Idea for horror movie

Why no love for this thread?

Seems like a good idea!

You know how a lot of slasher movies use a killers POV shot?

What is the killer was a cameraman?!?!

Here's an idea of mine that's been stewing in my brain for a while. It's just a bare-bones plot, mind you; I haven't ironed all the details out yet.

We begin with a prologue in the mid-to-late 1800s. We're in a Catholic catherdral. Inside the cathedral enter these shady looking characters carrying this arcane looking altar. They set the altar down on the floor and begin to chant some incantations in some otherworldly language. The head priest of the cathedral then appears and confronts them, declaring that they cannot defeat him or the power of his god. The priest then begins to recite his own incantations. The power of the priest begins to drain the very life from these invaders, but they continue with their rites. In the end they die, falling apart into ashy skeletons, but not before they complete the ritual. The priest then dies, consumed by unearthly green fire.

Jump forward to the present. The cathedral and the altar within remain intact. Then one day someone accidentally jars the altar loose from its spot and damages it in the process. At that point the sinister Black Man, a shadowy apparition in black robes with glowing green eyes and saliva, awakens and begins to afflict the parishioners and the current head priest with horrible nightmares that bring their deepest, darkest fears and desires to the front of their minds. As the nightmares persist and grow more realistic the parishioners begin to grow irritable and violent, and the Black Man feeds off these negative emotions, growing stronger as he does so.

And as he feeds the Black Man begins to interact with the current head priest in his waking life, commanding him to do one thing: destroy the altar.

A bunch of people in the Jungle are getting killed by a mysterious source.

It turns out some plant was releasing a chemical that causes hallucinations. They were the ones killing each other and never even knew it.

A bunch of 18 year olds go to a deserted cabin for a weekend of fun. They find an old audio recorder in the basement and start playing it while doing drugs. It contains an incantation to call demonic spirits towards the cabin. One of them then goes out and is viciously attacked by the forest. When she gets back, she falls victim to demonic possession. Throughout the night, they are becoming demons one by one and the only way to stop them is by bodily dismemberment. Eventually one man remains while all others are possessed. He cuts his own hand off and replaces it a chainsaw when it gets possessed. Eventually, he kills all the demons. However, in the end, it turned out that he had done so much drugs that he imagined all the demons and just viciously killed all his friends and the others....

Unfortunately, I just recited the plot of Evil Dead with the original twist that Scott Spiegel thought of for the second one. Still, it's a generic enough plot that the new twist at the end can actually make a different horror movie if done well. You could also interchange the demons with ghosts, zombies, or even mutants for more originality.

I guess my main point is that it's not necessarily how original the idea is, but how well you can make it work. I mean even classics like The Shining weren't that original; the cast and director were just really good.

EDIT: Still, of the ideas on this thread, I do like Ziggy's. We need more horror movies in the jungle...

TAINTED SPONGE

A bioweapons research vessel leaks chemicals over a coral reef impregnating all the sponges which are harvested and sold as bath sponges.

The chemicals are activated by warm water and melt people in the bath and shower.

You know for kids?

TheBoost said:

You know how a lot of slasher movies use a killers POV shot?

What is the killer was a cameraman?!?!

Famously already done, sort of.

This crappy movie features a story that revolves around a murderer who films their victims on camera as they kill them.

THE WIG OMEN

A vain short bald man from India buys a toupee.

What he doesn't know is it's made from a scalp found on a Narragansett burial ground.

Haunted hairpiece horror mayhem follows.

The monster is called Father Time... And the creators will laugh from hell when only SE generations remain. But a copy of Puggo's will be found and descendants of the OT fans will fight it out post-apocalypse style with the SE zombies in Salute of the Bootlegger.

A regular ordinary tarp is animated and uses psychowhathaveyou powers to take revenge on those who wronged it and its brothers.

Title: It's a tarp!

PLA8IARIST

Martha Greyholme was a member of National Viewers and Listener's Association in the 1980's.

After viewing all 72 films on the DPP 'Video Nasty' list, she became so indignant at the moral decline of the country she committed seven hideous murders in the manner of the seven deadly sins and uncaught refused to watch another video cassette again.

In 2011, while languishing in a retirement home a fellow resident puts on a tape of Se7en.

Believing this to be the ultimate insult on her moral crusade she decides to prove that plagiarism is the eighth deadly sin, by killing the cast and crew and filming it on Super 8.