americans are at risk of destroying the world.
Then the Russian scientist hears something on his SETI radio. Apparently it's aliens. YOu see their ship come, fire a laser at the Earth. Then there's like a big flash of light, and all the humans are magically gone. Not dead, because their remains aren't anywhere, but just gone, like they never existed. Then nature is left to start a new world, consuming the ruins of human cities. It's sort of a sad ending, cuz all the humans sort of died, but it's also a hoppeful ending. Like, in 2001, the whole human race was an experiment, in this, that experiment failed. So these aliens come to sort of abort that experiment and hope that they can start over and a new species will flourish instead of killling each other. 
I'm thinking of doing a film based off the true Amityville 1975 murders and the rumored paranormal activity of the family that moved into the house later on.
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A man from Manhattan gets a phone call from a close friend to meet him at the top floor of the Empire state building since he is visiting. but on the way up the elevator, the computer malfunctions and the elevator continues the function of retracting the cord, pulling the elevator continuously and not stopping, until the cord stresses to failure and the car drops. The elevator picks up speed and the emergency brakes fail due to the speed of the car. The man attempts to open the maintenance door under the carpet of the elevator, but the impact of the air from the outside knocks him through the ventilation grill at the top and he free falls with the elevator car beneath him. but at the moment before he hits the top of the now mutilated car, and he is still in mid air, he is vaporized and enters another realm.
In 2002, Professor James Harlem, a professor in psychology at the University of Chicago, learned that The Human mind uses a thinking process similar to a computer's memory, search and returning results. using this as a seed, he managed to store a human memory as a file his computer couldn't open. He then consulted another professor and they found a place the file could be used, in a realm. Human existence is possible on the first realm, but the other realms remain locked until this one isn't usable, it is then destroyed and the human race starts again on the second one, with more knowledge to create a more safe realm. By using memories and ideas from their minds, the professors recreated their own civilization all to themselves, building structures that people in the first realm would not think to make. But James soon realized based on the other professors actions that this would go public, so he destroyed the computer and entered the realm, after faking a death. He then occupied the realm with his mind and began to relive his own life, free from his old pressures and boundaries. but after one too many centuries of no human contact and sheer boredom, he learned that age does not affect the world that shouldn't be used, and his mind degraded.
The man from Manhattan then appears into this realm, to find a pristine little settlement with a seemingly friendly man who welcomed him and explained that this world was his. but the man began to see this man was missing something, and that he wasn't as happy as it seemed. And very soon, the Man began to fear for basic survival as he learned the terrible truth. Harry could create anything as the realm was now occupying his mind, and if Harry killed him, he wouldn't just wake up. This was a world running on a whole imagination, an imagination that had gone completely insane.
Yeah, I know. The whole theory is goofy, and there are more plot holes than words in the description, but it's still being brainstormed. It's what I get from Inception and Minecraft.
The main character, M.C, receives a small package in the mail. Finds it to be a new pair of black sunglasses. The brand name on the tag says "Scope: The Future of Glasses". It has the receipt with it and it was bought by someone under the name "anonymous".
He walks over to his bedroom window, puts on the glasses, and looks out at the street. He sees a girl, about his age, riding her bike when all of a sudden she gets hit by a yellow truck, leaving her lifeless. He heard nothing, not even when the tires skidded to a stop. As he runs to help the girl he trips in the hallway and knocks his glasses off. He dashes outside, looks to the street, and no one is there. The girl, her bike, and the yellow truck are nowhere to be seen. He looks to his right and he sees the girl, in perfect health, riding her bike toward the spot as if nothing just happened, and then (MC) sees and hears the yellow truck to his left.
It is happening again, as if time reversed 10 seconds. (MC) runs and pulls the girl away from the truck before they hit. Girl thanks (MC) and after everyone has left, he walks inside, sees his glasses on the floor, picks them up and looks back outside, He sees her dead and lifeless on the ground, the yellow truck, the driver hysterically talking on the phone to someone and (MC) sees HIMSELF? on the street taking her pulse. He finds out that the glasses can see 15 seconds into the future, but the future where she died from the crash.
He recieves an email from [email protected] telling him that the glasses will predict the future, but will not forever, because he caused a "ripple effect" by saving her. Everyone and everything she now comes into contact with will be altered very slightly. The glasses are perfect at first predicting things, but now that he made a change the predictions will start becoming slightly off or even not happen altogether. The email then says " BAR BAR BAR - Viva Las Vegas!" He imagines seeing the slots that will hit in 15 seconds, getting the person at the machine to leave for a bit while M.C. pulls the slot and takes the winnings.
At Vegas, he successfully gets a girl to leave and he takes the money, but a guy sees what he did, punches him in the face, breaking his glasses in half. That night MC takes the lenses out of the frame, stacks one on top the other, closes one eye, and looks into the glass like a small telescope. He sees a blue van drive by, but now it took 30 seconds before it happened.
He puts the glass back up to his eye, squints into it but now he separates the two glasses as he continues to look, and he sees time begin to fast forward, and when he stops pulling the lenses apart the "world" in the glasses returns to normal speed. In the two seconds M.C. pulled the lenses apart, he saw around 25 cars drive by. He realizes that the farther the lenses are apart, the farther he can see into the future. When the lenses are spread a little farther than 6 inches apart, he can see approximately 24 hours into the future. the further than that and the vision blurs tremendously.
Early the next morning M.C. goes out to get his newspaper and an idea dawns on him. He pulls out the lenses, looks a day into the future, and watches the mailman drop tommorrow's newspaper and the headline reads "Local woman and child abducted from their car after breaking down on SR60. Car was found at 9:00 A.M. just south of Brooklyn St. Officials believe she was on her way to drop her son off at school when.."
It's 6:30, and M.C.hops in his car to try and stop it. He recieves a text from 314-1519- 2653 saying "DON'T play God. Go BACK to Vegas and get more money. You owe me." M.C chooses to save the Mom and boy, but when he comes home he finds that his own son has been taken, and a letter has been left
- "If you want your son back, you must break into the Bank of America Corporate office tommorrow night. Someone by the name of Tyce Herman was going to break into their heaquarters and hack into their mainframe, downloading account information, social security #'s, etc.. But because you stopped the abduction, Tyce is going to get into a car accident today, leaving him incapacitated. And I want that information. So now you're going to get it for me. Tonight you will go to the bank's headquarters, and use the lenses to see how and when Tyce was going to sneak in, upload the information, and escape. You then will have one day to get the tools and resources needed, and then do everything exactly like Tyce was going to"-
That night, he watches the heist take place and while doing so he realizes that when he flips the lenses to be convex instead of concave, he can look a day into the past as well. He takes all the notes he can and then heads home. He comes up with the idea to use the glasses to see who kidnapped his son and where they took him all the while getting ready to break into the Bank of America building. I have alot more in my head!!! email me at [email protected]
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Seriously. 
. Just by looking at a huge chunk of text without any paragraphs, makes me discouraged to read it. Please break this off, and are you kidding me with this:
or text mod edit - phone number removed
For your own personal security you shouldn't give out your phone number. Plus by giving that out, that gives some people ideas to spam you, not saying people from this site, but be careful. Not to mention just by giving your phone number out people can find out numerous info about you, that you don't want them to know.
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LSP's totally right there. It's too dangerous to give out your phone number to the Internet. Also, don't post that whole chunk of text on to three different forums. 
I'm gonna make a really-long movie about alien conquest.And yes,i build an area 51 building.All else is classified.
I'm gonna make a really-long movie about alien conquest.And yes,i build an area 51 building.All else is classified.
Good luck, I just rebooted Truth.
I got an idea for a movie, I won't make it, but someone really should. But a movie elaborately explaining mod elements for THAC and BRAWL so people wouldn't be confused. xD
That could be extremely helpful to people. he he
I was thinking of doing an car race (kind of like an NFS styled one). Not a lot of Brickfilmers do car stuff so I want to try something a little different......
I was thinking of doing an car race (kind of like an NFS styled one). Not a lot of Brickfilmers do car stuff so I want to try something a little different......
I'm going to do a big car chases in a Batman film.
Just an idea I had which my help you do this, but when animating a car go along the road in a dolly shot, deconstruct the buildings or background as they exit the frame, then rebuild them in front of the car differently before they come back in. This will give an amazing look of vastness which could be quite amazing.
Sounds cool, I'll try that! Before I start filming I'm going to need some more bricks. I have a very limited supply of them haha.
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