[D. Renee]

Dianna’s Terrifying Monster

I learned that crafting my monster can lead to fleshing out part of my story and helps get over some blocks I might have had.

Their Terror: Demon collecting souls by terrorizing and killing it’s victims, mesmerizes them with Christmas joy before attacking and to keep you trapped in the house, kills you with Christmas items inside the house, drinks your blood and rips out your soul, takes full control of the environment – you’re in it’s domain once in the house.

Their Mystery: How do we satisfy the demon’s blood lust?

Their Fear Provoking Appearance: Appears as they did on the Christmas they committed the massacre and sacrificed themself, flashes of the demon come through as it kills. It is a specter of black smoke with claws and fangs.

Their Rules: Traps people in the house, uses Christmas icons to cover the danger you are in while it drains your blood or murders you with the icons, tests your purity by asking what you wanted for Christmas as a child.

Their Mythology: Demon does not know it is set to collect souls for eternity, thinks the blood of humans will restore it to human form so it can escape the house – every deal with the devil is not what it seems…

[D. Renee]

I learned that there are a lot of moving parts to a horror film and they are even in movies that I wouldn’t consider conventional.

Title / Concept: The Lodge / Cult terror
Terrorize The Characters: two kids have to spend a few days with their fathers girlfriend who survived a suicide cult and they blame for their own mother’s suicide because she stole their father.
Isolation: lodge in the mountains surrounded by snow. All the electric goes out and food disappears.
Death: literally begin to think they died. Kid has a dream they died from a faulty gas heater, find a picture that says “in living memory”, find a paper with their obituary, the dog dies in the freezing snow (first hint they’re not dead), sea monkeys die, gf goes psychotic w/out her meds, Gf burns her knees on hot logs, gf kills father, gf has her and the kids commit suicide like the cult she was in.
Monster/Villain: unknown, at first think someone is messing with them, then start to think they are dead (I suspect the son has set the whole thing up to chase away the girlfriend), turns out the kids are torturing her, they push too far and she snaps – killing them all.
High Tension: things keep happening and they don’t know why, kids blame the girlfriend for their mother’s suicide, electricity won’t work, food disappears, keep saying the gf has to repent for her sins, gf is off her meds, gf keeps having flashbacks to the cult, gf starts acting out the cult torture she was inflicted with
Departure from Reality: think they died, random stuff keeps happening, the dollhouse keeps showing what is going to happen, the son hangs himself to prove they can’t die cause they’re in purgatory.
Moral Statement: Don’t be a home wrecker, don’t mentally torment a psychotic, don’t leave your kids with a woman who’s your former mental patient.

3. Anything else you’d like to say about what made this movie a great horror film? It was too slow for me but I liked the twist and that they all died since you think the dad is going to save the day and instead, he dies.

4. With your concept, fill in each of these Conventions for your story.

Concept: haunting bad guys
Terrorize The Characters: Drug dealers have to enter a known haunted house to retrieve their goods, but don’t know the demon has gotten into their stash.
Isolation: Trapped inside the haunted house on Christmas.
Death: Achilies slashed from under bed, walls coming to life and eating people, demon making dinner out of someone.
Monster/Villain: A murderous, coked-up demon.
High Tension: Keep getting close to the drugs but losing them last minute, trapped, childhood nightmares come to life.
Departure from Reality: Ghosts who get high off drugs.
Moral Statement: Don’t do drugs or go into creepy houses.

[D. Renee]

A. Monster: Horace

B. Terror: Once you enter, you do not leave

C. Environment: Haunted House – used for rituals in the early 1900’s

D. Victims: Drug dealers retrieving lost cocaine

Fear of the dark
Fear of the unseen
Fear of creatures — spiders, snakes, etc.
Fear of pain or torture
Fear of death
Fear of being alone
Fear of going insane

Reuniting for Christmas, friends gather at their old hang spot and stumble upon a backpack full of cocaine. They break inside the town’s haunted house so they can party. While inside, they snort coke with the demon that inhabits it, causing all hell to break loose when the owners of the cocaine come looking for it.

[D. Renee]

Hi!

My name is Dianna Renée.

I’ve written a bunch of features, but only a few I consider polished (and short scripts that I have filmed – one is in festivals as we speak).

I hope to get a new idea I had written and polished while being scary as hell (with some humor…).

Nothing special, I’m just an actress and filmmaker who ferments my own beverages – but, I do have the world’s most gorgeous cats.

[D. Renee]

Dianna Renée

I agree to the terms of this release form.

[D. Renee]

nvm

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  D. Renee.

[D. Renee]

Where are we supposed to post the pre-assignment?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  D. Renee.