So, I have refined my idea a bit on the slasher flick. I had mentioned that I wanted to do a slasher flick, and while I doubt I can get anywhere near the style of Peter's Cheerbleeders, I think it would be a fun project. Bloody, horrifically bloody and violent; and very, very fun.
After thinking and tooling around with Celtx for a while, I realized that I wanted something a little different than the typical teen in the cabin sub-genre of slasher flicks. I began to think about the various slasher flicks that I've seen in the past and thought that something was missing from the lot; a western slasher.
Now, the very idea of setting anything as a "Western" suddenly brings up the imagery of cowboys, guns, and lots of period costumes and sets. So I began to try to figure out how to drop the requirements a bit. First off, I had always pictured it as a "cabin in the woods" film, so the idea of homesteaders trying to make it in the middle of nowhere sounded like a fun idea. And while homesteaders had a gun or two or three (depending on how many children they had and how many they could afford), it could up the ante a bit for the murderers as well. Especially since guns and ammo were limited by funds; and homesteaders were often scraping funds no matter how many movies have them hootin' and hollarin' and shooting their guns into the air.
I was not thinking about undead murderers or cannibalistic folk, but down-and-out villians who saw an easy way to attempt to take over at least part of a ranch with a hairbrained scheme. Yes, the idea is melodramatic, but it mainly sets up the situation, and there are a ton of examples of extremely stupid criminals. The rest is a game of cat and mouse with a good chunk of mayhem thrown in; especially since homesteaders are survivors by nature and not about to let themselves be killed easily.
Right now I'm writing on the initial draft so it will be very, very, very rough. But it can only get better from there, right?
