Horton-Scorton
Bluelighter
I had an idea about a zombie film tonight, so it's a new and probably significantly underdeveloped idea. I think the basic plot significantly breaks from zombie movie cliches in several ways. I guess it's kind of an experimental zombie film. I might can the idea in a couple days, or I might develop up it into a script or novella. I'm not generally a fan of horror films, so I don't know why I had this idea (amphetamines). Read this despite its length, then criticize it, yo. Please criticize the ideas, not the actual language I use, because this is just the bare idea with no actual flesh or style.
First, the film takes place in the future, most likely in the United States. An unspecified time. I want the future to be portrayed in quite a different way from how it's usually portrayed (as technologically advanced, etc.) I want culture to be based on pleasure and particularly sex. The US has gone the way of ancient Rome. Pharmacies design drugs that give intense, long-lasting orgasms, and it's common for people to participate in hedonistic, perverted orgies. Use your imagination. Religion is nearly gone, but one church with a particularly vocal membership claims that the hedonistic ways of society will spell their doom. I think psychiatrists will classify the religious as insane because they don't live in the pursuit of extreme pleasure. It won't be an Orwellian government. The government will be corrupt but shaky and not extremely powerful. So, the development of this vision of the future will precede the actual introduction of zombies.
I want the film to take place in three sections (which, I guess, is uncommon in horror films). Each will be roughly 40 minutes and concern the same future but focus on different characters, with the entire film lasting 2 hours.
The first chapter will introduce the son of the head preacher at the most hated church in the country, who claims that the people will pay for their sins. Before zombies even enter the picture, the son (who's maybe 19), will rebel against his father and enter the sexual society he has been protected from. He participates in all the bizarre sexual acts most others do and finds a girlfriend. Around this time, reports of the first known zombies begin to surface. The problem spreads rapidly. A horde of zombies will enter the church and kill most of the members, including the main character's father. After this, the church stands all but abandoned. After his father's death, the main character and his girlfriend both question their hedonistic society. They drive across the country, discussing how they want to live their lives, concerned about this more than they're concerned about surviving. Eventually, the main character decides that no just God would allow his father to be killed that way, and his girlfriend decides that she's been living a poor life, and she wants to find religion. They decide to part.
The second chapter will be several months later. The zombie problem is at its peak. This chapter concerns a man who is the extreme result of his hedonistic society. He is sexually perverse to a higher degree than most of the other members of society, and he goes as far as to incorporate necrophilia and murder into his routine. Basically, he's a sociopath. He actually is extremely pleased by the zombie situation. He makes a habit of capturing zombies and performing sexual acts on them after getting them in bondage, of course. Use your imagination. He never questions his actions. Towards the end of this sequence, the zombie problem will actually start to dissipate. Zombies will slowly become more sluggish until they're entirely inanimate. It's a gradual process. The character in this chapter becomes disappointed when the zombies all "die", but he ends up meeting the girlfriend of the character from the first chapter, pretending to be religious. It will imply that he desires to murder her due to his addiction to violent sex.
The third chapter will focus on a scientist who is studying the zombie phenomenon, about a month after the zombies became inanimate. He makes little progress. The whole zombie experience has shaken him however, and he now believes in a God and finds parallels between the behavior of his culture and Sodom and Gomorra. He visits the abandoned church mentioned earlier, hoping to have a religious experience, and he is surprised to find a single zombie prowling inside the church, several weeks after governments declared the problem officially over. He leaves and returns to the church with drugs that temporarily paralyze the zombie. He attempts numerous experiments with the single zombie in his laboratory, still without success. He decides there is no rational explanation for the phenomenon and that this really must be an act of God. He paralyzes the zombie and takes it back to the church where he found it. There he prays to God, saying that he will leave his own fate to God and begs God to spare him. The zombie slowly comes out of paralysis and begins to approach the scientist. Before it shows the scientist's fate, the film switches to the sociopath from the second chapter. He is with the girl he met at the end of chap 2, and he tells her to come with him to the abandoned church. She thinks it is because he is religious, but he truly desires to rape and murder her in the infamous church, for sensory excitement. It then switches to the character from chap 1, who becomes disillusioned with his secular life and goes back to the church where his father died in an attempt to save his own soul. The sociopath with his girl enter the church, where the scientist's almost-entirely eaten corpse lays in a pool of blood. The sociopath becomes extremely excited by this scene, and he quickly withdraws a gun and kills the girl. He goes in to examine the corpse, and the single zombie, which he doesn't see, emerges behind him and bites a chunk out of his neck. He falls over and bleeds to death. Finally, the character from chap 1 arrives at the church, and is obviously surprised by the violent scene. After a bit, the zombie emerges. The character begins to pray, hysterically. Eventually he realizes the zombie is his own father,who had been the head preacher at the church, and whose face is so mutilated his son couldn't recognize him. Father? the character asks, and his father's zombie almost automatically gazes towards the ceiling, suggesting that he is looking towards God. The character collapses to his knees, begins to pray, and cries uncontrollably. The zombie spares him for some reason, and leaves the church. The last shot is the main character praying, perhaps with some religious, Baroque organ music playing in the background, which would ideally be the first music to play in the entire film. The fate of society, as well as many other things, is left ambiguous.
First, the film takes place in the future, most likely in the United States. An unspecified time. I want the future to be portrayed in quite a different way from how it's usually portrayed (as technologically advanced, etc.) I want culture to be based on pleasure and particularly sex. The US has gone the way of ancient Rome. Pharmacies design drugs that give intense, long-lasting orgasms, and it's common for people to participate in hedonistic, perverted orgies. Use your imagination. Religion is nearly gone, but one church with a particularly vocal membership claims that the hedonistic ways of society will spell their doom. I think psychiatrists will classify the religious as insane because they don't live in the pursuit of extreme pleasure. It won't be an Orwellian government. The government will be corrupt but shaky and not extremely powerful. So, the development of this vision of the future will precede the actual introduction of zombies.
I want the film to take place in three sections (which, I guess, is uncommon in horror films). Each will be roughly 40 minutes and concern the same future but focus on different characters, with the entire film lasting 2 hours.
The first chapter will introduce the son of the head preacher at the most hated church in the country, who claims that the people will pay for their sins. Before zombies even enter the picture, the son (who's maybe 19), will rebel against his father and enter the sexual society he has been protected from. He participates in all the bizarre sexual acts most others do and finds a girlfriend. Around this time, reports of the first known zombies begin to surface. The problem spreads rapidly. A horde of zombies will enter the church and kill most of the members, including the main character's father. After this, the church stands all but abandoned. After his father's death, the main character and his girlfriend both question their hedonistic society. They drive across the country, discussing how they want to live their lives, concerned about this more than they're concerned about surviving. Eventually, the main character decides that no just God would allow his father to be killed that way, and his girlfriend decides that she's been living a poor life, and she wants to find religion. They decide to part.
The second chapter will be several months later. The zombie problem is at its peak. This chapter concerns a man who is the extreme result of his hedonistic society. He is sexually perverse to a higher degree than most of the other members of society, and he goes as far as to incorporate necrophilia and murder into his routine. Basically, he's a sociopath. He actually is extremely pleased by the zombie situation. He makes a habit of capturing zombies and performing sexual acts on them after getting them in bondage, of course. Use your imagination. He never questions his actions. Towards the end of this sequence, the zombie problem will actually start to dissipate. Zombies will slowly become more sluggish until they're entirely inanimate. It's a gradual process. The character in this chapter becomes disappointed when the zombies all "die", but he ends up meeting the girlfriend of the character from the first chapter, pretending to be religious. It will imply that he desires to murder her due to his addiction to violent sex.
The third chapter will focus on a scientist who is studying the zombie phenomenon, about a month after the zombies became inanimate. He makes little progress. The whole zombie experience has shaken him however, and he now believes in a God and finds parallels between the behavior of his culture and Sodom and Gomorra. He visits the abandoned church mentioned earlier, hoping to have a religious experience, and he is surprised to find a single zombie prowling inside the church, several weeks after governments declared the problem officially over. He leaves and returns to the church with drugs that temporarily paralyze the zombie. He attempts numerous experiments with the single zombie in his laboratory, still without success. He decides there is no rational explanation for the phenomenon and that this really must be an act of God. He paralyzes the zombie and takes it back to the church where he found it. There he prays to God, saying that he will leave his own fate to God and begs God to spare him. The zombie slowly comes out of paralysis and begins to approach the scientist. Before it shows the scientist's fate, the film switches to the sociopath from the second chapter. He is with the girl he met at the end of chap 2, and he tells her to come with him to the abandoned church. She thinks it is because he is religious, but he truly desires to rape and murder her in the infamous church, for sensory excitement. It then switches to the character from chap 1, who becomes disillusioned with his secular life and goes back to the church where his father died in an attempt to save his own soul. The sociopath with his girl enter the church, where the scientist's almost-entirely eaten corpse lays in a pool of blood. The sociopath becomes extremely excited by this scene, and he quickly withdraws a gun and kills the girl. He goes in to examine the corpse, and the single zombie, which he doesn't see, emerges behind him and bites a chunk out of his neck. He falls over and bleeds to death. Finally, the character from chap 1 arrives at the church, and is obviously surprised by the violent scene. After a bit, the zombie emerges. The character begins to pray, hysterically. Eventually he realizes the zombie is his own father,who had been the head preacher at the church, and whose face is so mutilated his son couldn't recognize him. Father? the character asks, and his father's zombie almost automatically gazes towards the ceiling, suggesting that he is looking towards God. The character collapses to his knees, begins to pray, and cries uncontrollably. The zombie spares him for some reason, and leaves the church. The last shot is the main character praying, perhaps with some religious, Baroque organ music playing in the background, which would ideally be the first music to play in the entire film. The fate of society, as well as many other things, is left ambiguous.
