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This week's Answer: A
new genre: "Horrorible" Films That's
an excellent question, Mr. H. (if I may be so bold as to
call you that). So you don't like... Horror
Movies!! I
was just testing you. Hopefully, you didn't reel
back in your seat with eyes bugging out and you didn't
start breathing heavily and get all agitated and
fearful. I'm sure you didn't. But, if anybody
else fell out of his or her chair, I'll wait a few seconds
for you to sit back
down........................................................................
Okay, I think that should do it. It's
not an easy task to write in a genre that you don't care
for (or that doesn't care for you. For
example: goofy beer-fest flicks and I don't get
along all that well, so we have a mutual agreement:
I don't write them and they don't throw up on me.) Writing
a screenplay is a long haul, no matter how you figure it
and you better like the journey from FADE IN: to FADE
OUT. (Wouldn't it be something if there really were
some small towns named, "Fade In" and "Fade
Out"?) There
must be other genres that you like better and ones that
you'd prefer to writing in rather than horror. The
choices are multifarious (sometimes I throw in a big word
to remind everybody that I'm an important writer):
romantic comedy, comedy, drama, dramedy, comedrama (I just
made that up -- but not to horrify you), coming-of-age
(although... some of those kids' faces with acne can be
quite horrifying), Westerns, easterns (made that up, too),
period pieces, capers (and caviar -- not really), bank
robberies, heists, detective scripts, mysteries,
tragedies, tragic comedies. (like some of the ones
they foist on us during the holidays. Maybe they
should be called "tragic holiday attempts at
comedies." But I'm not naming names....
Santa. Or characters in films that attempt to play
Santa.) There are war movies, anti-war movies,
"always end up in Iraq so we'll overflow with
patriotism and pity for the soldiers there" movies,
and "let's try to be really funny and use little
people and have at least three gross scenes where somebody
either throws up -- for us all to see -- or something
happens to them in a bathroom" movies. You
know, come to think of it... Maybe
you should just write horrors.
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