[Toni Truong]

Bodies Bodies Bodies horror convention (Paramount+)

What I learned doing this assignment is how a horror film needs these four elements to make it an emotionally horrifying and scary experience for me.

– Concept: Young friends and one older man party at a remote mansion belonging to one of the kids, David. They drink and do drugs while waiting for the incoming hurricane. But dead bodies turn up once the storm hits.
– Terrorize The Characters: Someone is killing people in the house. The first murder is David who bleeds to death from a knife slash to his neck.
– Isolation: Very remote mansion in the woods becomes more isolated when a hurricane cuts off power.
– Death: Someone is killing everyone at the mansion, one by one
– Monster/Villain: Each person at the party could be the monster because of how quickly everyone started blaming each other and making assumptions about situations.
– High Tension: Can't trust anyone, even your friends. Anyone could be the killer.
– Departure from Reality: What I liked about the film is that it felt rooted in a heightened reality. It’s a bit of a whodunnit film, because the killer is one of the people at the house, but who? The departure from reality would be how quickly the dead bodies mount over the course of this one night.
– Moral Statement: The only monsters are us, when we quickly devolve to mistrust.
– Anything else you’d like to say about what made this movie a great horror film? I loved that there wasn't a supernatural monster. The monsters were each person when they started to mistrust and blame each other for murders.
– My Concept: Scared Straight – queer teens sent to a gay conversion camp to de-queer their identity
– The Terror: Forced psychological de-programming that strips the kids of any life or vibrancy
– Isolation: remote wilderness camp
– Death: Kids turn up dead
– Monster/Villian: Homophobic adults
– High Tension: Not only do the kids have to escape from murderous adults—they must escape from de-queered kids who turn against them
– Departure From Reality: A wilderness camp for teens constructed solely to break down and torture queer teens
– Moral Statement: Being brave is living your true identity – not conforming to cultural expectations of assimilation

[Toni Truong]

Hi, I’m Toni and I’ve only written scenes from ideas. I haven’t written a full script. I have a concept for a horror idea but don’t know how to make the “monster” terrifying. I look forward to learning how to make my idea scary and make the story compelling. I love grocery stores and trying out new recipes. If I’m trying a recipe for the first time, I’m vigilant about getting every single ingredient. My curse (or gift) is that one store never seems to have all I need so I have to go to three — worth it every time.

[Toni Truong]

Toni Truong (Toni Tru)

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