The rules of horror?
 

I am currently working on a horror novel, as this is my first, I'm looking to break a few rules -- therefore I need to know the rules of horror.
A few I know:
The virgin always lives (x - not in mine)
The religous person lives (x - not in mine)
Teenagers die, but never kids (x - not in mine)
There has to be a wild plot twist or two (v - I have a few)
The killer is never who you think it is (v - got that one)
The killer never dies when you think they do (v - got that one)
....
please help,
LK

The potsmokers usually die. Guess that eliminates 3/4 of this forum. :D

Make the potheads live........that will be a new one

make the killer a virgin pot-head...


...no, a MINORITY who is a virgin and a pot-head. Like, a Black or Mexican or Native American Indian or Natalie from the Facts of Life

YES make Natalie the killer and make her kill that damn Blair Warner bitch. With a bong shaped like a cross, that was purchase by a kid from a teenager and the wild plot twist is that the money when to a religous leader who was the killer we thought it was, but died and came back when we least expected it.

Wow

Nonono, the killer is...




Richard Linklater, who kills them using a series of Rube Goldberg like contraptions that start when they open their front door, and you think it's gonna be quick and end with a bag of old rotary phones crushing them, but NO, BITCHFACE!!! It ends when they get in their car where the mouse, startled by the cigar lighter, runs on his wheel which causes the small pin to pop the balloon which startles the victem, then they turn around and Richard Linklater beats them to death with a copy of Dazed and Confused. Then, they hang him with the film reel for Under the Tuscan Sun, which has nothing to do with Linklater, really, but the movie should be put to SOME use, don't you think? But then, WHAMMY (Blammy zowy powwy) he comes back to life, rapes the virgin to death, catapults Jack Black and some kids into a brick wall OF DOOM!, Rabbi Jeremiah in Ohio trips over some haggus, and the twist is that crack was developed and distributed by the government to destroy the black community.

Re: The rules of horror?
 

go think up your own ideas, ya talentless bastard. gessh if ya can't come up with a plot on ya own how the fuck are ya gonna write a entire book. i bet you're with that angels movie thingie in new members. you idea stealing loser piss off!

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HB beat me to it, but just so there's no confusion....


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