What's a good idea for a horror/thriller movie?!


Question: What's a good idea for a horror/thriller movie!?
I'm in a video class and our new project is making a short horror film!. The guidelines are that it has to be 3-5 minutes and high school appropriate (So no blood, guts, and gore)!. So My group is trying to think of ideas for a Psychological thriller!. We came up with one idea, but I think it's a little underdeveloped!.

Here it is: A boy is playing basketball at night and his parents call him to come home, but after he hangs up with them, he receives a unchecked voice mail!. He opens the voice mail and its just some strange ambient sound!.

Okay well that's pretty much what we have so far, but we have no clue how to keep the story going!.

So if you have any ideas, it would be a lot of help!Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
if you use a cell phone to represent your first threat, you know its a person who it the villian right!?

but if you use animals, mysterious minipulations of objects, and people but not in thier natural form, its more like a force of the devil---like the exorcist, but without putting a form to the devil(aka the little girl) its like its surrounding you, you cant target it, so how do you stop it, can you stop it

horror stories dont have to have a happy ending, when the evil is gone all is good right!? when the evil remains , the fear lingers!. maintain the idea and the goal that after this movie, people can walk by a neighbors house and wonder if someone is peering out at them, leave them to fear that in the pitch black they may not be able to see the bugs that may be crawling all over them , in thier ears, hair, sheets!.
if they hear a sound is it a manipulation of (lets say their house, in the instance that the walls are creaking) of evil!. a pen drops to the floor, did something caus it to fall!?,- did someone!?

make them re-examine thier security in the presence of evil

make them feel uneasy doing the simplest things theyve always done before!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I did a horror movie in High School, of course it was half an hour and was about a cerial killer named "Axe"!.
If you want to do a phsycological thriller, see Hitchcock!. He had the best ideas for horror/thriller films!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

the voicemail says i will kill you today when you go in the shower and then he dosnt belive her and he goes into the shower and after like 5 minuets she pops out (she has no eyes or jaw) and kills himWww@Enter-QA@Com

Maybe have the sounds of him playing basketball being mixed wit the ambient sound and a sinister laugh!.

Since it's going to be a low budget kind of affair, the sounds will be crucial and also what you don't show to the audience!. Remember Blair Witch Project and other such films!. also check out Hitchcock because he was great at building up suspense!. also, Psycho boasts one of the most brutal murder scenes on film - yet it doesn't actually show a cutting/ stabbing taking place and note the sound in that scene!. The imagination of the audience comes up with scarier things than you could show, which is why it is better to suggest rather than be explicit!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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