i have an idea to make horror film to take place at a hospis. maby its a hospis for people with special needs I.E possesed or crazy people. the only thing is i cant think of anything that could serv as the climax of the story at a hospis. please help me
The climax of the story is what happens between the protagonist and the antagonist. Not what happens at the location.
Take for example "Halloween". If you were to say, "I have an idea to make horror film to take place at someone's house. Maybe that house has kids and a babysitter in it. The only thing is, I can't think of anything that could serve as the climax of the story at a house."
Do you think anyone - even you - could come up with the climax of "Halloween"?
Once you have created the "hero" and identified his/her goal and struggle and then thrown the "villain" in the path of that goal, then you will find the climax of your story.
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here's an idea:
your main character is chasing the antagonist inside the asylum, but the he(villian) lets all the inmates loose; so now your hero tries to catch the villian while trying to stay alive in the big mess.
hope it helps you in any way.
good luck!
Or this could a serious dramatic film (drop the possession though)....the climax would be much more affecting and profound...few horror movies are worth anything but the ones that are have highly identified characters. And what climax to Halloween are you talking about, Registered? If you're talking about the Jamie Lee Curtis's brother thing....that wasnt introduced until the started making crappy sequals...that whole fil was just an excercise in terror and suspense and the reason it worked is because you can identify and care deeply for the victims in it.
Plus, a horror film set in a mental hospital isn't really an idea you had....it's a recycled, overused plot setting that you are debating working with to create something great....if creating something that affects the audience and is a good film is really on your agenda.
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I meant highly identifiable and developed characters haha...oops!
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Maybe someone could wake up and it was all just a dream.
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Maybe someone could wake up and it was all just a dream.
If I was a 'slasher', I'd kill any writer who did that at the end of their movie, unless they got real original about it :).
Yeah, just for the record, I was being sarcastic.
It's a mental hospital. A row of patients in bed in the middle of agonizing dreams. Their faces show horror and they flop around fitfully with sensors on their heads. Then someone comes in and starts to kill them, one by one. We see the guy in the last bed is awake, but he can't move, can't get up. He suffers until the killer chops him.
Then he wakes up. It was just a dream. Each time he reacts as if he knows its just a dream and he blames the medicine. The doctors look on, making him paranoid. Then he goes through a dozen horrible scenerios, each time waking up and realizing It's just a dream. Can't repeat this too many times without it becoming humorous though.
Then end it with some shrinks watching, studying, manipulating, causing the horrible dreams. They don't notice that our patients has gone insane through the tests and avoids hte drugs and puts his sensors on the guy next to him. Instead of falling asleep he escapes and hack the doctors apart. Then end with everyone in the mental hospital asleep, with smiles on their faces, our hero gibbering insanely covered in blood, but oddly happy.
Not an entire movie there but you could make something of the just a dream that doesn't have to be hackneyed.
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Very creative rj?:D? di that take long to think of?
If it was me zakhopper i'd steer clear of 'hospis'/crazy people horror film as its very cliched and done to death (pardon the pun). Try and think outside the box. If you want to do horror i'd either go for what places scare you/will strike a cord with the audience becasue of the symbolism potential for scaryness and nasty things (hard to do with out it already having been done) or i'd try and think of non scary places and how you could twist it/find a story so that it could become scary. Boring work offices on the whole not scary but there was a place i use to work that no one could seem to leave. Bad things would happen when they did try. One day i'll get round to writing that one maybe. I like the idea of making the ordinary frightening.
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Didn't take long, thought it up as I read the post above. I just took the cliche and twisted it a bit. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. The idea is to spring you into different directions. The cliche is the "all a dream" twist at the end of a movie, so don't use it at the end, make that a part of the movie and not a cop-out.
I agree with Nikisun though, few people have been in a mental ward so there is a seperation that will make it less scary. If you made the same thing a regular hospital people can relate on a more personal level. That is where fear comes from.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
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