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Horror Elements 2011
ELEMENTS OF A HORROR:
CHARACTERS:
Hottie who keeps wandering off
Jock
SETTING:
Old Castle
Old Mansion
MONSTERS and LIFE:
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Elements of a Horror Movie 2011
Girl - scared
Cocky Boy who really is scared
Ghost or Demon or like being that is singular or a group..
Old occupant of the house who died.
Possessed by a demon or ghost.
Possessed by a spirit or force.
Ghost
Vampire
Werewolf
Fairy (normally an Evil one)
Satan or some being that seems to be like satan.
Horror movies often are at some remote location.
Some sort of build up, horror story is often the lead in.
People break up into groups or are separated is almost a staple.
Hot girls that become scared are also a staple.
Jock male who seems to think he is bad but is not.
Mike Adams
1998
Thats a good idea or like.. Why did he invite them there? Mystery? Reading of the Will or alien/abduction/possession?
Local spirits not liking the imports?
Dead baby, aborted or murdered or miscarriage?
Lost special needs kid, like the younger brother/sister of the then king, who is a lost soul?
Ban Shee (family guardian/ancestor/one that screams at the death of the clan leader/laird/chieftain? that has come over as well? Ghosts of those dead in the old dungeon? Buried alive or worse?
Millionare did not die, he just changed bodies and is now ...
I love the idea of the evil demons looking like someones friends, but the bad spirits moved from their evil looking bodies and the friends who bodies were stolen, are now in the demons?
Mike
Yes some the loss of a sense is no real loss, might even be helpful or ... Hard to be effected by a demons visual effect, if you cant see the demons face?
Captain Hook, how he lost his hand.. Whale/shark or like? Or bad accident when younger or what?
Does it always mean they are bad people? In some myths, those who was perfect, with all limbs and hands/feet, are godly, but if you lose a hand or arm or like your not godly and maybe even outcast, and not for the modern reason of cut off hand cause of stealing and having to use your whiping hand to eat with.
Scott from X-men, has glasses, to block out his super power, there is others where an eye patch hides something or yes, its just mundane loss of an eye, puss and all..
Mike
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wise...@hotmail.comThat's something very interesting to think about actually. I've certainly had characters that are physically or mentally handicapped in one way or another. Veterans who had lost limbs in a conflict for example. One of the main characters for one of my as of yet unpublished novels is such a character, who lost an arm in a conflict fifteen years prior to the events of the main story. I suppose that is a trope of sort yes?
In games I've seen a host of one-eyed characters, cause eye-patches are cool. One person in a Supernatural Horror game I played in once played a paraplegic antiquarian. The game was set in the 1920's, so it did prove to be an interesting limitation for a PC to have.
Thinking on Literature and such in general I do think there are, if not 'stock' characters in terms of physical handicap, than certainly sort of 'themes' when having a physical deformity or handicap or what have you is a characteristic, rather than say the focus of the narrative. Demonstration of a previous physical history is one such obvious trait. Like the veteran mentioned above, it combines suggesting 'loss' but also 'this is some-one who has put themselves in danger in the past'.
I can think of a few villains in that mold, and very often they are, like say Captain Hook, villains with a certain degree of cerebralness, where their physical 'otherness' perhaps represents, but doesn't necessarily define their villainy.
On a seperate note there is also the use of physical handicap in juxtaposition; The Blind Swordsmen, the Blind Psychic, the paraplegic with immense mental or even physical abilities.
I'll think on this more actually.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Roderick Edwards - Vice President - Dark Tavern Press, Inc. <
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Hi Mike,
1998?
Well, for a locale, how about a dead millionaire’s castle. Even if it’s set in the US, it could be that the millionaire had it shipped from Scotland brick by brick and took years to build. In fact, that’s better. The spirits that haunted the castle became angry and took it out the Americans. There could have been several deaths during the “cursed” construction. Then, months after moving in, the wealthy millionaire died of a heart attack, even though he was in good health.
Rod Edwards
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Horror and Dark Fantasy/Science Fiction:
Fangoria.com and submissions?
What street, and homeless and like people see that many of us do not?
Cab drivers and like as well?
Lost/Missing people, and what is seen?
Horror?
Mystery?
What else?
What goes on after the sun goes down, and especially after the bars ands like close or the places you do not see in the darkness and all?
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Small town, sheriff and what he/she has to deal with, or they are the thing you have to deal with? Horror normal, or super natural or super-science or aliens or what?
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Geek Gone Wild - Horror
Jan 2020
I like that one Denise.. other one I have been working on, is the geek that goes wild in the woods, due to being cast off from people, and in the process, makes friends with the local animals and more, and in the end, has to deal with such things as serial killers, super naturals, or just odd things.. one is the old cabin, that seems to be inhabited with an old war veteran and the things he is dealing with.. be it nutty tourists, or local animals/spirits or just criminal elements or space aliens smuggling things..
The Toolmaker or the Droid Maker? Who is the driving force of the droids? Zardoz powerful scientists, or aliens or super natural spirits or ...
On idea is he was contacts by aliens coming to earth for various reasons.
- Tourism
- Exploration
- Invasion
- Sample Collection - See Story of Juan and Amy?
- Zardoz or like story, where the rulers or ones who are in a secret facilty/hidden facility are needing to get out and do things? Collecting food and connecting with lost families?
He is to sober? recovering from drugs to include alcohol?
Severe PTSD or like condition, that makes living with "normal" people hard to achieve.
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Droid Horror:
Hehe. I do not mean he was an android, just that the idea if a human in cryo waking up in an android or mutant or anthro world is cool. I was just sayin that they woke him up cause they needed his skills.
But a man out of time is an interesting story idea.
On the cab driver part, where she wants sex, is not where my interests lie so I can't comment much on that.
She collects samples for use by her fellow Juan.
Birth/breeding and what else? Medicine or using the female looking droid as an artificial womb?
But "she" seems to want a baby for her own purposes or what?
She either using normal sperm/egg, or modified sperm/egg, cloning and like, or sadly does not understand she can not just make a human?
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Droids and horror?
Droids and the Borg? and why and is it so scary?
social commentary on how people are becoming?
congress, white house and pentagon? the vampires or taken over by them? how expressed in the modern age?
character development
- chapman but she is Latina? or from a latin area? and how does it come out and expressed in the showing?
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On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 1:46:04 AM EDT, Abrigon <
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Possible. I had him as the frozen survivor of his crew but yes, yes waking in an android body, likely for a good reason. Droids can live in a much more extreme environment. The cab driver has wandered into another story of mine, to a degree. She want a baby, or thinks she does?
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:26 PM arcturusfelire <
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I like it. The idea of waking up to find yourself in a robot or mutant or anthro populated location is interesting. Its campaign worthy.
I personally would want the human to have some sort of placement of authority, not so much that everyone obeys him but more that his skills are needed, like if he is recognized as the perfect investigator.
But yeah, this is definitely a very interesting campaign idea.
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On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 03:16:27 PM EDT, Abrigon <
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Been working on an adventure where a crew member wakes up, having been frozen, he is not sure where he is at, the rest of the crew is deal or not available.
The world he has landed on and woken up on, is a mining colony, so far seems to be nothing but droids, Bender being one of them.
But he does find a cab driver that seems to be human female, but in reality it is a former sex droid from the days when this town was a mining town/stop off point for human miner and like.
Mike
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