Lets make a bad movie (part 1)

[Lancer]

Ok, I was thinking how fun it could be if we could come up with the perfect bad movie...

This is part 1... and to start we need an area of focus. Sure most bad movies seems to loose that focus durring the filming, but before the filming has to start there was a focus. An Idea, a story, something that will give a reasion to fund and produce the film.

This Focus could be anything... A spin off of something (seems mostliky), a simple idea, a story, extra time left from another film project, a kick ass title, etc, etc...

A focus dosent mean a script in general (many bad movies started without a script, or the script was made on the fly)

Ok, please pitch any ideas for the focus... (the best idea will be used in our bad movie project)

My focus idea:

A horror story, a spin off of friday the 13th meet Slience of the Lambs.

[The Burgomaster]

Well, I'm not sure about the story, but I think the movie should have the following cheesy elements:

* A mad scientist with a beautiful daughter whose face has been scarred by acid

* A former colleage of the mad scientist, who tries to steal the mad scientist's secret formula

* A deformed assistant, who hopes that the mad scientist can help him become "normal" someday

* A fat man known as "The Burgomaster"

* A local tavern where the proprietor's wife whispers to all the customers about "strange goings-on at the castle"

* A young, dashing hero who comes into town on a stagecoach during a thunderstorm

* A local priest, who questions his faith, becomes evil for awhile, then has a change of heart and sacrifices himself at the end to save the day

* A wise old vampire hunter with a slavic accent

[Lancer]

Joe... very cool... Lots a good ideas... and not much on the focus...

This would be like step 2 (working the forus into a story)

Its funny because I remember seeing something about "Hammer Pictures" (or some place like Hammer) and an artist messed up on the poster so intead of tossing out the posters they decided to make a movie off the poster...  

I do think "mad scientist" could be a good focus on the beging of the perfect bad movie...

[ad]

Ages ago I wrote a parody of the "die-hard-in-a-with-a-using-a" movies with John McClane chasing an electric milk float that would explode if reached over 5 mph....the ending had the milk float crashing into a parked airplane and taking literally days to reach it - then explodes in the most ridicicoulous fashion, out exploding the death star.

I later found that Father Ted did a much better parody.

As for the bad movie comp, I'd make a ridiciousily confusing and paranoid spy triology. I did think of it ages ago as a sort of parody of consipiracy theroy movies.

Basically the first movie has a lone, burned out, unshaven FBI agent with mullet and gun is hired by mysterious agents to kill off a Mad professor turned dictator of some odd country and is threatening to nuke the hero's country (never made clear in the film) from his secret hideout.

Naturally it rips off every other paranoid movie out there with the FBI agent thinking he's being chased by other FBI/CIA guys and silly plot holes that don't make sense.

In the end he discovers the professor is cloning the world's president's for his own diabolical schemes but fortuently the FBI agent kills the professor before the clones are sent in.

The second one was has yet another FBI agent who isn't actually any good and is demoted to doing sh*t jobs on the side and is friends with a senator. The senator is killed whilst investigating the overthrowing of mad professor in #1. It turns out the Senator discovers a wild consipiracy theory - and the FBI is hot on the trail of the killers of the Senator only to be implicated himself and lo and behold he discovers the truth - the unimaginable, unspeakable truth that makes absolutley no sense....we didn't win world war two and the whole world is an elaborate hoax and the hero of #1 killed off the only 'man' who dared to rise up against the hoax and stopped the only country that would have put a stop to the evil hoax world.

The third one tells a story that the other two stories never took place...it was all a dream. Only it wasn't.

[Lancer]

Ok other good ideas on "The Focus"

* A mad scientist that has a giant scorpion farm, and has a collection of shrunken people.

* I have 15 mins. of film of the great __________________ and I would like to complete the movie, in his honor... (this film footage could be anything, too)

* Rap star, Doggie Boots, is looking to play in a big budget film, but  the movie producer wants him to try a "B-Movie" so he could get some acting experance... Also, the Big budget film starts shooting in 2 months.

* I have 2 incomplete films both are about 30 mins each and I was thinking that I could make a 90 min movie by adding both of then together and shoot the rest of the the film... The moves... "Long drive to nowhere" and "The Legend of Billy the Kids Grandpa"

:D

[Lancer]

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A ridiciousily confusing and paranoid spy triology...

Nice...

[Evan3]

I always thought it would be cool, for vampires in the old west. They come to a little town in order to feast, but find almost everyone is already dead. WHy are the people dead? Werewolves. (cool werewolves like the ones in An American Werewolf in Paris, not the ones in Jack Nicholson movie).

So, a few vampires team up with the sherrifs of aq local town. It turns out a dfemon baby is the one conjuring up all of the werewolves.

Everyone dies beating werewolfs except leader vampire, leader human, and some hot woman. They then have to square off against demon baby.

And there is a fat guy named burgomaster.

[Lancer]

Evan3... Nice...

So the Focus is...

Vampires in the old west. They come to a little town in order to feast, but find almost everyone is already dead. WHy are the people dead?

Nice... Now that does sound like a really bad movie...lol...

[Funk, E.]

Oh... f**k this could ge great. How about everybodies dead... but not for long... They all start to rise as Zombie and since the Vampires have brains... It's "Undead vs the Living Dead in Tombstone"

[Lancer]

Funk, E.

"Undead vs the Living Dead in Tombstone"

wow... A great bad movie title...

[Brother Ragnarok]

This vampire vs. werewolf thing sounds cool as all hell.  Now, my question is, how many people here are actually serious about doing this?  I'm in if you guys are.  Never underestimate the power of really cool people in large groups.

Brother R

[raj]

On a different tack,
A famous and violent  record producer gets drunk and kills a beloved B-movie actress.  He is then tormented throughout the movie by a seemingly invincible hockey-mask wearing vigilante. In the penultimate scene, he finally stabs the vigilante in the heart with a wooden stake.  It has no effect, so producer rips off the mask, to reveal. . . Carrot-top (waits for the screams to subside).  Producer then leaps to his death.  He wakes up in Hell, and standing over him is. . . Pauly Shore.

Any resemblence to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

[Deej]

So, I think the Vampire/werewolf-western sounds cool, the Vampires are kinda the Earps, and the Werewolfs the Clantons...neat. But the most important thing, whatever else happens....hear me out people.....Jan Michael-Vincent!!!!! huh? huh? hello? anybody? Huh?

[Lancer]

Brother Ragnarok, before we start thinking big (funny because most makers of bad movies do think big) we are starting small...

Lets find out what ideas we could spawn up and see what happens on Monday (this gives everybody time to come up with ideas)

I do like the "Undead vs the Living Dead in Tombstone" :D

[The Burgomaster]

We all live in different parts of the country (even different parts of the world), but I think it would be fairly easy for us to make a bad movie together. We could use the "Al Adamson" method (see BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR). We could each film some scenes and then send them all to one person who could edit them together. It doesn't matter whether there is any continuity or whether the scenes even deal with the same subject matter. (Adamson never worried about things like that, and he made a lot of movies).