B-MOVIE PITCHES!!!

[Flick James]

We B-movie fanatics, at least in our collective consciousness, know a thing or two about how a good bad movie should look. There is likely even some film-making talent there as well. It has been suggested through some recent threads that the brain pool be tapped to make a low-budget b piece. Most recently, I was sort of tasked with putting together a thread with the purpose of getting preliminary script concepts together for consideration. So here’s the thread. Please read carefully.

We’re going with a typical movie pitch. If you have an idea for a script, whether fleshed-out or just a basic idea that you would like to throw into the pool, then reply with that pitch in 25 words or less. Keep in mind that this is just very broad strokes, just a basic premise. You don’t even necessarily have to end up being the script writer. Think of it as the quick synopsis you would read on a cable or satellite guide. Now, it is not uncommon for movie pitches to run over 25 words, so if you do, no big deal, just do you best.

Important note: This has to be a very low-budget project for it to have a chance to work, so keep that in mind with your pitches.

As soon as there is a good number of pitches, I’m going to put them into a poll to get them narrowed down via the collective wisdom of the forum members.

This is still experimental at this point, but I think it will be fun to at least see how far this can go. Let the pitches begin.

[Skull]

Pitch 1


The caretaker of a "Body Farm" must destroy the Goul that's eating all the corpse.

[Skull]

Pitch 2

A cheating henchman is forced to run into the zombie infested woods with handcuffs.

[Skull]

Pitch 3

Inspired by a true story ~ A cult leader on a cruise ship with hippy slaves searching for alien lifeforms and finds one in the Bermuda Triangle.

[Skull]

Pitch 4

Avid b-movie fanatic becomes serial killer upon getting fed up with remake after remake. Starts going after the filmmakers responsible.


(Credit goes to Flick James)

[Skull]

Pitch 5

The hairs on a person's body suddenly came alive and decide to leave by painfully plucking themselves out.





[Ok... I'm going to take a break from the pitches for now]

[Flick James]

I'm flattered you liked that. 

[Skull]

I'm flattered you liked that. 

I can picture some good kills (one director sliced by a glove claws, another by a chainsaw, another with a plastic bag... maybe one with a lightsaber [for the remastered New Hope]) although the budget is another story... would be an interesting script... :)

[Rev. Powell]

UNTITLED WESTERN SCI-FI PROJECT

It's sixguns versus rayguns as a bounty hunter and two desperadoes form an unlikely alliance to foil aliens' plans to invade the Old West.

[Flick James]

Pitch -

An obsessed and unbalanced fan of an actress begins to kill, one by one, the paparazzi who hound her. His obsession intensifies as he begins to feel entitled to the actress' gratitude.

[feiyen]

Pitch

Stuffed animals come back to life to wreak havoc on the owners that mistreated them.

[Flick James]

Pitch -

Identical twin sisters are separated at birth. One begins to commit crimes and murders and implicating the other, who is at first unaware she has an identical twin.

[Rev. Powell]

Pitch -

An obsessed and unbalanced fan of an actress begins to kill, one by one, the paparazzi who hound her. His obsession intensifies as he begins to feel entitled to the actress' gratitude.

Sorry, but my time is too valuable to read something that long.  Try to keep it under 25 words next time.   

[diamondwaspvenom]

Pitch:

An amateur filmmaker risks his life by filming a documentary on a family of cannibals with the actual family.

[diamondwaspvenom]

Pitch:

Three unpopular bounty hunters get their chance to regain recognition when an old man hires them to kill a mutant that has been stealing his prune juice.