If YOU were a filmmaker...

What movie would you make?

Personally, I'm too poor and anti-social to assemble a film crew and make anything, but I've written several screenplays over the years. My ideal project would be an ongoing series of Universal Monster rip-offs merged with several slasher films. I fuckin' love Universal Monster movies, as I'd watched them a lot when I was old enough to work and buy dvds. In 2004, I was 16 years old. Old enough to get a job, and I could actually afford to buy shit for myself. I went straight to dvds, and Universal was releasing some awesome Legacy collections of the classic 30s and 40s monster movies. I was hooked.

I've also been obsessed with 70s and 80s slashers since I was 8, when Scream of all movies introduced me to them. I'm talking Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Terminator. These were the definitive horror films to me. I still love these redundant slasher icons, and could watch them anytime.

I've often dissected these films over and over in my head, trying to define them, and figure out why they stuck with me so much. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but there's no doubt they've been hugely influential on me and my aimless little life. I've always felt that if I were to make movies, these would be the movies to inspire me the most. Not limited to just slashers, I've always been big into Evil Dead too, just because it's such a gory creepfest, I'd feel wrong leaving it out of the mix.

There's so much crazy mythology behind these films that I wanted to exploit, because in this day and age, nothing is original. Why not make something inspired by these iconic horror films? Add some southern white trash and a lot of marijuana into the mix, and NOW we're talking!

I've outlined several monster movie slasher hybrids over the years, and there's always the faint hope of making these a reality that keeps me going. I could ramble on about my ideas, but I'd rather listen to some of yours.

If you could make a single movie, or several movies... what would they be? Have you ever written any screenplays? As usual, feel free to ramble on, cuz that's what this place is about!