The Mighty HDC Battle Royale III

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HDC BATTLE ROYALE III ROUND OF 3 - THE VERDICTS


The final entry, came from Finalist Roshiq.

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).

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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.

This is what esteemed Judge had to say in his verdict...

"I can see Samantha's Grave coming out as an OK dark comedy.
The Mute Girl could have it's creepy moments.
The Illegal Immigrant story doesn't seem that interesting, but if planned out well enough what basically boils down to a vampire - werewolf fight could be entertaining.
The Protection is just like the others.. plain and simple, not a lot there but potentially entertaining. I don't see international box office success, but maybe some internet buzz around places like HDC could propel the DVD a bit.

Middle of the the road. I give it a 6/10."



So Roshiq, you have scored a pretty decent score for your long effort. Good show. You also win a SHOTGUN WITH FIVE SHELLS!

Congrats.



Also, as Michelle pointed out, she would be on the road till Sunday with her laptop so I don't think she might have the time to send in her originally planned entry. Regardless, since the honorable Judges have decided to give her another chance, I will give her 24 hours. At the end of that, we will go into the Zone outing.

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Well, it's almost 24 hours and I don't think Michelle would be sending in her "second chance" entry, but let's tick off the remaining minutes and then head into the Zone...


...in a bit.

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THE MIGHTY HDC BATTLE ROYALE III - ROUND OF 3 HUNTING SEASON


I address the THREE Finalists as they stand before the Zone gates before they open.

Remember that, regardless of the scoring, ALL OF YOU WILL BE HUNTING EACH OTHER AGAIN!!

Feel free and go ahead and choose your own random targets to kill or cause damage.

BUT...be mindful of one BIG fact this time around. THE CHAINER has been released and it lurks in the Zone somewhere - which is divided into FOUR sectors - A, B, C & D.

Finalists, PM me your choice of recipient targets AND choice of the sector in which you will be doing your hunting by Friday, NOON EST!

FAILURE TO CHOOSE ANY TARGETS OR A SECTOR BY THE DEADLINE WILL AMOUNT TO THAT FINALIST(S) BEING SHOT 16 TIMES BY THE SNIPERS IN THE WATCHTOWERS!!


Status Update coming up...

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Updated Status after Completion of Round of 3


Michelle - FIT with 28 HPs, (Sniper Rifle with 33 shells)

Roshiq - FIT with 15 HPs, (Shotgun with 5 Shells)

Straker - FIT with 33 HPs. (Shotgun with 6 Shells)

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Update


TWO Finalists have blasted their targets...ONE remains.


And I have a special message from Michelle (recorded via Satellite feed) -

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!!!

Looks like all's well that ends well, esteemed Judges. She has gracefully accepted her outcome of this Challenge.

[Straker]

Guess I should get a move on and shoot someone already. :)

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The Timeline inside The Zone




ROSHIQ strode into Sector D, straight at where STRAKER was dodging behind a clump of trees and blasted him with ALL FIVE Shotgun shots!

BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!!

Straker survived this brutal onslaught by grabbing at his HPs backpack. Fortunately he had enough.



MICHELLE heard the loud echoes of the blasts from the Shotgun in the distance. She was in Sector B and moved cautiously forward, feeling through the bushes and leaves. All of a sudden she stopped and went on one knee, looking forward with a very still head. She slowly lifted her Sniper rifle, and zoomed in straight ahead.

...at ROSHIQ!

SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!! SHIKT!!!

15 Sniper bullets thumped into Roshiq's body one after the other. He was bleeding profusely from all over his body - back, shoulders, chest, limbs, all of them had taken a battering. He slowly slumped backwards into the forest floor, fighting back huge waves of immense, searing pain from each of the wounds and complete drowsiness. His hands pulled feebly at his HPs backpack as his mind fought off complete blackness strongly again and again.

Roshiq showed a lot of grit fighting back an imminent death. He healed himself up the best he could, and USED UP ALL HIS HPs!!



STRAKER sat quietly, gathering deep breaths. He was caught off-guard by Roshiq who had blasted him five times and left him a bleeding, bloody torn mess. He took a lot of time healing himself, as he had dragged himself behind some trees away from sight. As soon as he felt better, he limped up and clumsily walked forward into Sector A, where he caught sight of Michelle moving away from him, humming a tune to herself with a smug smile. Straker licked his lips, and lifted his shotgun immediately.

BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!! BLAM!!!

Michelle stumbled to an abrupt stop, startled. The shells tore into her body mercilessly as she was thrown back with more shots ripping through her chest and stomach. She fell heavily backwards and started hyper-ventilating, a huge rush of fresh sweat breaking over her forehead and face. She gasped loudly as the hot, pulsating blood ran out of her open wounds across her body in long, crimson streaks. She grabbed at her HPs in wild desperation, as Straker dropped the empty Shotgun noiselessly.

The Chainer growled and grunted at the distant noises of the shots. It roamed aimlessly in Sector C, which none of the 3 Finalists had picked.

That concludes the Zone outing.



All 3 Finalists are led into the Medic Center for further treatments.




Let's have a look at the updated statuses...

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Updated Status after Hunting Zone Outing


Michelle - Shot SIX times by a Shotgun. FIT with 22 HPs.

Roshiq - Shot FIFTEEN times by a Sniper Rifle. FIT with 0 HPs.

Straker - Shot FIVE times by a Shotgun. FIT with 28 HPs.




And still, there are THREE...

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HDC BATTLE ROYALE III - ROUND OF 3 #2


The THREE Finalists are led back into The Justice Chamber after their respective treatments in the Medic Center and then asked to sit down.




You 3 have envelopes bearing your names in front of you. I shall open them one by one and recite the contents to each of you :-

STRAKER - Ed Wood is widely considered to be one of the worst filmmakers to ever walk the Earth, but there is no question that he was also one of the most passionate. He had no resources, less money, few connections and blessed little experience - but against all odds, he still made movies, for no reason other than that it was what he loved to do more than anything in the world.
Which modern filmmaker would you say best encapsulates the spirit of Ed Wood?
To whom, in recent years, would you award the "Edward D. Wood Jr. Memorial Award of Excellence"?



ROSHIQ - Find a film made by Monogram or Republic between 1932 and 1949. Update it. Change the plot slightly, recast it with contemporary actors and choose a new contemporary director.



MICHELLE - Choose any three of the following under-appreciated character actors and recast each of them as the lead in a popular/acclaimed film. Explain why you made your choice.
For example:
"I think Tom Conway would have made a great Willy Wonka because..."

Elisha Cook
Michael Ripper
Mantan Moreland
Skelton Knaggs
Dwight Frye
Ray Sager
Dick Miller


A lot of thought and research needs to go into each of the answers to these questions.

Because of that, your answers will carry PLENTY OF BONUSES. Each point scored by you, out of 10, WILL AMOUNT TO A HEALTH PACK! Which means, 5 Judges will be judging your entries and giving you marks out of 10, which will amount to a MAXIMUM of 50 HEALTH PACKS EACH IN THIS CHALLENGE'S BONUS!

All THREE of you have plenty of time too, till Sunday, Noon EST to send your answers via PM to me, which is a little over 69 HOURS FROM NOW!
So don't be hasty in sending off an answer this time. Take the Bonus into consideration and put some thought and research into your answers.

Your answers will then be sent off via PMs by me to ALL FIVE Judges who will analyse, evaluate, and award you points on a scale of 0-10. Beware, if you score below 5, you are liable to be PUNISHED by the same honorable Judge who has awarded you those below 5 points-score.

All the best, Finalists!