• Kenneth Wood

    Member
    March 14, 2023 at 9:51 pm

    Ken Wood’s Horror Situation Track

    This extensive list of horror situations is a great checklist. It helps to expand my creative thinking on other elements of horror to add in my story.

    Concept: The longer an arachnologist keeps a mysterious, new, highly-venomous Amazonian spider alive, the more it kills and multiplies, and the questions remain, “How did this monster come to exist?” and, “Should it be allowed to live?”

    Horror Elements and Reactions by ACTS and Scenes:

    ACT 1

    Crew trapped on boat at sea. Reaction – Reactions: Captain feels trapped, hysterical, Rexy, Keaton and Sheriff horrified.

    Port Supervisor isolated in engine room – Trapped, face to face, Isolated. Reaction – Horror of Port Assistant

    Bob continues on as if business as usual, even though five people have just been killed – Denial

    Team forced to go into engine room – forced into a dangerous environment, Lured into Horror. Reaction: Fear, Trepidation, Suspense, Dread

    Keaton pinned down when body falls on him in engine room – Isolation, Face to face with monster – forced into a dangerous situation. Reaction: Panic

    Extracting venom from the spider, who is not entirely asleep – deceptive, face to face with monster, Threatened. Reaction: Escape by containing the spider again.

    Atticus shows up out of the blue – Unknown motive

    ACT 2

    As Teras wakes up during venom extractions, Rexy freezes – a character refuses to take action

    Reese plays around in lab. Doing something forbidden. He gets hit in the face with urticating hairs and – cannot see. These are spooky situations – attacked. Reaction: Denial

    Reese sees Cali Ann – attacked – watches someone else tortured and killed

    Reese is attacked and killed, Horror, Escape

    Teras tortures and kills all other venomous species in lab, including King Cobra Reaction: Creatures try to escape. Cobra tries to fight.

    Rexy discovers Reese and Cali Ann dead in lab – Loses it, hysteria

    Atticus tries to poison the horse being used to create the anti-venom.

    Teras climbs up on Rexy’s daughter – Face to face with monster, Daughter in danger. Reaction: Fight

    Rexy tries to help daughter and Teras jumps on her while she is only in a bath towel – Helping a good person and being attacked, feeling overly exposed

    Rexy’s dog, Rosco, attacks the spider – trying to help a good person and gets attacked. Reaction: Fear of loss when Rosco gets bitten.

    ACT 3

    Atticus has been thwarting plans to exterminate the spider. Working with someone, who turns out to be evil – a deceptive situation.

    CIA Operatives show up at Warehouse – Menacing strangers.

    Teras attacks and kills CIA Operatives – Horror

    Teras goes for Keaton next – Friend in danger – Horror

    Baby spiders kill Bob – Horror

    Keaton is bitten – Attacked and injured Reaction of Rexy: Come to aid, fight off spiders

    Sheriff offers to shoot off finger of Keaton, or he will die – debilitate to save Reaction:Make sacrifice to survive

    Bob and Sheriff use flamethrower to torch baby spiders and Teras. Reaction:Fight

  • Mike Coste

    Member
    March 16, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    Mike’s Horror Situation Track

    What I learned doing this assignment is to think of the characters’ motivations in each of these scenarios.

    ACT 1: SET UP FOR HORROR

    Atmosphere of Evil established: We see Emily walking into a classroom that she has never been to. The students are taking a test, and the teacher tells her to sit down and join them. Emily wakes up from the dream.

    Horror Situation: Emily is trapped; she has to take a test she isn’t prepared for.

    Reaction-Try to Solve It: She’ sits down to take the test.

    Connect with Characters: Jacob texts Emily to invite her to hang out. After they pick her up they meet up with the rest, and Emily tells them about her dream. Heather tells them a legend about a scary abandoned classroom building and suggests they go visit it.

    Horror Situation: An abandoned building in which people have disappeared.

    Denial of Horror: Disbelief in the story.

    The Characters are warned not to do it: As they get to the entrance of the building, Jacob and Brad try to talk everyone out of it.

    Horror Situation: The group reaches the building.

    Denial of Horror: No problem to see.

    Horror Situation: Warnings from Jacob and Brad.

    Denial of Horror: The group decides to move on.

    Safety Taken Away: Heather enters the building, and the rest follow. The door clicks, and they realize they are locked in.

    Horror Situation: Locked in the building.

    Reaction: The group tries to find a way out.

    Monster: The introduction of the beast: A voice comes on the intercom telling the students to get to class. There is a test in Room 313.

    Horror Situation: Someone has trapped them; they have a plan.

    Reaction: They decide to look for a way to escape.

    ACT 2: THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Isolated/trapped/abducted: They split up, looking for a way out. There is none.

    Horror Situation: No escape.

    <b class=””>Reaction: Frantically keep trying to escape.

    One of us is killed: Monitor screens come on showing David trapped with 2 cups, one of which he has to drink: one is water one is poison. They have to go to Room 313 to answer the question to determine which one he drinks. They answer incorrectly.

    Horror Situation: One of the group is kidnapped.

    Reaction: Group goes to Room 313.

    Horror Situation: The group needs to solve a problem to save them.

    Reaction: The group tries to solve the problem.

    Horror Situation: The first person dies.

    Reaction: Terror. What next?

    MIDPOINT: THE MONSTER IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT: The notice that Madison is not in the room, and they blame her, but the monitor comes back on and she is the next victim. They get another question wrong.

    Horror Situation: Someone is missing.

    Reaction: Denial, in a way. They assume she’s involved.

    Horror Situation: She’s been kidnapped.

    Reaction: More terror at the realization that someone outside the group is definitely responsible.

    Horror Situation: The group has to solve a problem.

    Reaction: The group tries to solve the next problem.

    Horror Situation: Another one bites the dust.

    Reaction: Terror. Now what?

    Terrorized: They wonder who’s going to be next. The lights go off, and Jacob disappears.

    Horror Situation: Another one disappears.

    Reaction: Waiting for the next sho to drop.

    ACT 3: FULL OUT HORROR

    Fight to the death: They realize they have to find a way to answer the person’s questions. Jacob is in the room whining and complaining, trying to bargain with the monster.

    Horror Situation: Jacob is captive.

    Reaction: Panic at realizing what comes next.

    Horror Situation: They’ll have to solve another problem.

    Reaction: Worried about the next problem.

    Hysteria: Emily gets the question right. Jacob is let go. Now they are told that the one who answers the question right is the next victim.

    Horror Situation: They have to solve another problem.

    Reaction: Temporary relief as Emily solves it.

    Horror Situation: Emily’s next.

    Reaction: Emily passes on a strategy.

    The thrilling escape from death: Before she is taken, Emily passes a note on to Brad. Brad asks the professor for an exam review.

    Horror Situation: The monster is invited into the room.

    Reaction: Time to put the plan to work.

    Death returns to take one more: Jacob gets an extra credit question. If he answers correctly he’s released. He can also choose not to answer it and join the group. He takes the question and is incorrect.

    Horror Situation: Another problem to solve.

    Reaction: Jacob is abandoning the group. Mixed feelings as they are being abandoned but don’t want him hurt.

    Horror Situation: A third one dies.

    Reaction: Despair as it seems everyone will die.

    Resolution: The professor teaches the class. Brad asks for a sample problem, and the professor sends him to the board to do it. Brad wrestles the professor and pushed him out the window. We see the professor’s body motionless on the asphalt below.

    Horror Situation: The monster is engaged.

    Reaction: The monster is attacked and thrown out the window.

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  • Jalynn Venis

    Member
    March 17, 2023 at 8:32 pm

    Jalynn’s Horror Situation Track

    What I learned doing this is that every horror situation I came up with quickly offered multiple reactions that I could choose from to happen to the characters. These in turn moved the story forward to its horrifying conclusion.

    Wildcats Concept: Fraternity brothers play a drinking game with deadly results at the ranch estate of one of them. A frat brother entices the family’s big cats to eat the evidence of a dead pledge and when the cats get loose in the house, everyone is “game.”

    Act 1 – Set-Up for Horror

    Atmosphere
    of Evil established

    Three cars (a BMW, Mazda Miata, Ford Explorer) speed down a lonely road toward a country estate under a full moon. Cole, whose family owns the ranch, has three fraternity brothers in his car, plus a pledge; Ethan has one frat brother; and Wesley, a pledge, has another pledge with him.

    The cars pull up to a ranch estate out in the middle of the countryside. The guys get out of the cars and walk along the big cat cages that lead into their wing inside the house. The cats growl. The panther puts his head against the bars, and Cole reaches out to give his head a scratch. He warns the others not to touch the cats, but Ethan tells a pledge it’s OK to pet the cougar. When Benji does, the cougar screams at him and scratches his hand with a claw before he can pull it away.

    Connect
    with the characters

    The characters’ share stories about Cole’s “cats” as they drive up to the ranch estate.

    The
    characters are warned not to do it.

    The guys are told repeatedly to avoid eye contact with the cats and not to pet them.

    Denial
    of Horror

    Cole assures the guys they’re safe around the cats if they do what he says.

    Safety
    taken away

    The pledges participate in a hazing drinking game. One pledge, Gary, refuses and is told to leave. Ethan “spills” some alcohol into the cats’ water. It seems to affect them badly

    HORROR SITUATION: 8-10 drinks in an hour are enough to cause death. Ethan and the other frat brothers start everyone on Jell-O shots, then get the pledges to see who can drink the most Tequila the fastest and be exempt from fraternity chores for the first month.

    REACTION: Benji, the most gung-ho of the pledges, drinks way too much, and develops severe alcohol poisoning.

    HORROR SITUATION: Benji gets very sick and goes to the bathroom to upchuck. When he comes out, he decides to go sit with the big cats to try to sober up.

    REACTION: When the cats see Benji inside their suite in the house, they get very excited and start pacing. Benji watches them for a moment before his eyes roll back in his head as he has a seizure and starts choking. Benji dies on his own vomit. The cats react wildly.

    HORROR SITUATION: Malcolm goes looking for Benji and finds him in the cat compound. REACTION: He tries to rouse Benji, but realizes that he’s dead.

    HORROR SITUATION: The guys debate what to do about Benji and if they’re going to get in trouble for his death. Cole worries about what his father will say. Ethan walks away from them and goes back to the big cat compound where Benji’s body is. He gets an idea and pours tequila into the cats’ water. The cats drink it and grow loud and angry. He goes out of the cat compound to a control panel and opens the doors of two of the cages.

    REACTION: The panther and the cougar stride out, sniff Benji’s body, and pounce on him, tearing into his flesh. They fight each other a bit, then go back to eating the body. The third cat growls and screams.

    Monster:
    The nature of the beast.

    Ethan decides to get rid of the evidence and releases the panther from its cage to eat the pledge Benji’s carcass. Then he realizes that a whole human is too much for one cat, so he lets the cougar out of its cage to help eat the pledge.

    The cats fight over the food and tear into the body of Benji.

    HORROR SITUATION: Wesley, who stopped drinking long before Benji did, gets helped to the toilet by some of the guys to vomit.

    REACTION: Cole realizes that Ethan, Creighton and Kit have gone too far in coaxing the pledges to binge drink. He’s starting to worry that they may have bigger problems than the mess Wesley is making in the bathroom with his projectile vomiting.

    Act 2 – The Point of No Return

    Isolated
    / Trapped / Abducted

    When Cole sees what Ethan has done, he freaks and tries to get the cats back in their cages, but they’ve developed a taste for human flesh and go after him. Cole escapes, but so do the big cats. The frat brothers are running from the cat compound through the house, trying to get away from them.

    One
    of us gets killed

    Kit, following Ethan’s lead in feeding Benji to the cats, runs away from the cats with Ethan. When it comes to one or both of them getting eaten, Ethan pushes Kit into the path of one of the cats.

    HORROR SITUATION: The cougar walks into the kitchen where two frat brothers Ethan and Kit are trying to find weapons. They grab knives. The cougar leaps up on the kitchen island and growls at them.

    REACTION: Ethan throws his knife at the cat, but it bounces off. He turns and runs. The cat screams and lunges for Kit who can’t get away in time and mauls him. Cole runs into the kitchen and talks the cougar down with a broom.

    HORROR SITUATION: The cougar is running down a hallway on the second floor. He sees one of the boys, Creighton, and goes for him.

    REACTION: The frat boy climbs up on the railing of the overlook down into the family room. He sees a large light fixture and jumps for it. The cat stands up on the railing makes ready to jump after him. The boy lets go as the fixture starts to come loose from the ceiling and falls onto a couch. The cougar jumps to the light fixture. The boy leaps off the couch and runs as the whole fixture falls with the cat to the floor.

    HORROR SITUATION: Ethan is hiding in a closet. The panther approaches and smells him. He sniffs all around the door. Finally, he rakes his claws down the door trying to open it.

    REACTION: Ethan is holding onto the door handle like his life depends on it. He manages to keep the door closed until the panther gets distracted and moves on.

    MIDPOINT – The Monster is Worse Than We Thought

    Full
    pursuit by the killer

    When the guys realize that Cole can’t control the cats or get them back into their cages, they’re each on their own to avoid the cats as they prowl about the house and the frat brothers get separated from each other.

    Terrorized

    Cole is horrified that the cats have turned on him and tries to get them back in their cages unsuccessfully. He realizes he has to shoot them. He runs to his father’s study and gets a gun.

    HORROR SITUATION: Ethan finds Cole and tells him he needs to get guns and kill these cats before they kill the frat brothers. Cole is conflicted. These are family pets in his mind, but he realizes there’s no other choice.

    REACTION: Cole heads to his father’s study with Ethan behind him. Cole pulls a rifle out of a gun case and grabs a holster with a pistol. Ethan picks a pistol and a sword off the wall. They load the guns with ammo.

    HORROR SITUATION: Kellie, the housekeeper, is asleep in her bed when she’s awakened by a scratching at the door. She looks down at the light under the door and sees a big black paw raking the carpet under it. She looks at the door handle? Is it latched? Before she can get out of bed, the panther throws his weight against the door and pushes it open.

    REACTION: Kellie screams and the panther sees her and jumps up on the bed straddling her and pinning her down with fear. Cole sees the panther going into her room and races down the hall to her. He picks up a desk chair and pushes the cat off the bed and into her bathroom and closes the door.

    HORROR SITUATION: The panther in Kellie’s bathroom breaks through a window and gets outdoors on a section of roof.

    REACTION: The big cat walks around to a balcony, jumps onto it, and paws open a sliding glass door that’s ajar. He listens to the screams inside the house and trots off.

    HORROR SITUATION: Another frat brother, Phillip, is hiding in a shower stall and holding the door closed. The panther comes in. The panther sniffs the air, and looks around but sees no one. He walks up to the shower and tries to push open the door.

    REACTION: The boy holds it tight, but the cat jumps up onto a cabinet and stands up, looking down into the shower at the boy. He growls as Phillip screams at him. The boy turns on the shower and directs the head at the panther’s face. It doesn’t like that. The frat boys pound on the door and distract the panther.

    HORROR SITUATION: Malcolm on the second floor has found a whip and when he turns a corner trying to find the others, he runs into the cougar. He cracks the whip and spooks the cat for a few moments.

    REACTION: Malcolm thinks he has the upper hand and tries to back away, but the cat follows him. He cracks the whip again, but this time the cat keeps coming at him. Malcolm gets to the stairway leading downstairs and runs down it to a landing then trips and tumbles down the rest of the steps. The cougar follows after him and the panther pounces on him when he gets to the bottom. He screams hoping help will come.

    HORROR SITUATION: Cole and Ethan are looking for the cats with their guns ready. The panther is chewing on Malcolm who is dead by now. When the cougar sees Cole, he leaps for him.

    REACTION: Cole tries to react quickly enough to get a shot off. But the cougar is on him before he can. Ethan takes the sword and rams it into the cougar’s side. The cat screams and runs off. Ethan helps Cole up as the panther stares at them.

    HORROR SITUATION: Gary, the pledge who wouldn’t drink, doesn’t feel right about leaving the ranch. He turns his car around and drives back. He parks the car and walks in through the front door when he hears screaming.

    REACTION: Gary sees the panther chewing on Malcolm and shouts then turns and runs leaving the door wide open. He scrambles up on the wired and barred cat enclosure and watches the cougar as it runs out the door looking for him.

    HORROR SITUATION: Cole yells for everyone to get out of the house if they can.

    REACTION: Ethan scrambles into the cat wing to see what’s left of Benji. To his chagrin, there’s still a lot of pieces left. He thinks it’s OK, since the cats have torn into the others. Then he notices the cheetah is missing. Where did it go?

    HORROR SITUATION: The cheetah is moving through a caged enclosure that takes it from inside the house in the cat wing to the outdoor enclosure. When it reaches the outdoors, it sees Gary sitting on top of its enclosure watching for the cougar.

    REACTION: The cheetah runs toward Gary and jumps up in the air trying to get a bite of him. This scares Gary into falling off of the enclosure.

    Act 3 – Full Out Horror

    Fight
    to the death

    One-by-one, the other guys keep getting picked off by the cats and/or hiding from them.

    The
    thrilling escape from death

    Cole and Ethan fight off the cougar and rescue Malcolm who later dies.

    HORROR SITUATION: Cole and Ethan haul Malcolm out of the house and away from the entrance. Cole goes back in for Kellie and anyone else who’s still alive and pulls her out.

    He gets Kellie into his Explorer. He sees Gary and tells him to get back into his car. Then he goes back in for anyone else he can find.

    REACTION: Kellie watches as Ethan tries to get Malcolm over to his car with Cole’s help. They get him inside the back seat. Cole tells Ethan he’s going back inside to look for others.

    HORROR SITUATION: Ethan is walking around to the driver’s seat of his car. That’s the moment the panther jumps on top of the car, staring Ethan down.

    REACTION: Ethan backs away and bumps into Cole’s Explorer. He asks Kellie to unlock the doors so he can get inside. Kellie scrambles to unlock the doors, but not before the panther jumps on Ethan and starts shredding him. The cat takes part of Ethan’s leg.

    HORROR SITUATION: Wesley is passed out on a guest bed after drinking so much. Cole finds him and carries him out with the rifle slung across his back. He stops to rest near the front door and yells for anyone else inside to help him. Phillip comes out of the library and grabs Wesley under one arm as Cole takes the other. They look towards the front door to see the cougar standing there eyeing them.

    REACTION: Cole tells Phillip to carry Wesley while he reaches for the rifle. The cougar charges them and all Cole can do is whip the rifle butt around and hit the cougar in the head. It gets a paw on him and rakes his chest. Cole pulls a pistol out of his holster and shoots the cougar who bounds away.

    HORROR SITUATION: Creighton rises up from the back seat floorboard of Cole’s Explorer scaring Kellie out of her wits and telling Kellie not to open the car.

    REACTION: Kellie pushes him away telling Creighton they’ve got to help the others. Creighton is almost out of his mind with fear and prevents Kellie from opening the doors for Ethan.

    Death
    returns to take one or more.

    The panther tears part of Ethan’s leg off, as he struggles to get into a car. Cole comes upon him and fights off the panther.

    Resolution

    Cole comes face-to-face with his pet panther, who he wounded earlier. He’s conflicted about shooting it, but it gives him no choice when it leaps at him. He shoots, the cat mauls him, but dies. The ordeal is over, or so we think.

    First responders arrive and gather up the dead and wounded. They wrap Ethan’s leg and wounds on his face. He’s lost a lot of blood and they don’t expect him to survive. Cole goes back to the indoor cat cages. He sees that the cheetah’s cage has been opened by someone, and the cat is gone.

    Inside the ambulance, Ethan’s eyes open in his bloody, bandaged face and he smiles slightly.

  • Aram Bauman

    Member
    March 18, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    Spike’s Horror Situation Track

    What I learned doing this assignment is filing the situations in some kind of order.

    ACT 1:

    Connect with Characters: Typical high school kids doing teenage stuff. It’s all about the likes on IG.

    Horror Situation: After pranking old lady in botanica things start to happen. They bump into minion on way out.

    Atmosphere of evil established: Logan has first of the visions in class. Chad finds weird alter in front of his door. He kicks it out of the way. Old Bruha senses he’s been marked.

    Reaction: Chad thinks the old Bruha is a crazy old lady.

    Spooky Situation: While editing the prank footage they see that most of it didn’t record but you can hear chanting in the background. In the static of the footage they notice symbols that you can barely see. Pissed off there was no footage Chad storms out. The others stay behind and play the chanting again. Deshon mentions that they should turn that off. As the chanting finishes, flies start to land on things.

    Denial of Horror: They blow the visions off. Blow off Old Bruha.

    Safety taken away: Dreams are effected. They can’t get sleep.

    Horror Situation: Logan notices if he holds flashlight up to his hand he can see maggots crawling around inside of it. Shows it to Karen.

    Reaction: They try to show it to other people but they don’t see it.

    Horror Situation: Kamal is smoking weed with his friends.As he is checking IG he sees the minion with a life-size, life-like voodoo doll of Kamal on one of the posts. He puts a pin into the hand of the doll and Kamal drops his phone. When he picks it up there are maggots underneath it. No one else sees them.

    Reaction: Kamal mentions this to Deshon.

    Horror Situation: Karen is in mirror taking selfies with her cat and every time she takes on the picture comes out with a tooth sticking out of her face. She goes to take another but the minion shows up in the pic behind her. She freaks out and leaves.

    Horror Situation: Chad is in the gym working out and after he does weights he goes to mirror to flex. The veins in his arms start to move around like they are worms. He tried to touch them but when he does his hand curles the opposite way. When he tries to point down his finger goes up.

    ACT 2 — THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Internal Conflict in the group/ Character refuses to take action: Group gets together and talk about what they saw. Each is a little shaken up except Chad. He mentions the Bruha lady not knowing she is a Bruha. They ask if he has seen her again and maybe she can help. He thinks this is a stupid idea.

    Reaction: The group starts to reject Chad.

    Horror Situation: Logan is eating dinner with his folks. His mom puts the plate down in front of him and he says “he can’t eat this”. His mom asks why and he says “there are fucking bugs in it” and picks it up and shoves in her face. As he’s holding the plate up to her his arm starts to grow these things that look like barnecles but skin like. One of the barnecles start to throb and splits open and a baby frog crawls out. He drops the plate and more frogs start to hatch out of his arms. He runs to bathroom with razor but his arms are normal again.

    Reaction: Calls Kamal to get some weed. He also calls Karen.

    Connect with Characters: Logan, Kamal, Deshon, and Karen share their getting high stories while smoking weed in the park.

    Spooky Situation: Kamal and Deshon are driving home and they notice a smell coming from the back of car. They open trunk to find some kind of shrine. Deshon takes pics. After tossing everything they close trunk the old Bruha is there giving them a scare.

    Reaction: They both jump in car and speed off. Deshon go sees his aunt.

    Horror Situation: Karen is going through IG and she comes across the minion. He holds a cat doll but there are real bones and blood on it. He wraps a string around its neck and pulls. She hears her cat screaming from other room. She finds it caught up in the window blinds dead.

    Reaction: She takes it down and looks through the IG again for the minion.

    Horror Situation: Chad is on his phone going through filters. The one with the spiders come up and when he opens his mouth spiders crawl out. He laughs and does it again. This time real spiders crawl out of his mouth and out of phone all over his hands. He starts to scream but his mouth is stuck shut with spider webs.

    Reaction: Chad runs to bathroom and can see eyes between the webs in his mouth.

    ACT 3:

    Try to Solve it: Chad and Logan look for old Bruha lady. They find her.

    Reaction: The group goes to Bruha lady’s house. She does some Bruha stuff.

    Horror Situation: Karen finds Bruha lady dead in her house.

    Reaction: Call group over to house.

    Horror Situation:

    Ran out of time. Stopped to catch up with other lessons.

  • Kris Kristensen

    Member
    March 18, 2023 at 11:04 pm

    Kris’ Horror Situation Track

    What I learned doing this assignment Is that I have a lot of repetitive beats, but I love that I now have a large pallet of Horror Situations to pick from. This will allow me to go through my next draft and flesh out a lot of scenes with beats that I hadn’t even considered before.

    <b role=”presentation”>ACT 1 — SET UP FOR HORROR

    Atmosphere of Evil established – The Quarterman’s origin. Fergus Brody is drawn and quartered by conspirators; punishment for atrocities that Brody’s father committed.

    HORROR SITUATION: Shackled, Physically Tortured, Menacing Stranger, Walking into a trap

    REACTION: Escape

    Connect with the characters – Present day, we meet the family; Pete, Liam, Henry, and Anne celebrating Liam’s 8th birthday at Anne’s pub.

    The characters are warned not to do it. – Upon discovering the Quarterman’s human remains, one of Pete’s co-workers warns them to cover the remains back up, and leave them be.

    HORROR SITUATION: Internal conflict in the group, A character refuses to take action, Another character loses it (hysterical)

    REACTION: Denial

    Denial of Horror – Pete argues that the Quarterman isn’t real, just an old wives tale to keep children in line.

    Safety taken away – Pete covers the Quarterman with a tarp, rather than rebury it.

    Monster: The nature of the beast. – While no one is watching, the Quarterman awakens, disappears, and begins his killing spree, starting with Nurse O’Leary.

    Pete returns on Henry’s orders to dispose of the human remains, but the Quarterman has mysteriously disappeared, and confronted by Briggs – a poacher.

    HORROR SITUATION: Menacing Stranger

    REACTION: Denial

    The Quarterman takes his first victim, Nurse O’Leary.

    HORROR SITUATION: Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Impending doom, Injured, wounded, or debilitated, Walking into a trap

    REACTION: Escape

    <b role=”presentation”>ACT 2 — THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Pete is the first to discover his friend Nurse O’Leary’s mutilated remains.

    HORROR SITUATION: Lured into the horror, Unknown motive

    REACTION: Solve it

    Isolated / Trapped / Abducted – Kieran, Liam’s schoolyard bully, is abducted, and later found murdered, one of his legs torn off.

    HORROR SITUATION: Impending doom, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Doing something forbidden

    REACTION: Hide

    Kieran’s Mom discovers that he’s missing, and there’s foul play involved.

    HORROR SITUATION: Being lured into danger, Impending doom, Mentally tortured, Friends in danger, Lured into the horror

    REACTION: Solve It

    Kieran’s remains are discovered by a search party.

    HORROR SITUATION: Impending doom, Mentally tortured, Another character loses it (hysterical), Internal conflict in the group

    REACTION: SOLVE IT

    One of us killed – During the search for Kieran, Charlie Drake is isolated, and he comes face to face with the Quarterman… he is killed, and one of HIS legs is torn off.

    HORROR SITUATION: Being lured into danger, The only one who sees the monster, Attacked or chased, Impending doom, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Injured, wounded, or debilitated, See another killed, Dilemma: Who to save: Them or me? Or Person A versus Person B?, Friends in danger, Face to face with the monster, Walking into a trap

    REACTION: Denial/Fight

    Pete discovers Drake’s body, and sees the Quarterman making its way into the darkened hillside on the outskirts of town. He follows. He stumbles down a hillside, injuring himself, the Quarterman confronts him, is about to kill him, but for some yet unknown reason lets him live.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, The only one who sees the monster, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Injured, wounded, or debilitated, Unknown motive, Fall through the floor, Face to face with the monster. Helping a good person and being attacked

    REACTION: HIDE/ESCAPE/Solve

    Having hired Briggs to pick up the Quarterman’s trail from where he had his last confrontation with him, Pete, Briggs and Lonergan enter the Quarterman’s lair, only to discover that he’s living in the old castle that Henry now owns.

    HORROR SITUATION: Lost, Impending doom, Monster approaching, Friends in danger, Internal conflict in the group, Can not see (fog, being underwater), speak or yell, hear (too loud or too quiet), Walking into a trap

    REACTION: SOLVE

    <b role=”presentation”>MIDPOINT: The monster is worse than we thought!

    Full pursuit by the killer – Having tracked the Quarterman back to his lair, Pete discovers that his family is the final link in the chain, and this his son Liam is the actual target.

    Terrorized – An assault on Pete’s home, the Quarterman attempts to run off with Liam, but Pete fends him off for now, but not without a casualty; Dermot Lonergan, local folklorist (mentor) is killed by the monster.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, Attacked or chased, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Out of the frying pan and into the fire, See another killed, Friends in danger, Internal conflict in the group, A character refuses to take action, Face to face with the monster

    REACTION: HIDE, ESCAPE, FIGHT

    Finally, the police inspector sends two of his men out to inspect the castle. They’re trapped and killed by the Quarterman.

    HORROR SITUATION: Lost, Being lured into danger, Attacked or chased, Forced into a dangerous environment, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you. See another killed, Dilemma: Who to save: Them or me? Or Person A versus Person B?, Friends in danger, Another character loses it (hysterical), Threatened, Face to face with the monster, Walking into a trap, Can not see (fog, being underwater), speak or yell, hear (too loud or too quiet)

    REACTION: Escape

    When Liam overhears Pete tell Anne that never wanted children, he runs away to hide in the castle. Pete follows him into the bowels, where they’re saved by Henry just as the Quarterman closes in on them.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, Attacked or chased, Forced into a dangerous environment, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, A character refuses to take action, Face to face with the monster, Can not see (fog, being underwater), speak or yell, hear (too loud or too quiet), Helping a good person and being attacked

    REACTION: HIDE

    After an argument with Henry, Pete finds himself mired down in the bog outside the castle.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, Forced into a dangerous environment, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Tricked, Internal conflict in the group, A character refuses to take action, Slimed, Environment changing around you, Walking into a trap

    REACTION: Solve it

    While watching guard as Pete buries the Quarterman inside it, Briggs is killed when the Quarterman secretly escapes out a back route.

    HORROR SITUATION: Attacked or chased, Friends in danger, Face to face with the monster , Helping a good person and being attacked

    REACTION: Fight it

    <b role=”presentation”>ACT 3 — FULL OUT HORROR

    As Henry is collecting his gun at home to go back to the castle to dispatch of the Quarterman, he turns to find the behemoth in his living room.

    HORROR SITUATION: The only one who sees the monster, Attacked or chased, Impending doom, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Out of the frying pan and into the fire, Threatened, Face to face with the monster
    REACTION: FIGHT IT

    Fight to the death – Thinking that he has buried the Quarterman in his castle, Pete returns home to discover that the Quarterman has now taken not only his father’s (Henry) life, but also his head.

    Hysteria – Pete is horrified that he now must go head to head with his father, who is now the Quarterman, who also dons several arms from his victims like a Shiva.

    The thrilling escape from death – Pete sets the Quarterman ablaze, along with his father’s house.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, The only one who sees the monster, Attacked or chased, No escape or their escape route has been cut off, Monster approaching, Monster trying to get to you, Out of the frying pan and into the fire, Injured, wounded, or debilitated, Transformed into something else (zombie, possessed, touched rotting monster), Tricked, Friends in danger, A character becomes a liability (physically), Face to face with the monster, Walking into a trap, Lured into the horror, Working with someone, then they become the evil one

    REACTION: ESCAPE, FIGHT

    Death returns to take one or more. – Pete returns into the home to save a precious gift that he promised to his son, but before he can make it out safely, the Quarterman wraps chain around Pete in a stranglehold, and he must escape not just the monster, but also the burning home.

    Resolution – Pete severs the chain between himself and the Quarterman/Henry, traps the monster in the house as it burns up in smoke.

    HORROR SITUATION: Trapped, Shackled, Attacked or chased, Forced into a dangerous environment, Out of the frying pan and into the fire, Injured, wounded, or debilitated, Possessed, Face to face with the monster, Environment changing around you, Helping a good person and being attacked

    REACTION: FIGHT IT

  • Bill Anderson

    Member
    March 20, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Bill Anderson’s Horror Situation Track for MOTHERLAND

    What I learned doing this assignment is how useful such clearly defined elements of this track are for testing the validity of the horror situations.

    ACT 1 — SET UP FOR HORROR

    Atmosphere of Evil established

    The sparse leaves of an ancient, gnarled tree atop a rocky outcrop on an isolated farm shiver as the last sunlight of the day is crushed below the horizon by the menacing clouds of night: we follow the sugars of photosynthesis inside the tree down to its roots which will exude them into the darkness of the dirt. A twisted root swells and splits off a piece of the rock it’s penetrated – this snaps, falls to the bottom of the outcrop, and smashes into the skull of a fox that was eating the entrails of its prey. As the fox spasms in death, something we can’t quite make out in the darkness drags the fox to its underground lair, where it disappears just before a car headlights beam sweeps past, headed along the track to the isolated farmhouse…

    HORROR SITUATION: some unseen force/thing kills a fox and drags its body underground.

    REACTION – DENIAL Jan and Michael glimpse the fox disappearing strangely, but dismiss anything untoward.

    Connect with the characters

    … the car brings eldest daughter Jan and her husband Michael to her father Jeb’s birthday celebration joining Jan’s two sisters: (pregnant) Beth + partner Jack, and Leah. Lively family reunion, fun and old scores – the one member they can all easily relate to is Jeb’s wise old farm dog who is beyond happy to see them all together…

    The characters are warned not to do it.… Jeb announces he’s going to sell the failing family farm and divide the proceeds. The family start to discuss why/if/how they’ll do this but, out of character, the dog begins to bark incessantly making talk impossible. Deaf veterinarian Leah senses something beyond the dog… Jeb hears prized pregnant cow in distress outside – through a night storm Jeb and Leah attend to complications with the birth of the calf, as the others lie awake. In the same moment, at the height of the storm: the gnarled tree is blown over, to reveal a skeleton rising up out of the ground entwined in the bolus of its roots, and permeated by a mycelial web; the two-headed hideously deformed calf is born as its mother dies horribly; Beth wakes everyone in the farm house screaming with Brackston Hicks contractions (Jan is jealous she’s not pregnant too) <div>


    HORROR SITUATION: crazy/possessed barking dog, birth of hideously deformed calf

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    REACTION – DENIAL: Jeb and the family ignores these unnatural harbingers HIDE: Leah hides her feelings of dread about how the dead calf and mother reflect her own deformed birth – killing her own mother.

    Denial of Horror

    Daylight comes and the wind has subsided into heavy rain – a silent postman delivers a single letter: addressed to the Mother of the family – who died 30 years ago giving birth to Leah: it’s from a financial firm who have managed a nest-egg fund the Mother had secretly invested to mature now – on her 65<sup>th</sup> birthday – and over the years it’s grown into enough that means they won’t have to sell the farm. Everything will be OK – All they need to do is produce mum’s death certificate and will and the money’s theirs…

    Safety taken away

    …but Jeb violently, irrationally refuses, to produce any documents – grabs the nest-egg letter and storms out of the house into rain that has become biblical in its intensity – he’s terrified, running to escape this gauntlet from his past…

    HORROR SITUATION: Jeb refuses to act – Mother has come back from the grave

    REACTION – HIDE: Jeb doesn’t want the family to discover his secret about Mother’s death.

    Monster: The nature of the beast.

    … when a landslide suddenly opens up the ground in front of him and he slides into the crevasse but doesn’t fall to the bottom: his neck is abruptly caught by a noose-like root that starts to asphyxiate him – family rescue him before he dies, but Jeb’s unconscious body is limp as they drag him out of the crevasse – Jeb’s neck is broken, but he’s breathing.

    HORROR SITUATION: Jeb is nearly killed by Mother

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE the family rescue injured Jeb and save his life. DENIAL – they all force themselves to believe it was an accident.

    ACT 2 — THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Isolated / Trapped / Abducted

    Landslides have blocked/riven the track out of the farm – no escape by vehicle – and there’s no landline or mobile signal to call for help for injured Jeb.

    HORROR SITUATION: isolation, cut off from help

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE

    Rain stops. Beth gives nursing Leah a break as Jan and Jack search in Jeb’s office for Mother documents – barren Jan makes sexual advances to fertile Jack, but Beth is too close… Michael tries in vain to repair the landline, and Leah goes to see the extent of storm damage on farm – Leah discovers the uprooted skeleton and a distinctive ring on one of its fingers.

    HORROR SITUATION: face to face with the monster

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE / HIDE Leah secretly tries to understand

    Coming back from broken landline Michael discovers Jan and Jack secretly having sex in a barn – Michael backs away… Leah confirms the distinctive ring on a photo of her mother casually unearthed in Jeb’s bedroom by Jan and Jack.

    One of us killed

    Jeb’s breathing becomes more laboured – the family discover mould has mysteriously appeared in Jeb’s bedding – spores may be damaging Jeb’s lungs – Leah notices the same mould has appeared on the nest-egg letter– Jack discovers and closely examines distinctive, unfamiliar mushrooms are growing through the floorboards – family put it down to a leak in the roof caused by the storm, but it’s growth seems astonishingly rapid and Jeb is deteriorating so fast that they decide to send for help.

    HORROR SITUATION: consuming fungus, unseen poison, rot, decay

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE they will get medical help for Jeb

    Jack volunteers to walk miles to the nearest doctor, and Michael says he’ll accompany him. On their journey they pass the uprooted skeleton tree but don’t see the skeleton as they leave the farm. The skeleton sees them… Michael confronts Jack for having sex with Jan and threatens to reveal it and jeopardise Jack’s relationship to Beth and his share of the farm. Jack dismisses impotent Michael with contempt, and Michael attacks him. But bleeding Jack is only hurt enough to get mad and chases terrified Michael through a forest. Jack is overtaken by what looks like a root unearthing itself like a snake wriggling under fallen leaves to catch up with sprinting Michael: Jack sees the root surface to trip up Michael who flies though the air, smashes his head on a rock, and falls face down in a pool of storm water….

    HORROR SITUATION: environment changing around you/monster approaching/see another killed

    REACTION – DENIAL

    MIDPOINT: The monster is worse than we thought!

    Full pursuit by the killer

    Jack knows what he saw but can’t understand it – he lifts the root beside him from under the leaves and confirms it’s freshly uprooted itself. As he puts it down it seems to retighten itself to the ground. He hears Michael choking in the water, but as he goes to help him leaves of the forest floor start rippling as they move towards him from various directions. Jack abandons Michael (who drowns) as he runs for his life – he leaps over the tracks of the subterranean roots as they catch up with him, but they can swiftly change direction and there are more and more of them coming – a three way root pincer movement almost gets him as he propels himself out of the wood into a grassy field near the farmhouse – the grass moves towards him in waves as he sprints back to the house…

    HORROR SITUATION: Monster trying to get you/ environment changing around you

    REACTION – ESCAPE Jack flees back to the safety of the farmhouse

    Terrorized

    … Jack bursts into the farmhouse in terror and tells what’s happened – Beth is terrified, believes bleeding shaman Jack’s story, Jan is distraught and suspicious of Jack’s crazy explanation of Michael’s disappearance/demise. Leah is concerned for Jeb and looks again at the mushrooms near Jeb that Jack earlier cut to examine closely – sees Jack wide-eyed with fear of everything outside.

    HORROR SITUATION: suspecting someone has been possessed

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    She slips out the door with the dog and carefully heads towards Mother’s skeleton as if the ground is a minefield

    HORROR SITUATION: suspecting forces of nature

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    So far nothing untoward is happening: grass and roots all normal, dog happy

    – Leah doesn’t see Jan watching her closely from a window. When Leah gets to skeleton she sees that the same mushrooms have now appeared in the ground beside her mother. Leah examines the mushrooms carefully – are they hallucinogenic? Did Jack absorb some of their active ingredient?

    HORROR SITUATION: suspecting forces of nature

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    Protecting her hand with a leaf she picks a mushroom and offers it to the dog – he sniffs it carefully: uninterested, no sign of danger. Leah looks closely at the ring on her mother’s finger She puts her hand inside the skeleton and gently touches a ball of roots where her mother’s womb would have been. Leah weeps. She’s startled by Jan who has followed her. Jan looks at the ring – recognises it’s her mother’s– Jan decides their mother has returned for vengeance – it was Leah that killed her in childbirth…

    ACT 3 — FULL OUT HORROR

    Fight to the death

    Jan returns to the farmhouse with Leah. Jan conspiratorially explains to Beth why she now believes Jack’s horror story and that Michael is dead – their Mother has returned seeking vengeance and it must be because Leah was the one who killed her in childbirth: Beth asks why mother waited till now? Jan replies the nest egg that’s matured – it must be something to do with that, but whatever- if Mother wants to kill Leah they should save their skins by letting Leah be taken before anyone else gets hurt – with Beth’s tacit collusion, Jan sends Leah out into the scary wood to find Michael and get help for worsening Jeb…

    HORROR SITUATION: internal conflict in the group/being lured into danger/suspecting forces of nature

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    As Leah and the dog tread carefully through the threatening scary forest, Jan and Beth search for paperwork in Jeb’s office that might explain the nest egg’s arrival but eventually find the Mother’s death certificate – she didn’t die in childbirth, she was poisoned – who poisoned her? They hear rattling under the floorboards under Jeb…

    HORROR SITUATION: monster approaching

    REACTION – HIDE: Jan and Beth make no movement as they hear roots moving underneath the floor where they stand… and heading towards Jeb

    Hysteria

    … as the forest shimmers, hisses, creaks and groans with supernatural threat, Leah and the dog come upon the body of Michael, already being consumed by fungus and penetrated by roots…

    HORROR SITUATION: monster approaching, seeing another dead, rotting body

    REACTION – HIDE:

    on the shock of seeing Michaels grotesquely decayed face the forest floor explodes in a tsunami of roots and leaves heading straight for Leah – she’s knocked to the ground,

    HORROR SITUATION: face to face with the monster

    REACTION – ESCAPE:

    but the roots are all rushing past her – she’s hardly harmed – but she sees that all this malice is headed towards the farmhouse

    HORROR SITUATION: impending doom/face to face with the monster

    REACTION – FIGHT: Leah rushes to defend her family

    she starts running back the way she came, following in the wake of the roots that are gathering power…

    HORROR SITUATION: impending doom/face to face with the monster

    REACTION – FIGHT: Jack attacks the roots

    back at the farmhouse, the rattling of the roots below the floorboards and the crawling of the creepers growing on the outside walls, breaking the glass in the windows jolts Jeb back into consciousness – he calls out his wife’s name, he feels her coming. Jack is using an axe to chop roots as they come inside but there are too many –

    HORROR SITUATION: impending doom/face to face with the monster

    REACTION – FIGHT: Leah rushes to defend her family

    Jan screams that it’s Jeb the mother wants, not them, and tells Jack to help her carry Jeb outside to stop the house and its occupants being attacked.

    HORROR SITUATION: dilemma – sacrifice Jeb to save everybody.

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    But Beth won’t allow this to happen to her father – she struggles to protect him, and Jan attacks her pregnant sister.

    HORROR SITUATION: internal conflict in the group

    REACTION – FIGHT: Jan attacks Beth

    Jan barely notices the root wrapping itself around her ankle as she struggles with Beth – until the root abruptly pulls her off Beth and lifts her though the air as it suddenly pulls her outside, lethally smashing Jan against the walls as her body flies through the window.

    HORROR SITUATION: see another killed/out of the frying pan into the fire…!

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT: put out the fire.

    On the way, Jan’s flailing limbs knock over oil lamps which starts a fire inside. Beth and Jack immediately start to put out the fire, but as soon as Jack sees Beth has the fire almost under control, he seizes the opportunity of Beth’s distraction and picks up Jeb and carries him outside.

    HORROR SITUATION: internal conflict in the group

    REACTION – FIGHT: but the contraction stops Beth in her tracks

    Firefighting Beth roars in protest – but a contraction starts and she falls to her knees – now the fire instantly regains its strength …

    The thrilling escape from death

    … Leah arrives back at the farmhouse as Jack rushes out of the door carrying Jeb – Leah sees roots and creepers suddenly turn on Jack and Jeb – Jack is grabbed by the ankle, falls forwards and let’s go of Jeb – before they both hit the ground, a root reaches up, wraps around Jack’s neck and pulls his entire body upright and backwards – snapping Jack’s back and neck.

    HORROR SITUATION: seeing another killed

    REACTION – FIGHT – Leah will protect fallen Jeb

    Roots are converging on Jeb as he hits the ground, but a scream from Beth inside the house seems to give them pause.

    HORROR SITUATION: friend in danger/dilemma: who to save?

    REACTION – FIGHT: Leah rushes in to burning farmhouse

    Leah rushes past Jack’s spasming body into the burning farmhouse – inside it’s ablaze and Beth is screaming with contractions, but she’s not being attacked by the roots, Leah sees that the roots seem to be trying to put the fire out, sap hissing as they’re burned in the attempt – she tries to help labouring Beth out of the fire, but structural timbers collapse onto Beth’s legs – she is trapped – in spite of the efforts of the roots the fire is out of control – Leah cannot move Beth and she cannot breathe

    HORROR SITUATION: trapped/dilemma: who to save?

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    – Leah grabs a knife, c-sections the baby out of her dying sister and manages to get out of the house alive with the dripping new-born…

    Death returns to take one or more.

    … Leah goes to Jeb who’s still just alive, lying on the ground that’s still rippling with menacing roots around him…

    Resolution

    … dying Jeb whispers to Leah – we hear him, but Leah can’t make sense – his lips hardly move: When mother was alive she and father farmed the land organically: they had two daughters and the land could sustain the family. The father wanted a son. The mother knew they couldn’t afford another child, but the father persuaded her that a son would be an investment in the farm, not a drain of resources – production could increase by more than what the son would consume. But they had another daughter, Leah Against mother’s wishes, the father unilaterally decided the only way forward was to borrow money and turn the farm into an intensive, agrochemical concern. This turned the mother’s postnatal depression into suicidal despair. She poisoned herself with the chemicals she believed her husband was poisoning their farm. Jeb asks for forgiveness –

    HORROR SITUATION: see another killed

    REACTION – FIGHT: but it’s too late

    a root emerges from the ground and slides over his neck, before suddenly tightening and severing his head.

    HORROR SITUATION: the face of the monster

    REACTION – TRY TO SOLVE IT

    Leah strides away from the burning farmhouse with the baby and the dog. Even from a distance the flickering flames cast their light on the mother’s skeleton hanging in the roots of the tree. The dog barks as if possessed as it tries to block Leah’s path to her mother, but she will not be stopped – furious, she defiantly holds the baby up to her mother’s skull and dares to shout “Enough” – the dog stops barking but her mother’s unblinking eye sockets meet Leah’s gaze…

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  • Rachelle Storti

    Member
    March 24, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    Rachelle’s Horror Situation Track

    What I learned doing this assignment: The forums are a valuable tool, just to see how others have gone about completing the assignment when I feel a bit stuck. This one took a while, but I’m happy with the results.

    ACT 1

    Atmosphere of Evil established: A witness peers into a window and sees the Doctor performing a morbid surgery, grafting animal parts to a living human.

    Horror Situation: Possessed. The patient opens her eyes. She does not scream and is not afraid. She touches her tongue to her new fangs. Zoom out to see a tangle of snakes gnarled and swirling atop her head.

    Reaction – Escape: The witness tumbles backwards causing a commotion and is spotted by our Medusa.

    Horror Situation: The witness runs into the woods, but their escape route is cut off by a fall into a ground pit.

    Connect with the characters: A group of twenty-something-aged friends walk together, chatting, and we get to know them (Introvert/loner, Rebel/rule breaker, Complainer, and Lovers).

    The characters are warned not to do it: They find a hole in a chain link fence and crawl through. Furthermore, they find the witness half dead in the pit and rescue him. He is delirious, telling them to turn around.

    Denial of Horror: A storm is rolling in. Seeing the compound in the distance, they go to find help for the injured one and a potential warm bed for the night. We hear the scream of harpies in the distance which our characters write off as ravens.

    Safety taken away: They enter the compound and the floor immediately descends.

    Horror Situation: Spooky, the descent brings them to a basement full of tunnels and no way back up.

    Reaction – Try to solve it: They can’t go back from whence they came, they must explore the tunnels to find a way out.

    Horror Situation: Walking into a trap, as they try and figure out which way to go, metal bars fall, separating them and forcing them to explore the tunnels in limited pairs.

    Reaction – Mixed: Isolated pairs = The lovers, Loner & Complainer, Rebel & Injured party. Each group will react differently, but ultimately they will need to escape/find a way out.

    Monster: The nature of the beast: He lets loose a creature to greet each group at the end of their tunnel.

    Horror Situation: Escape route cut off, one tunnel leads to sand, another to water, another to the operating room. All of the groups will be pursued and one will be mentally/physically tortured upon entering the operating room.

    Reaction – Fight: Each group will fight to try and escape their unique situation.

    ACT 2 – THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Isolated/trapped/abducted: The fight to escape.

    Horror Situation: Mental/Physical torture – Rebel and Injured party tricked into the operating room, deceived by Medusa. The Injured one will be restrained while the Doctor takes the Rebel and performs a procedure to turn the Rebel into a mythical creature. The Lovers trapped in water with the Siren (vicious mermaid). The Loner and Complainer trapped in sand with the Kamaitachi (sickle-limbed weasel).

    Reaction: Fight

    Horror Situation: Mental/Physical torture – Operation continues. Lovers escape (kill the Siren), but are separated (water drains). The Loner has to choose to save the Complainer or save themself.

    Reaction: In the operating room the reaction is to take it, they don’t have another option. When the Lovers are separated they will be in denial, trying to get back to one another. Then they will try to solve the riddle of the maze to find each other. The Loner will hide, until the Kamaitachi is dismembering the Complainer, and he has a chance to escape.

    One of us killed: The Complainer by the Kamaitachi

    Horror Situation: The Loner is tormented by their decision to let the Complainer die. The Injured becomes more paranoid by what it sees during the operation. The Rebel has horns grafted to his skull. The Lovers are tormented by their isolation and inability to solve the mystery of the maze.

    Reaction: The Loner tries to hide/escape on his own. The Lovers try to solve it. The Injured hides within their mind.

    MIDPOINT – THE MONSTER IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT

    Full pursuit by the killer: Until now we have only seen his hands and eyes during operations. Now we see the full demonic form he has turned himself into. He finds the Loner.

    Horror Situation: The Loner has made it to the roof, but is face to face with the monster (out of the frying pan into the fire).

    Reaction – Escape: The Loner jumps, hits the ground, and is picked apart by harpies.

    Terrorized: One of the Lovers finds the Rebel recovering from surgery. The other finds the Injured. They try to help their friends escape.

    Horror Situation: Impending doom, running into dead ends. Spooky situations hearing the cries/roars of mythical beings.

    Reaction – Try to solve it: They keep going until they find each other and are a group of four, not knowing what happened to the others.

    ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

    Fight to the death: Four of them face the Cerberus (three headed dog) blocking their exit.

    Horror Situation: Spooky, facing Cerberus.

    Reaction – Fight

    Hysteria: The melee of fighting Cerberus.

    Horror Situation: Physically tortured by the three headed dog ripping them apart.

    Reaction: The injured hides. The other three fight, but one of the Lovers is killed.

    The thrilling escape from death: The survivors exit the building.

    Horror Situation: The injured one has been a liability the whole time. The other two run, dragging them along, while harpies pursue.

    Reaction – Escape

    Death returns to take one more: The doctor swoops down on wings and slashes the throat of the remaining lover.

    Horror Situation: Spooky, face to face with the monster.

    Reaction – Escape

    Resolution: The injured one escapes through the fence hole. The surgically altered Rebel turns back towards the compound.

    Horror Situation: Paranoia (Injured) and Possession (Rebel).

    Reaction – Try to solve it: The injured one escapes, but is delirious. No one will believe what they have seen. The Rebel isn’t sure why he is going back. He is intrigued by what the Doctor might help him become, and knows he will not be able to integrate back into society looking this way.

  • Andre

    Member
    May 9, 2023 at 4:58 pm

    Andre’s Horror Situation Track. (Still working on this one).

    What I learned doing this assignment…

    Step1: Brainstorm 20-50 potential horror situations.

    Step2: Determine which to choose based on my plot.

    Step3: Add a Reaction
    (denial, solve it, hide, escape, or fight) to the selected Horror situations.<div>

    A Horror Script consists of escalating scary situations, character reactions, and monster revelations.

    A Horror Situation
    is a set of circumstances that create a horror emotion in the Characters
    and Audience.

    Step 3 is where I am. Choosing denial, solving it, hiding it and escaping it or fighting it, are the choices I am currently outlining, as I unleash ALL H E L L onscreen.

    -Andre

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    • Andre

      Member
      December 4, 2023 at 2:30 pm

      Andre’s Horror Situation. (This is not perfect, by the time you read this, it will already be edited).

      What I learned doing this assignment is…that this takes time!

      1<sup>st</sup> Act: Horror
      situations in Prologue Opening, Inciting Incident, and Act 1 Turning Point.

      Atmosphere
      of Evil established – Denial… Character Reaction…

      Inside an urban building eerily similar to the white house, vacuum suction sounds of another abortion takes place.

      Lucifer and Satan were last on our world together during the time of their combined assault upon the Son of Man

      Meanwhile, the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer takes place.

      The One Hundred are superhuman, infused with the life plasma of Adam, from Adam & Eve; The 100- 50 males and 50 females, look human, but superhuman, corporeal life flesh infused with the Adamic life plasma. They are organized for service in ten (10) Autonomous Councils of ten (10) members each. When two or more of these ten councils meet in joint session, such liaison gatherings are presided over by Daligastia, the Devil’s Assistant.

      The One Hundred are personally immortal, or undying. The re-created bodies of this group are fully satisfied by a non-flesh diet. This was one of the considerations which determined their residence in a warm region abounding in fruits and nuts.

      The practice of subsisting on a non-flesh diet dates from the times of the Caligastia one hundred, for this custom spread near and far to affect the eating habits of many surrounding tribes, groups of origin in the once exclusively meat-eating evolutionary races.

      Horror
      Situation – Denial, Hide, Attempt to Escape:

      During this particular abortion, performed by our Antagonist Human-Male Asclepius, perfectly timed with an electrical storm, Particle Accelerator is engaged, timed with the fall of 1000 Bolts of Lightning! The entire STAFF (from 100 to 1000), of A WORLDRULER, The Fallen Planetary Prince, is now incorporeal, evil is born!

      Reaction
      – Escape:

      Within the womb, the fetus attempts to dodge the medical instruments honing in on killing it. There is no escape! Snip! Cut! Suction! Wash, rinse and repeat. Another successful “miscarriage”, albeit intentional aborting of human life.

      Each one of the chosen One-hundred (now One-Thousand) is from a different planet, and none are from Earth.

      Our main character deals with near death experience and the reality of being abandoned as a baby. All coalesced within the black lives movement and the failure of black men to their family unit, and the irresponsibility of black women in their choice in men, and their empathetic-less attitudes towards those they dislike.

      Horror
      Situation – Denial:

      After 500,000 years of freewill, humanity has proven its willful disdain for life. From wars, murders, and intentional abortion (not induced for medical purposes to save the life of the mother, but due to irresponsible careless “My body-My choice”; and aggrandized political slogans such as “abortion is between a woman, her doctor, and the government (hush-hush, but not the father of the fetus/baby)”. The freewill of wo-mankind has been under observation, since its creation.

      The Planetary Prince of Earth goes into darkness at the time of the Lucifer rebellion, thus precipitating the long confusion of the planet. The Planet is a Character in this story.

      Since his arrival, the Planetary Prince earthly civilization progresses in a fairly normal manner for almost 300,000 years.

      Connect
      with the Characters: Denial, Solve It, Fight

      In the likeness of Rose Mary’s Baby and The Omen, pure evil has found a way to co-exist, through the power structure of the US Presidency. There is no hiding, and there is no escaping. Deny all you want, abortions are performed on premises to merge dark matter with aborted fetus, concluding the perfection of the luciferin agenda to thwart humanity of its freewill.

      Indigo, our main protagonist has to make life adjustments by getting a part time job as security at the abortion clinic, while also attempting to become a screenwriter, all while attending out patient mental health to deal with his “stuff”.

      Denial
      of Horror: Denial, Solve It, Hide, Escape, or Fight

      Try to Fight or hide from the Fibonacci frequency, and annoying buzzing of flies and mosquitoes, used to induce insanity and sleep lethargy. (SoundEFX.)

      ASIA is the homeland of the human race. It was on a southern peninsula of this continent that the progenitors of humanity, Andon and Fonta were born; in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan.

      Both Lucifer and his assistant, The Devil “Caligastia” have been patiently instructed and lovingly warned, respecting their critical tendencies and the subtle development of their pride of self and its associated exaggeration of the feeling of self-importance. But all of these attempts to help have been misconstrued as unwarranted criticism and as unjustified interference with personal liberties.

      Safety
      taken away – Denial, Solve It, Hide, Escape:

      Lucifer flag being raised. The Lucifer emblem is a banner of white with one red circle, in the center of which a black solid circle appears

      Evil is real and has set this up over 500,000 years ago. Black sclera for eyes. Covid changing DNA from [ATCG 10 5 6 5] to [ATCCCG 10 5 6 6 6 5].

      In looking back over the long career of Caligastia, we find only one outstanding feature of his conduct that might have challenged attention; he was ultra-individualistic. He was inclined to take sides with almost every party of protest, and he was usually sympathetic with those who gave mile expression to implied criticism. In the course of this inspection, Satan informs Caligastia of Lucifer’s then proposed, “Declaration of Liberty,” and as we now know, the Prince agrees to betray the planet upon the announcement of the rebellion.

      Our main character receives feedback that his scriptwriting sucks, his girlfriend breaks up with him because he receives the vaxx shot, she only dates purebreds, he is now tainted in her eyes.

      Horror
      Situations – Denial, Solve It, Escape, Fight:

      Children’s songs eerily played backwards. Yes, fucking’ with your childhood!

      Unsuspecting father’s child is aborted, and the unrealized soul torments his experiences. He unknowingly lives with a loss, not knowing why.

      Why did she do it? Because she wasn’t 100% certain the child was his.

      The Case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer: The Charges…

      Charge 1

      Personality Pride.

      Charge 2:

      Default of Divine Plan resulting in Miscarriage of Adam and Eve, miscarriage of divine plan.

      Charge 3:

      Devil made me do it. The doctrine of a personal devil on Earth, though it had some foundation in the planetary presence of the traitorous and iniquitous Caligastia, was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its teachings that such a devil could influence the normal human mind against its free and natural choosing.

      Charge 4:

      Contempt for Truth.

      Charge 5:

      Default / Violation of Trust.

      Charge 6:

      Accelerate the process of social evolution, bypassing the divine plan.

      Charge 7:

      Individual Liberty…

      Charge 8:

      Ultra-individualistic. In looking back over the long career of Caligastia, we find only one outstanding feature of his conduct that might have challenged attention, he was ultra-individualistic.

      Charge 9:

      Planetary civilization progressed in a fairly normal manner for almost 300,000 years.

      Charge 10

      No one ever suggested rebellion to Lucifer. The idea of self-assertion in opposition to the will of Michael and to the plans of the Universal Father, as they are represented in Michael, had its origin in his own mind.

      Charge 11

      In the course of this inspection, Satan informed Caligastia of Lucifer’s then proposed, “Declaration of Liberty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to betray the planet upon the announcement of the rebellion.

      Charge 12

      Through evil and error, he (LUCIFER) embraced sin.

      Reaction
      – Solve It:

      Is there a soul connection with men and their life-force seed (sperm)? Our Male Protagonist does not know why he feels discomfort, because she never tells him, yet the affects are real to/him. Because his aborted child was tormented during the abortion. Why does a part of him feel torment?

      Monster
      – Denial, Solve It:

      Is the monster the woman aborting his child, to cover up her infidelity?

      Is the monster the abortion doctor and politician with the slogan, “abortion is between a woman, her doctor, and the government (hush-hush, but not the father)”?

      Is the monster Lucifer? Satan? The Devil? Together known as the Dragon?

      Is God the monster, for creating Creation?

      Horror
      Situation – Denial, Solve It, Hide, Escape, FEAR:

      Technology of particle accelerator used to harness dark energy for the purpose of merging with aborted fetus, while the world chants Black Lives Matter? Black lives referring to black souls, not people. The energy of destruction riots, theft, social chaos; to bring forth the Anti-Christ.

      Reaction
      – Denial, Solve it:

      Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the non-doable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in the system of Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation—freewill participation—in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively.

      In so doing, this onetime Sovereign of our system, set the temporal purpose of his own will directly thwarting the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures.

      The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania—a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania.

      You’re going to do what?

      <b align=”center”>2<sup>nd</sup> Act: Horror
      every 10 to 15 minutes.

      The
      Point of No Return

      Isolated/Trapped/Abducted
      – denial, solve it, escape:

      Tours of pregnant women (of twins and triplets and more) counted as 1; leaving without.

      DNA sequence manipulation. During an Electrical Storm, the Particle Accelerator (which is found to be housed within the abortion clinic), is be used to harness dark energy-matter, to be used to merge with the aborted fetuses, during the chanting of black lives matter, to give creation to soulless life-the antichrist.

      Nature elements-Electrical Storm, Wind, Shadow, Temperature, insects buzzing.

      Indigo, our main protagonist human, gets writing assignment to write erotic novels.

      Horror
      Situation – ultimate denial, try to solve it, try to hide, try to escape, or try
      to fight:

      Underground, almost as if hollowed out earth, or an impact zone, within the crooked halls beneath the city streets, fabricated is another entrance.

      Satan was allowed to make periodic visits to the apostate princes on the fallen worlds until another Son of God should be accepted by such apostate worlds, or until such time as the courts of Uversa should begin the adjudication of the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer.

      Double helix to triple helix.

      Reaction
      – denial, solve it, hide, escape, and fight:

      Social disruption, chaos, loss in confidence- hopeless despair.

      The fathers of the fetuses are being intentionally kept out of the decision making process as to whether or not their unborn baby is aborted or not. When not aborted, they are told she “miscarried” (intentionally though).

      Horror
      Situation – denial, solve it, hide, escape, or fight:

      Light absorbing matte skin finish. Self-shadow from another dimension. What if light and love were removed from the world, permanently? Eternal death of the souls on earth. Every birth, is evil not corporeal and not exactly incorporeal.

      Reaction
      – denial, solve it, hide:

      Catatonic Disbelief. The receivers. The Angel with a Broken Halo and Wings.

      Horror
      Situation – denial, solve it, escape:

      Evil empowered embodiment- High authority position in hierarchical society. Immunity from prosecution.

      “In God we trust”? The indebted/insolvent Monetary System. Employment. Paycheck. Pension. The insolvent, indebted, not backed by anything real with the exception of war-dollar. Representational in mockery, knowing the leaders do not follow the true laws of God. Which God do they trust? The God of war, theft, murder, debauchery etc. This is the God they will get.

      Character
      Death – solve it, fight:

      Annihilation of an Angel’s soul. Not mere death of a body, like human’s experience death through war; but the annihilation of a soul.

      Abandoned as an infant by the father, a story that correlates with Lucifer’s Unseen Father. Near death experience as teenager, a wound that reveals itself throughout the story.

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      <b align=”center”>3<sup>rd</sup> Act: Non-stop
      horror situations.

      Atmosphere
      of Evil established:

      “There was war in heaven; THAT War is being played out, here, on earth.

      But, this war in heaven was very terrible and very real. While displaying none of the barbarities so characteristic of physical warfare on the immature worlds, this conflict was far more deadly; material life is in jeopardy in material combat, but the war in heaven was fought in terms of life eternal.

      Horror
      Situation:

      Lucifer agenda is to get angel and human to deny God and then to praise Lucifer. Via Science, Lucifer has been able to abort the human mission once again, this time with DNA, science (electrical storm, BLM séance, rioting, Satan sauce, economic collapse all 2020-2022). Life eternal is the horror situation and the exchange for the sentience of black life anti-matter the Anti-Christ.

      Reaction-

      Trust no one. Humanity is not to be trusted.

      Isolated
      Situations

      Forces of Nature. – Denial, Hide and try to escape.

      Lucifers defense is earth was his responsibility and uplifting the backwards nature of humanity was his goal.

      The SAN (Sorry Ass Negro) the neglectful sperm donor of Indigo, our main human protagonist. Soundtrack includes old worn out negro spirituals. Creating babies and not taking care of them. Abandoning the women they impregnate. To be aligned with, The Unseen father.

      Pursued
      Situations

      Forced into a dangerous environment. -Try to Solve it, Try to escape with nowhere to run nor hide with undeniable Impending doom. Try to Solve it.

      With the DNA restructuring, weak humans will die off, and perfection has a chance, with time.

      Torture
      Situations

      Something inside our body. Denial, try to escape, Fighting only makes you weaker.

      The Electrical Storm, the Particle Accelerator is used to harness dark energy-matter. Merging with the aborted fetuses, during the chanting of black lives matter, giving creation to soulless life-the antichrist.

      With this breakthrough, Indigo, through mental health session, insight into his accident experience. Whose voice was that? Where does that memory come from? What happened during those moments of black-out? He receives an assignment to become an erotic novel writer.

      The SAN (Sorry Ass Negro) soundtrack includes old worn-out negro spirituals. Creating babies and not taking care of them. Abandoning the women they impregnate. To be aligned with, The Unseen father.

      Tormented
      Situations

      What God? Where is God? Boundless Hopelessness.

      The case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer…

      Paranoia
      Situations

      Unknown motive. Try to Solve it.

      The case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer…

      The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania—a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania.

      Spooky
      Situations

      Indigo’s writing takes form, well received by female audience. The allure of the horrific with the females audience takes shape. Who knew getting dicked down by the devil was a quite fantasy?

      Deceptive
      Situations

      Do not mix Good with Evil.

      Becomes very successful with his erotic novels that are turned into adult movies. Who knew that turning women on could be so suck-cessful!

      Connect
      with the Characters:

      Mind and morals are at a low level, and instead of beginning the task of effecting religious unity, they must begin all anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the simplest forms of religious belief.

      Instead of finding one language ready for adoption, they were confronted by the world-wide confusion of hundreds upon hundreds of local dialects.

      No Adam of the planetary service was ever set down on a more difficult world; the obstacles seemed insuperable and the problems beyond creature solution.

      Asclepius Our Male Antagonist-Abortion Doctor. Healer and “God” of medicine (reason for symbol Asclepius/Caduceus. Son Apollo.

      Was a demigod born to Apollo and Princess Coronis, a mortal woman from Thessaly, Greece. During her pregnancy, Coronis fell in love with another human named Ischy’s. Upon learning about their affair, Apollo sent his twin sister Artemis to burn Coronis at the stake.

      However, Apollo decided to save his unborn child from his mother’s burning womb. This event was said to have been the Caesarion sections in human history, earning Asclepius his name, which translates into ‘to cut open.’ He then gave the infant Asclepius to Chiron, a centaur known for his medicinal skills. Chiron raised Asclepius and taught him how to be a healer.

      Threatened with death by bolt of lightning, Asclepius performs abortions to fulfill his obligation of sending over fresh souls to save his own. Thus the importance of the electrical storm timed with the Particle Accelerator.

      The
      Characters are warned not to do it:

      Do not doubt the existence of God and do not pray to Lucifer as your God.

      Technically terminating the sinful and unjust Luciferin rebellion in the system of Satania. Adjudicating the blasphemous pretensions of Caligastia, the Devil, and Lucifer, fallen children of light.

      Denial
      of Horror:

      Lucifer’s soul is annihilated, but his success lives on through the anti-matter mergence with aborted fetus, altering of the human dna structure to 1056665 from [ATCG 10 5 6 5] thus becoming the US President- Anti-Christ, (and female). Atoning for the sorrow and confusion brought upon the planet earth by the devil, Caligastia, betrayal of trust and subsequent default of humanity.

      The new currency is digital devil dollars, to coincide with the Anti-Christ
      being the president of the USA. Allied with blood.

      -Andre

  • Radford White

    Member
    May 26, 2023 at 5:10 am

    <b data-pm-slice=”1 1 []” data-en-clipboard=”true”>What I learned from this assignment was to calm your stallions, not race off with glee but work within the model….Trust the model! PS keep the excess notes but come back to the model!

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    <b data-pm-slice=”1 1 []” data-en-clipboard=”true”>ACT 1 — SET UP FOR HORROR

    Atmosphere of Evil established

    Family goes to a modern art gallery and the mother and father are psychologically and physically tortured and killed leaving behind two orphaned children

    HORROR SITUATION: Mum & dad tortured and killed

    REACTION: The children run and hide & escape

    Connect with the characters

    10 years later the same exhibition and the Group of friends with the grown up children outside a different gallery at a nearby cafe, taking pics of their food, instagramming, TikTokking & messaging everyone, some laughter.

    HORROR SITUATION: Walking into a trap in a Gallery where the same painting is being exhibited

    REACTION: Denial of the spirit world

    Denial of Horror

    They all end up going inside and do some viewing and scope for paintings to throw soup on and that they wont get into any trouble.

    HORROR SITUATION: Lured into the horror

    REACTION: Denial of the spirit world

    Safety taken away

    The leader somehow disappears and they cant seem to find him and they panic a little stressed

    The characters are warned not to do it.

    One of the group, the artist warns the friends group that they should not deface other’s artwork and just get the hell out because he has a bad feeling about the place.

    HORROR: PARANOIA: a character refuses to take action

    REACTION: Leader denies Artists instincts

    Monster: The nature of the beast.

    The painting appears to look liquid, shimmering, attracting the attention of the group who go over to look and see the dead Mother and Father from the opening scene

    HORROR: Spooky: Environment changing around them

    REACTION: Denial of what theyre seeing thinking its a special effect

    ACT 2 — THE POINT OF NO RETURN

    Isolated / Trapped / Abducted

    The leader is trapped in a paintingthe friends are trapped in the gallery

    HORROR: Isolated – Trapped

    REACTION: Try to solve it

    One of us killed

    The Leader is killed and one of the friends at the same time for not forgiving

    HORROR: Torture – tortured physically

    REACTION: Denial – Escape

    MIDPOINT: The monster is worse than we thought! <<The WOKE FRIENDS ARE THE MONSTERS>>

    Full pursuit by the killer

    The spirit starts to pull each person into the painting one at a time

    HORROR: Spooky – sucked into a painting / environment changing / impending doom

    REACTION: some fight, some deny, some try to escape

    Terrorized

    Ultimatum given, confessions made, bonds and bridges destroyed bt friends

    HORROR: Tormented – friends in danger / Paranoia – internal conflict

    REACTION: Denial / Try to solve / Fight

    ACT 3 — FULL OUT HORROR

    Fight to the death

    Forced to watch their friends be physically & emotionally tortured

    HORROR: Torture – physical & mental

    REACTION: Escape / Fight / Denial / Try to solve

    Hysteria

    The friends are hysterical with physical pain and emotional pain

    HORROR: Torture – injured, debilitated, see another killed

    The thrilling escape from death

    One friend “accidentally forgives” another and released from the painting

    HORROR: Torture / Tormented

    REACTION: Escape

    Death returns to take one or more.

    The spirit places one of the friends in a “Force-like” chokehold and demands a confession but doesnt confess and dies

    HORROR: Torture – physically tortured

    REACTION: FIGHT

    Resolution

    The artist and the other friends see the lights change, people in the gallery – returned to normal and leave stunned and broken

    HORROR: paranoia – unknown motive

    REACTION: Try to solve it

  • Andre

    Member
    November 16, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    Andre’s Horror Situation.

    What I learned doing this assignment are listed below- Steps1-4.

    Step1: Brainstorm potential horror situations for my story.

    Objective: Build a big list of horror situations that could work for my movie. I want 2x-3x the amount of horror situations that I need. Then I will select the best ones for my plot.

    Note: For each of these, match it to my Concept. For example, “shackled” might be chained to a wall or tied to a chair or hung by the arms or hog-tied in a straight jacket, depending on what works for my story.

    Trigger List of Horror Situations are…

    A. Isolated Situations

    a. Lost.

    b. Trapped.

    c. Shackled.

    d. Kidnapped.

    e. Being lured into danger.

    f. Forces of Nature. – Denial, Hide and try to escape,

    g. The only one who sees the monster.

    B. Pursued Situations

    a. Attacked or Chased.

    b. Forced into a dangerous environment. -Try to Solve it, Try to escape with nowhere to run nor hide,

    c. Impending doom.- Denial, Try to Solve it,

    d. No escape or their escape route been cut off.

    e. Monster approaching.-Denial, Hide,

    f. Monster trying to get you.-Denial, try to escape, Fight.

    g. Out of the frying pan into the fire.- Try to Solve it, try to escape.

    C. Torture Situations

    a. Injured, wounded, or debilitated.-Too scared to Fight.

    b. See another killed. Fight,

    c. Something inside our body.-Denial, Try to Solve it, try to escape, Fighting only makes you weaker.

    d. Transformed into something else (possessed, zombie etc)- Try to Solve it,

    e. Physically tortured.

    f. Mentally tortured.

    D. Tormented Situations

    a. Possessed- Denial, Fight what?

    b. Tricked

    c. Dilemma: Who to save: Them or me? Or Person A versus Person B?-Try to Solve it,

    d. Friends in danger

    e. Another character loses it (hysterical).

    f. A character becomes a liability (physically).

    E. Paranoia Situations

    a. The group has been infiltrated.

    b. Suspecting someone else is possessed. -Denial, Try to Solve it,

    c. Not knowing who is possessed, because it is not possession. -Denial, Try to Solve it,

    d. Unknown motive.-Try to Solve it,

    e. Internal conflict in the group.

    f. Menacing Stranger.

    g. A character refuses to take action.

    F. Spooky Situations

    a. Slimed

    b. Doing something forbidden

    c. Fall through the floor

    d. Threatened

    e. Face to face with the monster- Denial, Try to Hide and Escape,

    f. Can not see (the monster, fog, being underwater), speak or yell, hear (too loud or too quiet)- Denial,

    g. Environment changing around you.- Denial, Try to Hide nowhere to Escape.

    G. Deceptive Situations

    a. Walking into a trap.

    b. Lured into the horror.- Denial, Try to Hide, nowhere to Escape,

    c. Helping a good person and being attacked

    d. Working with someone, then they become the evil one.

    Step2: Determine which
    to choose based on my plot.

    Read through my plot and fill in the Horror Situations that work for my story. Try to have a good mix of the seven types of situations listed to keep it interesting.

    · Concept- Rosemary’s Baby meets The Omen.

    · Our story begin with a 20-minute prologue. Beginning 200,000 years in the prologue, and ending with the Satan sauce of 2020, editing the human DNA from XXXXX to 1056665, with a meteorite.

    · The Luciferin Rebellion plays itself out, modern day.

    · The Bestowal mission upset by the planetary succession,

    · Whether We call it Abortion, or intentional miscarriage, human proclivity for death.

    · Awaiting the perfect electrical storm, the verdict results of Gabriel vs. Lucifer are in.

    · At stake, is Life-Eternal. not death, but annihilation of life-itself. Yes, like highlander; but real.

    Step3: Add a Reaction
    (denial, solve it, hide, escape, or fight) to the selected Horror situations,

    Now go back to each Horror Situation, and add a Character reaction. This doesn’t have to be the perfect reaction, but instead one that seems to work for the moment.

    A. Denial

    B. Try to solve it

    C. Hide

    D. Escape

    E. Fight

    Step4: Put Horror
    Situations/Reactions in the plot and label them.

    Once I have brainstormed Horror Situations, and Reactions that work, build them into my outline. Make sure I follow the example below and label them.

    ACT
    1

    Atmosphere
    of Evil established – Denial:

    Inside an urban building eerily similar to the white house.

    Audio- Abortion vacuum suction sounds.

    Visual- Abortion clinic.

    Female Antagonist perspective. She aborts more than one man’s fetus, which makes her the perfect incubator for evil to be born; the white picket fences of deceit and illusion of purity.

    Horror
    Situation – Denial, Hide, Attempt to Escape:

    During a particular abortion, timed with the electric storm, the Particle Accelerator is engaged with the fall of 1000 Bolts of Lightning! The entire STAFF of A WORLDRULER, The Fallen Planetary Prince, is now incorporeal, evil is born.

    Reaction
    – Escape:

    There is no escape!

    Horror
    Situation – Denial:

    After 500,000 years of freewill, humanity has proven its willful disdain for life. From wars, murders, and intentional abortion (not induced for medical purposes to save the life of the mother, but due to irresponsible careless my body-my choice; an abortion is performed to merge dark matter with an aborted fetus-thus concluding the perfection of the luciferin agenda to thwart humanity of its freewill.

    In the likeness of Rose Mary’s Baby and The Omen, pure evil has found a way to exist-through the power structure of mankind’s own creation-the us presidency. Connect with the Characters:

    Denial
    of Horror:

    Fear.

    Fibonacci frequency to induce insanity and sleep lethargy.

    Miscarriage of Andon and Fonta. ASIA is the homeland of the human race.

    It was on a southern peninsula of this continent that Andon and Fonta were born; in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan, their descendant Badonan founded a primitive center of culture that persisted for over one-half million years.

    Evil is real and has set this up over 500,000 years ago-Lucifer, Satan,The Devil and their Associates.

    Safety
    taken away – denial, solve it, hide, escape:

    Lucifer flag being raised.

    Black sclera for eyes.

    Covid changing DNA from double helix to triple helix 1056665.

    Horror
    Situations – denial, solve it, escape, fight:

    Children’s songs played in reverse-backwards, to give eerie feel. Yup, fucking with your childhood!

    Unsuspecting father’s child is aborted, and the unrealized soul torments his experiences. He unknowingly lives with a loss, not knowing why.

    Why did she do it? Because she wasn’t 100% certain the child was his.

    Reaction
    – Denial, Anger:

    Is there a soul connection with men and their sperm? He doesn’t know, because she never tells him, yet the affects are real to/him. Why does a part of him feel torment? Because his aborted child was tormented during the abortion.

    Monster
    – denial, solve it, fight:

    Is the monster the woman aborting his child, to cover up her infidelity?

    Is the monster the abortion doctor and politician with the slogan, abortion is between a woman, her doctor, and the government?

    Is the monster Lucifer? Satan? The Devil? Together known as the Dragon?

    Horror
    Situation – denial, solve it, hide, escape, FEAR:

    Technology of particle accelerator being used to harness dark energy for the purpose of merging with aborted fetus, while the world chants Black Lives Matter? Black lives referring to black souls, not people. The energy of destruction riots, theft, social chaos; as above so below.

    And for the purpose in using mankind’s freewill of death, miscarriage, disruption to bring forth the Anti-Christ.

    Reaction
    – Denial, Solve it:

    You’re going to do what?

    ACT
    2 – The Point of No Return

    Isolated/Trapped/Abducted
    – denial,
    solve it, escape:

    DNA sequence manipulation.

    Nature elements-Electric Storm, Wind, Shadow, Temperature.

    Horror
    Situation – ultimate denial, try to solve it, try to hide, try to escape, or try
    to fight:

    Double helix to triple helix.

    Reaction
    – denial,
    solve it, hide, escape, and fight:

    Social disruption, chaos, loss in confidence- hopeless despair.

    Horror
    Situation – denial, solve it, hide, escape, or fight:

    Light absorbing matte skin finish. Self-shadow from another dimension.

    Reaction – denial,
    solve it, hide:

    Catatonic Disbelief.

    Horror
    Situation – denial, solve it, escape:

    Empowered embodiment- ultimate evil superpower-USSC. Employment. Paycheck. Pension. High authority position in hierarchical society. Immunity from prosecution.

    Character
    Death – solve
    it, fight:

    Annihilation of an Angel’s soul. Not mere death of a body, like human’s experience death through war; but the annihilation of a soul.

    -Andre.

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