New Ideas

 So... I came up with a great scene for Personal Demons 3... a great creepy scene that will, hopefully, be a memorable character introduction. I'm hoping on the level of RoboCop's reveal in the first film and the slow, gory entrance of lacerated & pierced Julie in Return of the Living Dead 3.

At any rate, I've also outlined all of the jokes and scenes I want to include in my comedy script, Muscles & Wine. Now I just need to organically mix them into the plot. Oh, and find time to write the damn thing.

I also came up with a really great idea fort a werewolf movie while watching this Danish zombie movie from 2016 called What We Become. I've already written 2 werewolf scripts already... and not a single vampire script... and only a short film (like a 5-10 page script) about zombies. 

What are my favorite monsters?

I suppose...

1.) Man

2.) Demons

3.) Werewolves

4.) Zombies

5.) Vampires

6.) Unnamed monsters (Lovecraft, etc.)

7.) Aliens

8.) Crazed Machines / Technology

9.) Ghosts

10.) The General Supernatural

Not necessarily in that order (in terms of preference).

But I would say numbers 2, 3 and 6 & 10 are my strongest loves.

Speaking of which, the more and more I watch special features with interviews with the cast and crew, the crew (especially the actresses) seem immensely interested in the themes at work within a certain project. Don't get me wrong: I get super analytical into the allegory, symbolism and socio-political subtext of everything I write (only I'm sure I'm pretentious and obvious about it... Man, I love George Romero... he was actually good at all that stuff), and analyzing literature and film... and the literature of film (screenplays) is something I've dedicated more than two decades of my life to...  but I've never actually sat down and wrote out what the themes of my screenplays are.

I think I should start doing that.

I think I should go back and write out the themes for older scripts that have already been completed (but perhaps not revised). Scripts I love, scripts I hate. Just to show I make no distinction...

And with that thinly-veield Calude Rains quote...