New horror film idea

I had this brilliant film idea while reading the review to Cabin Fever, a film that looks to build on the standard American horror genre. My film is different. The premise is simple: a group of kids heads into the woods for some camping. It starts one day as they are all getting out of highschool, on a typical Friday afternoon. As they leave school, they belittle the nerds, ram the poor science teacher's car, and run over a cat. You have all the standard archetypes represented from the normal horror films: the jock, the bitchy tramp, the adorable loser (who still sits within the popular crowd) coming out of his shell, the self-righteous bible thumper. Well, OK, so the last one is not generally in the mix, but the addition makes the film unique and revolutionary. So, the first fifteen minutes show the kids setting up camp, grilling bacon, having unsafe sex, and doing anything that a typical brainwashed American kid would consider immoral but of course very sexy at the same time. We begin to notice in the backdrop strange movement, changes in gravel pattern positioning, squirrels sprinting out of bushes without rhyme or reason, all accompanied by spooky music; perhaps Yanni played backwards. Then, the kids gradually break off into small groups of two. This is when things really get interesting.

At this point, for some strange reason, perhaps it is the giardia in the water, perhaps the bad karma due to all the squirrels they ran over to get to this campsite, all of the kids start "opening" up. Remember how there are certain epiphanies or scientific breakthroughs that have occurred at the exact same moment in time but on completely different continents? Well, the same phenomena can be observed here. All the kids begin to explain their behavior: the jock has an abusive father, the tramp's family is divorcing, and so on. This is what makes the film the emotional powerhouse it will come to be regarded. Everyone begins to shed their baggage, to come clean about their lives, and there is a moment that everyone begins to feel a liking for these kids, so trampled by the American dream and reacting as a normal American teen would if they were filthy rich and born with chiseled good looks, like off the cover of an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.

The entire time, in every scene, after the revelatory experience passed on to us, the killer listens. Emotionless, wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and a fedora, he listens, squinting and sharpening his barbeque tongs. At the end of their speeches, the kids wipe their tears, hug, and sprint off to have sex somewhere, barely escaping the slow onslaught of the killer. Yet, he is patient.

At this point the pathos is evident and striking. "Bring your hanky to this movie," the critics would jot in their notebooks at this point. The audience has begun to sympathize with these kids, bad as they may be. But, they get hacked to bits anyway. The next hour would encompass a wide range of sawing and multilation, and the first ever death on camera by spam overload (wait for the trailer!).

In the end we are forced to question: why? Well, in light of the new movements towards Buddhism, reincarnation awareness and karmic reactions, it is no longer so simple to fess up to your crimes. Most films would let us off the hook by killing these unscrupulous humans without ever letting us know why they do what they do, even if those actions aren't real but are instead the perverted fantasies of some screenwriter in LA who is snorting coke with supermodels the second he submits his screenplays. This film makes it clear that you do bad things, even if you repent, you still have to face Saddam Hussein, the worst American nightmare there is. See, otherwise, everyone in this film is just reincarnated as a slug who eats my herbs in the garden, and what good is that? You can't just do bad thing, say you are sorry, and then expect to get away with it. You just shouldn't do bad things at all. Everyone has an excuse to do bad things, and if you do, here comes Saddam Hussein. I think this is a very profound point.

OK, maybe this was more clear before I put it down on SG, but I will see what you think.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

PS: xrd. You win some kind of prize for the biggest brazennest wordiest cherry-popping post that I've seen at least.

Someone will contact you about your prize. Not me though.

I think you need to work in some evil, serial-killing rats into the story. Then it will be perfect!

Yes, and remember what a splash "Breakfast Club" made? This will be even bigger. I mean, that movie led John Hughes into stardom and allowed him to focus on truly artsy pieces like "Home Alone."

Come on, someone come up with a title.

"The Revenge of Saddam Hussein"

Saddam mask? STUPID!!!!

"The Nightmare on Saddam St. Project"

You'd need to film it on a handycam.

I don't like anything with the name Saddam Hussein in it. After all, "The Color Purple" had an elegance and depth to it that was not immediately obvious in the name, but becomes so much more after you understand what it means. How about "Gone With the Wind?" No, wait, that is taken already.

How about "Nietzche's come Knocking?"

Oh, that is so good!

Well, you need to decide if you're referring to plural Nietzches in which case there's no apostrophe.

Or if it really is Nietzche's something or other that comes knocking, then you need to specify what.

I better get credited after all this!

Is it not a contraction, like "Mikhail has come knocking" or "Mikhail's come knocking?"

Oh, and Al, you definitely have a part, if you want it.

No nudity required of course.

Ahh. I see.

Might be too highbrow for a Hollywood film.

Try "Nietzche Comes Knocking" ... less confusing.

I think there's a missing s in Nietzche too, but I can never spell his name without looking it up first.

why nietzsche? i doubt the social teenage evils you speak of would be enough to disturb him from his grave. anyway, i don't think he shared the same thoughts you have as to death being a punishment for evil doers. in thus spoke zarathustra, he spoke of the denial of life after death as a comfort to those still living.

oh, and it's spelled... nietzsche.

*edited for not having thoroughly read the comments before me.

[Edited on Sep 11, 2003 by dino]

whata bout:
"the church of jesus christ and latter-day saints project" or ojcals's project this people wont know

remember those commercials

[Edited on Sep 11, 2003 by fiendish]