Top 100 on Bravo.

[Joe Calabrese]

FYI,
Over the weekend Bravo had the top 100 scariest movie moments ever in a 5 part, 5 hour special. Pretty good stuff. Interviews, clips, etc...

Next time it's on is May 6th. Set your TIVO.

As a screewriter always looking for a new angle, I was thinking what would happen if you incorporate the top 20 or 50 into one film. Hmmm? Let me think about it for a bit.

[Kevin Yarbrough]

Joe, want a new angle? You can write the screenplay for my horror/thriller book and sell it.

Thanks for the Bravo bit, will have to catch it.

[Joe Calabrese]

Send me an email telling about it. Maybe we can work out a deal if I think I can do it justice. writer@josephcalabrese.com

[Liam Jackson]

Joe, have you got a website?

[Anatole Ghio]

As a screewriter always looking for a new angle, I was thinking what would happen if you incorporate the top 20 or 50 into one film. Hmmm? Let me think about it for a bit.

I think Scream pretty well covered this angle and it worked because the whole film was about deconstructing the slasher film by first pointing out the cliche, and then delivering it in a fresh way... so the whole film become one big scene after another.

The problem with trying to compose anything based upon a collection of attention getting scenes is it will come off as contrived instead of organic.

Something like this could work, some writers put together a few key scenes and build a plot around this (hell, I've done it), but all too often it becomes a case of the parts being greater than the whole.

[Joe Calabrese]

Yes, Scream did take elements of other films of the genre and deconstructed it well, but what I was thinking are the scariest moments, not the cliché's of the genre.

In the documentary, one particular moment was the Achilles tendon slicing scene in Pet Cemetery. Since we know now that that is a gruesome and squeamish thing for audiences to see, then incorporate that as a method of torture in the new script.

I agree it would be hard to write something specifically, around elements (aka cart vs. horse) and I probably would think twice before doing it. I was mostly thinking out loud.

Oh and I do have a site Liam, www.josephcalabrese.com

[Kevin Yarbrough]

Joe, you got mail.