Originally Posted by roshiq

The Unusual & Uncanny

A horror anthology of four frightening stories/parts directed by 4 directors:

Samantha's Grave:
Alex baker just came to the cemetery to pay his last visit & tribute to his dead wife samantha. She died last month after suffering a severe fever with a rare skin disease for last 1 & half year. Alex though bit drunk but (standing in front of samantha's grave) started nicely "dear sam, you'll be missed in coming days...." but gradually his tone and mode begin to change & started to curse her..."you 1 god damn terrible ugly bitch, i hope you're now rotting in hell. Thank god he took you away before i was going to kill you...".
The good for nothing job & childless alex actually was happy & felt very lucky when samantha died. He then able to acquire all the property that she inherited from her parents as well as her savings in the bank. Alex already sold them, took the money & moving to las vegas to have all the joy & fun in the world that he was waiting for a long time.
After a while he left the cemetery & started to drive away from the town in his old volkswagen. After driving nearly 10 to 15 miles the horror begins when he started to seeing samantha's grave with the epitaph beside or even in the middle of the road. It was like following him. He thought he was fully drunk & hallucinating all of these. He then stopped in a highway motel to spend the night. When he lied down in the bed, he just instantly fall into sleep. In the middle of the night he woke up for a moment with a bad smell while seeing samantha's grave just in front of the room's door inside.
"wtf!?! Why they allow her to come into my room?" alex was mumbling & fall into sleep again. But next time when he wake...he didn't wake in the room; he wake up inside samantha's grave while she has so much to say & give to him now under a creepy makeover!
Director: Mitchell lichtenstein (teeth)
cast: Dylan baker (alex baker), jordan ladd (samantha)


The Mute Girl:
After deciding to live together, sally moved into paul's new rented apartment in the downtown. At the very first night she waked in the middle of the night as she heard a little girl mumbling something very near somewhere. Next morning she took the matter very lightly but told paul about that & asked whether the building's premise has a 'haunting' history. Paul was laughing & assured her that there's no such thing with this calm & quite place. While they were going out for the office sally saw a very cute little asian girl with her mother in the elevator. When she asked her name then none of them replied but left the lift. Later paul told sally that the woman & her daughter moved into their upper floor just few months back, that girl's name is simi & she can't speak and nobody knows about her father as the rarely spoken mother don't like to talk about him for some unknown reason.
After few days sally first saw that mute girl in her dream. The dream was very ordinary, she was in the office arguing with paul for a very silly matter. The extraordinary part comes when suddenly she saw that little asian girl standing in a corner of the room. Paul didn't notice her while simi came towards sally & told her that the old lady who alone in their next door flat have been died for 3 but nobody knows. And that will eventually discover later by the apartment manager.
In this way, simi started to showing herself in sally's dream infrequently & tells her all about the sad & disturbing things happening in different flats of the building. She can't tell her mum who was highly insomniac. But sally wasn't convince enough whether to believe her or not as in reality she actually can't say a single word or make a sound from her mouth. She kept the strange matter with herself. Simi later even begin to tell her in dreams about things going to happen in near future. Like the car accident causes the death of the couple living in top floor, sally's pregnancy...paul's hidden-negative reaction about it and finally his conspiracy to killing the unborn baby! When helplessly sally asks for help to simi, then she agrees to help her in one condition: She will accept all the consequences whatever happens next which won't heart at least sally for sure. Sally accepts the deal and next day when paul tried to drugged her with a high dose medicine that's enough to cause the damage then simi begins to scream from her apartment. The terrible sound of the scream breaks down all the glasses of the buildings and almost all the people inside the apartment loses their hearings and their ears starts to bleed heavily. And sally & her baby lives but simi & her mother leaves the building & disappears forever.
Director: Paul solet (grace)
cast: Sally (angela bettis) , paul (aj bowen)


The Illegal Immigrant:
In an alternate reality somewhere in europe or america a state government legalized vampirism for the very first time in history.
Against the high protests from different national & international groups of many forms, the ruling govt. Leader said in a press note: "it's now time to think about whether to deny & destroy them as an undead night creature or to welcome & place them in our community under some strictly mutual interests that can help us to prosper & develop economically & defensively...."
the main aspect was that the state can use them in various day to day productive ways in night shift for in the betterment of their effectiveness as a nation or country. But there are some strict laws that everyone need to follow: Vampires not allowed to feed on any local people, tourists and legal immigrants. In the same way humans or any legal foreigners or locals will be punished if they tries to hunt any vampires. Now the question rise...then how will the vampires able to survive? A legal division of health care is in charge of that matter who will provide their very necessary food/blood supply from the imprisoned convicted human criminals with death sentence and from the alarming rate of illegal immigrants who also treated as criminal.
Now the story begins when an high official human govt. Servant mr. Roman nicolai started to suspect his colleague john ahmed may be engaged in providing unlawful protections to some illegal immigrants. Roman secretly assigns norton dark...a young punk vampire who's been fugitive for months after beating & killing several humans. Roman assured norman that if he can get some valid info by invading john's mansion at night while he will be out for an office party, then he'll manage to take off all the charges against him.
At the same time, john was actually providing shelter for a fellow named mikhael who somehow came from the same country where john was born. Unfortunately mikhael found himself as an illegal immigrant but assured by john that he'll help him to get out from this state & send him somewhere where he won't at least get killed by the authorities who fed vampires.
So when norton breaks down into john's big mansion then a cat & mouse game starts between him & mikhael which ended in the green house located in the middle of the garden behind the mansion and norton met with mikhael's another or hidden side...werewolf!
The story will be ended with an indication that a group of illegal immigrants actually planned to fight back with the vampires & vampire feasted authority with the help of an army of werewolves who 'unintentionally' helped some of them to become the members of their clan.
Director:michael dougherty (trick r' treat)
cast: Roman (henry czerny), mikhael (naveen andrews), norton (shea whigham) , john (tony todd).

Originally Posted by Roshiq

The Protection:
For the 7thh time in life Forlan very..very luckily escapes certain accident where many people already died unfortunately. Like today after the office hour when he & his colleagues were waiting for the elevator in the 18th floor of their office building then suddenly his case broke down with no apparent reason & he missed the lift while most of the others died in a horrible accident as the lift crash down in the ground. Forlan was shocked as he can still clearly remember the same type of incidents occurred in his life. Like the time at the massive bridge accident of L.A. when he couldn't get to it as one of the tires got punctured just before the bridge in the road. Or he was the only guest that night who couldn't go into a big corporate party in a hotel as he forget to bring his invitation card with him but later the whole floor burned down for a cylinder leak in the kitchen and everyone died.
Forlan was totally devastated. So his father came to see after long time & finally revealed their family secrets of being his so lucky in all these years.
It was a group of Jinns who protected them all these years from all sorts of accidents. Forlan's father Fredrick claims that in many years ago while he was visiting India he saved a religious man from a road accident. That man turned out to be a powerful Pir who in return assigns a good bunch of Jinns to protect Fredric's family for next 50 years from any accidents & dangers. But in return Fredrick & his coming generations have to marry Pir's any widowed female descendants. And then Fredrick married to one of his beautiful daughters who was widowed and Forlan was actually son of Fredrick's that 1st wife (who died at his birth) before marrying with Cathy in the States who Forlan used to know as his real mother. So Fredrick requested Forlan to go to India marry a girl named Sultana who is last living descendant of that Pir but unfortunately become widowed as she had a marriage in childhood but lost the husband in cholera after some years of marriage.
Forlan refused to believe Fredric's story & denied his proposal of getting married to an unknown woman. Moreover he told him that he has a girlfriend (Barbara) now and he's already committed to her.
Fredrick blasted out as saying then the protection will be lifted the & the JINNS will turn up against them. Forlan again refuses to believe his fairy tales like stories & threaten to send him to a doctor for mental check up.

Then in the end one fine day of their honeymoon Forlan & Barbara face their worst possible fate by a very silly & weird accident.

Director: Andrew Currie (Fido)
Cast: Fredrick (Udo Kier), Forlan (Sendhil Ramamurthy), & Emmanuelle Vaugier.

Originally Posted by ~Michelle~

Hi V!!

I would like to say thank you to you and the judges for a second chance but I stand by my original entry as I had said that it was enough time to do the challenge, and honestly this is the first time since my last posting that I have even gotten on here, but yes as I had also said when I get a chance to sit and iron out kinks I'll send it in just for a read hopefully next week when I'm back home, and not jumping from place to place! Makes life a bit hectic at the moment! ~S~

And on a side note...I'm sooo looking forward to going home!! I should be there by sunday night!! YAY!!!

Originally Posted by Straker

In order to truly capture the essence of Ed Wood and find a director worthy of the Edward D. Wood memorial Award I have chosen to look for a director who has shown a life long commitment to the craft and one whom best embodies the passion, flair and dedication of Ed Wood.

The director I have chosen began his journey towards this award back in the early 70’s and has added to his canon of work throughout his lifetime and continues to demonstrate his passion and love for the industry to the present day. In one of his earliest films, the blaxploitation classic, Black Caeser, he showed he had the flair, passion and ingenuity to follow in the footsteps of Ed Wood and hold true to the essence of his appeal.

Throughout his career, the director held true to the ideology and appeal associated with Wood, offering up his own brand of creative filmmaking. Writing, Directing and Producing inventive and entertaining movies such as:

The Stuff (writer/ director)
Maniac Cop (writer)
A Return to Salem’s Lot (writer/ director)
It’s Alive (writer/ producer/ director)
Original Gangstas (Director)
Phone Booth (writer)

Along with many more…

Of course, the award goes to Larry Cohen who’s long career, spanning 4 decades and still going, has personified the passion and flair of Ed Wood. Often working on low budgets Cohen has remained focused and has driven his long career on the desire to create. There is a sense of passion and flair running through his career which embodies the spirit and appeal of Wood, making him a worthy and deserving winner of the award.

Originally Posted by ~Michelle~

For the Actors I chose...Mantan Moreland, Skelton Knaggs and Dwight Frye

I think Mantan Moreland would have made a great Wallace 'Wally' Karue in 'See no Evil, Hear No Evil' because..
Mantan was a cocky comedian, who had a cackling laugh and buldging eyes and who could be jittery at the same time. This movie seems fitting as he would have taken on Richard Pryors character of 'Wally' a blind man, along side Gene Wilder's character of 'Dave' a deaf man. Mantan had teamed up with other comedians while still alive to keep his career alive so to speak. Mantan had a great talent for making people laugh, which is why I think he would have done very very well in this roll.


I think Skelton Knaggs would have made a great 'Herbert West' because ....
Skelton was known as the soft spoken creepy guy, he often played sinsiter roles. Skelton was an odd looking fellow, who also just looked like the 'mad scientist' type. This role was chosen more from a 'gut feeling' than for any other reason, the first picture online that I saw of Skelton the character of 'Herbert West' just jumped at me.

I think Dwight Frye would have made a great Castor Troy/ Sean Archer in 'Face Off' because.....
Dwight was an extremely versatile actor even though most of his work was uncredited, he specialized in protraying mentally disturbed characters. With being the type of actor he was, to play a character like Castor Troy/Sean Archer it takes talent as for one half (Castor Troy) is a crazy powerful criminal killer, and the other half (Sean Archer) is a heart broken government agent trying not only to bring this killer to justice but also to avenge the death of his son.

Originally Posted by roshiq

In its successive period of more than 20 years Monogram considered a leader among the smaller studios (Poverty Row) that able to established the idea "When the Monogram logo appeared on the screen, everyone knew they were in for action and adventure". It produced and released nearly 1,000 genre films, such as Westerns, serials, comedy shorts, and melodramas, between 1931 and 1953. The studio also produced a number of memorable horror films, ten of them starring Bela Lugosi, including The Ape Man (1943), Invisible Ghost (1941), King of the Zombies (1941), and Voodoo Man (1944). Lugosi�s frequent co-star, Boris Karloff, also appeared in six films for Monogram, including Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) and The Fatal Hour (1940).
Among its variety of films as an ardent fan of classic horror films I picked studio's the 1946 horror film THE FACE OF MARBLE in response to the specified challenge/question.

The New Title: THE VOODOO VENGEANCE

Now it's better to start with a intro of the original film to know more about the story and making the necessary changes for the required update:
Charles Randolph is an aged medical researcher, who has recently moved to an isolated mansion somewhere on the Atlantic coast in search of the privacy he needs to complete his latest project. With the help of a young doctor, one David Cochran; they are working to develop a way to restore life to dead tissue, more precisely to restore the recently dead (as in, a couple of hours or less) to life.
The introduction to Randolph�s work in the film comes late one night when he and Cochran bring into their lab the body of a drowned sailor whose ship seems to have been lost in the storm raging just off the coast. Randolph�s butler, Shadrach sees the two men sneaking the corpse inside the mansion.

Changes:
[1] The Butler character will appear with the name 'Russo' and Belga Lugosi will be in charge of that role. Russo, the butler will be the lone provider of the necessary corpses for Randolph's experiment. In this version of the movie Randolph & Cochran will not be engaged in that sort of activity (bringing corpses inside the mansion). Russo is a very devoted & royal servant of Dr. Randolph who think himself as a master in the voodoo business for his some earlier experience & knowledge in that particular trade (where in the original film the maid Maria got that attribute; her character will be very less significant in this version & will be appear in very few scene).
[2] More importantly one of the major changes will be the experiment or the research that Dr. Randolph & Cochran are conducting will be shown less significantly means...without a significant or any success or you can say with a practical point of view...more precisely, there will be no kind of 'resurrection happening' (like shown in the Face of Marble) in this version; the one or few attempt(s) of resurrection will outcome failure but Randolph will be hopeful & madly determined about the project. Though their whole research thing would be appear kinda meaningless but instead of leaving Randolph, Cochran is still working with him just to stay close to his old town/high school crush Elaine...Dr. Randolph's wife! That means there will be no character of Cochran's girlfriend Linda Sinclair in this film which was in the original.
[3] In this updated/changes version the character of Elaine will come with some negative attributes or evil intentions. As she married to old aged/quite elder Dr. Randolph just cause of his wealth/money. But like in the original film here we can also see her fall for Cochran as she thinks who really does seem to be a more logical match for her than the older, more driven Dr. Randolph.
[4] So it'll be no late when both Elaine & Cochran know each others feelings & intentions and the twists of the story will mainly starts at that point. But the more crucial point here is butler Russo will also come to know about their secret meeting(s) as he heard their conversations one night. He get stunned by hearing the idea from Elaine about even somehow killing the Doctor, inherent his properties & then runaway with Cochran. Although Cochran highly objects that idea of conspiracy & killing but Russo in the meantime already determined that he can't let any of those happen as long as he's alive & serving for his master Dr. Randolph. Then we also came to know from Russo (as he's like talking to himself) that he's already extremely devoted to his master, and never hesitates to practice his strange island magic like he believes that last time he wished & spelled his master to get married with an young & beautiful lady which he at least thinks results Randolph's marriage with Elaine.
[5] Like in the original film the character of a police detective called Inspector Peter Norton will be quite same & also appear in this version in the same way...as Russo is collecting corpses from graveyards or other unknown sources, Inspector one day stops by to talk to Randolph when he wasn't at the mansion. Although he may tell Russo & Elaine that it’s just a social call (he and her husband are old friends), and indeed, when he gets in touch with Randolph later, it turns out that Norton has found himself in the difficult position of having to investigate his old pal for murder & stealing dead bodies.
[6] Here I like to also clarify that there will be no character of or place for the Dead/resurrected dog Brutus in this version (the dog ridiculously came back to life with the ability to pass through any solid matter in the original film!).
[7] Now let's go back to the action/main storyline where Russo is now about to take advance revenge for his master as he knows Cochran & Elaine are betraying him. So one late midnight Russo whips up some kind of voodoo nerve gas potion into the lab where he thought Cochran is working. But he has miscalculated (You can see here some similarities with the original film where the scheming maid plans to get rid of the girlfriend of Cochran when she came for a visit in the mansion). Though normally Cochran works or runs some tests alone for Dr. Randolph in late at night but Russo didn't know or noticed instead of Cochran, Dr. Randolph was working late in the lab that night. Thus it is Randolph who is working in the lab when Russo’s lethally effective gas-bomb goes off and the doctor dies. His dead body then discovered by Cochran just after the incident as he comes to the lab to tell Randolph he's no more willing to work in his project. But as he find his bead body he screamed & start calling everyone. Then after few moments Russo comes to the lab & he get totally shocked & mad as he sees that his plan went totally wrong. The devastated Russo then revealed his actual intentions & plan (as he starts to tell) to Cochran. After hearing that Cochran get worried for Elaine & asks Russo whether he has done anything to her. Russo then tells him (with having kinda evil/mad smile in his face) she is already at the top of cliff just next to their mansion as he has already hypnotized her to get jump from the cliff.
Cochran then run for her to save her from the accident while treating (& give a little punch on his face) Russo that he'll be apprehended soon by the police. Cochran able to save Elaine through some moment of tensed "cliff-hanging" situation.

At the very beginning of the film it'll start with a monologue of butler Russo about how he's so much grateful to his master and at the end we'll see that he's actually telling this whole story at the police station to the Inspector Peter Norton which means at the end he really get apprehended by the police.

Production info:
The title: The Voodoo Vengeance

Director: Edgar Georg Ulmer (The Black Cat-1934)

Cast:
George Zucco as Dr. Charles Randolph
Kent Smith as Dr. David Cochran
Anna Lee as Elaine Randolph
Tom Conway as Inspector Peter Norton
Bela Lugosi as Russo
(At the beginning, I thought Karloff & later Claude Rains for the role of Dr. Randolph but as the character provide nothing significant in the climax rather than die...which I think wouldn't be appropriate for actors with such great reputations like Karloff & Rains had at that time.)

Producer: Sam Katzman
Story editor & on a special panel of advisers: Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur.


Special Note regarding the involvement of Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur into the film as advisers on a special panel: Though as far I know both Lewton & Tourneur were actually worked for RKO films but in this case for the very first time they could make a difference under special consideration/request for/from the studio; which they can use in their promotional/advertising campaign/Trailers of the film before the release.
Or the entire involvement issue may be remain unknown to the public/press at the time of its release but several years later from an interview of one of the crew members of this film it'd get revealed.

Originally Posted by newb (Post 869551)

Michelle - FIT with 43 HPs, (Sniper Rifle with 18 shells, Plasma Cannon with 10 Bolts, Shotgun with 10 Shells, BOLT spell)


it's gonna be a fucking bloodbath

by boys

Originally Posted by ~Michelle~ (Post 869583)

Oh Great and Powerful _____V_____,
Would you be so kind as to tell us just how many health said Chainer has??

Please and Thank you! ~S~

Originally Posted by Straker (Post 869587)

So, I have a logistics question....

Can we use multiple hits with our special weapons? For example, can I use it 4times this round?

&

If someone gets there targets in before anyone else and kills there target, will they still respond with there attacks or will they already be dead? :cool: