Just wondering if anybody is working on a Halloween Fan Film in the San Francisco Bay Area? I think it would be fun to work on one
Let me know if you find out, I’m in Concord
Nice, im about a half hour away in Brentwood, but im in Concord quite often at Rasputins or Guitar Center and starting at DVC soon
I’m in SF, lemme know, I’d be down to help.
Brentwood huh? Small world Yeah guys that would be something I’d be interested in, maybe we could get something going…
I’m down to get something going, just a matter of finding actors and getting a good storyline going. By the end of June I should have a new video camera that shoots in HD and 24p so it would have a film look (Canon HV40)
That sounds good, I know a few people who could help out with this and that, even a couple of houses for shoots. One place is in Martinez, lots of space at the top of a hill and pretty secluded. Even has a big deck with a 15 foot drop
Sounds awesome, i just wish i had an idea for a fan film that is different from the others. I can provide some good equipment because i’ll be in the film courses at DVC so i can borrow gear as well as from my former high school teacher.
Right, that sounds good. We could kick some ideas around, maybe some other people that are in our general area will see this too. Just keep it in mind and keep me posted, sounds like it would be a blast
I have writing experience and wouldn’t mind taking a crack at a Halloween short. I think we could play up some sides of Michael that have been overlooked since the original. Like Michael’s twisted sense of humor (the blanket scene). Could be cool. If we’re aiming for summer, that would work better for me. We could film in a weekend.
im actually writing a fan made screenplay / script whatchya think?
Untitled “Halloween” concepts
Characters:
John Strode- the “Ahab” character. Pays homage to Dr. Loomis, more or less plot device. Investigating the murder of his mother Laurie strode not convinced she committed suicide. Believes after doing research of the crime scene evidence that the whole thing is a cover up by the cult of “thorn”.
Michael Myers- after escaping “the Hill Crest Academy Murders” Michael is drawn by “thorn” to finish Laurie and return home. Taking back his stab wounded, blood stained jump suit along the way. Done cleverly, don’t want to give too much action away. Perhaps have a scene of coroners are about to open up the body bag and notice its already open with nude headless corpse of Laurie’s victim on a bloody stretcher. Michael takes stolen ambulance car back to Illinois and breaks in to police county evidence room to recover his half burnt, slightly chard mask (JC H1 mold) from the night he came home, his bloody tears run down the mask face. On the way back to Haddonfield Michael is picked up by the cult. And vanishes until the next cycle of thorn continues.
Dr. Loomis- is only portrayed through memories or narrative monologs and or visions. The heart and soul of this project. Want to use a memory scene and have Loomis unlock some secret but don’t know what yet, possible information of what happened to him between the events of curse and H20.
Stephen Myers aka Bryan Eldridge- now a seventeen year old student to a nearby sister town of Haddonfield called Russellville. Under the name Bryan eldridge and unaware of his past he is now an adopted child of jerry and Pam eldridge. Stalked by Dr. Terrence Wynn (the man in black). Pays homage to Laurie but not have him the main focus of story. Truth is uncovered at end after a john strode (Loomis type) rescue.
Dr. Terrence Wynn- the “big brother” of the second act. The watcher of potential victims. Use as “the voice of Michael” but only “come to me” and “kill for him” references.
Story outline
Michael walks away from the murder scenes of hill crest academy. Drives to the institution were Laurie is being held. Will not have the death of Laurie in this. Instead Michael pulls up to the asylum gets out and stares at Laurie’s window (foreshadow her death). Michael returns home to pick up his mask. He then hides away with thorn through underground corridors of his basement which leads to the new cult sanctuary. Lies dormant until next cycle of thorn, possibly ten yrs later. In that time we meet john strode now a federal agent of investigation. Who is not convinced that his mother just ended it all with a jump off the roof. Good area to work on character development and Loomis memories as research of his mother’s death is unearthed.
We also meet Bryan Eldridge getting ready to go to school being stalked by man in black. He feels wanted yet alone, as if people knew more about his past and he doesn’t know it.
Knowing that Michael is still missing john goes to Haddonfield out of the obsession and the knowing that the cult thorn exist.
John now knows that Bryan (Steven Myers) is linked to all this he goes in search of him.
Michael is now under the surge of thorn and goes out on samhain in hopes to retrieve his son.
John comes in for rescue and finds out that he knows more than Bryan in all this. And in heart does not tell him…
Have Michael escape,
Act 1 scene 1
Superimpose opening credits with JC’s Halloween theme: cut to EXT. -Night
Open up with point of view shot of Michael’s eyes looking through trees and foliage at the crime scene of Laurie’s decapitated victim she thought was her brother.
The shape watches as EMT’s leave the area.
Begin JC’s The Hedge score:
EMT #1 “like why Halloween you know? Got enough problems in the world today, and now we got this “Michael mania” sweeping across the country” the shape still lurks as the EMT zips up the headless officer’s body bag
EMT #2 “it’s no joke you know this guy has killed over seventy people, this guy won’t die, and he even escaped tonight”!
EMT #1 “Hey! How do you know that? Who says it’s not some other psycho just doing his work huh”?
EMT #2 opens hatched door to ambulance and pulls up stretcher. “Whoever he is, he close. Let’s just hope our boys in blue can get this son of bitch”.
EMT #1 scoffs “yah, hopefully” closes the door. “Hey want to wait inside while I have smoke yah”?
EMT #2 “ha from the way my nights goin, I could have one right about now” he stumbles up to the passenger side.
P.O.V still going:
EMT #1 turns away from the wind and strikes a match; as soon as the shape see’s the light he begins his first step
Begin JC’s the shapes stalks Laurie score:
The Shape slowly trekking his way towards the EMT. The EMT’s smoke drifts into the moonlit sky. P.o.v follows the smoke into the sky as Michael sees it drift by the moon. P.o.v down back to EMT and the Shape gets closer. P.o.v looks down at a rock lying in bloody grass. Michael’s hand reaches out for it and picks it up and focuses on creeping up to his next victim. Michael stops, score stops, hear Michael’s heavy breathing, p.o.v of head tilt.
Voice of Thorn “Kill for him”!
P.o.v of arm rising over his head with rock in hand. Blood drips from rock.
The Shape grunts as he strikes the EMT on the head with the rock and his body falls to the ground. The shape takes a couple steps over the body as blood rushes out off a massive gash on the back of his head. EMT’s hand moves slightly to pick himself back but Michael gives two more grizzly blows to the back of his head grunting each time.
Cut to INT. ambulance –Night
EMT #2 waiting for co-working to get in the van. Radio is playing patsy cline’s three cigarettes in the ashtray.
EMT #2 “yah three cigarettes is how many this guys is smoking, ha, where is he”? He hears the back doors open up again. “Hey, you riding in the back with this one? Huh? Hey Rick! What’s going on now”? The van jumps as if someone got out. “That’s enough of this now” he gets out of the van. Cut to EXT. EMT #2 walking alongside the ambulance-night.
EMT #2 “Hey rick, we gotta go here”. He abruptly stops as he looks in the back to see the bloody bag on the stretcher ripped open with blood all in the interior walls, floor and ceiling. And the headless body of the officer still strapped down, but with his clothes missing, the jumpsuit was gone.
Close up of EMT’s eyes looking all over the scene in horror and begins to step back and stumps the back of his heel over the torso of Rick’s corpses, the back of his head is beaten, bloody and mangled.
Begin the last .37 seconds JC’s the Hedge score:
Birds eye over head view of van, EMT #2 looking around in disbelief and Rick. Pan up and slowly move to view the full moon and fade away.
Scene 2
Superimpose
October 28th
11 years later
JC’s cut it out score: EXT. wide low angel shot of a quite narrow side road were lights break out from the trees-early morning. An FBI Interceptor drives towards camera. Cut away to INT. two men in a car-early morning. The driver flicks his Zippo open and lights a cigarette.
Driver “so let me ask you… what is it, detective John… Tate right”?
John Strode “no (grins) not for a few years now, I’m surprised they haven’t changed it yet… annoyed more or less” he slightly smiles.
Driver “Well detective john strode, what got you into homicide? (Coughs) not everyone’s cup of tea”
John strode “you can just say that on one night, I got used to seeing what we see every day and I want it to end. There are things out there that don’t make this world go round detective riley… I want those things to be locked away” he looks out the window.
Detective Riley “if that’s not an honest answer. Let’s go get some coffee”
John strode “lets, oh and your story”?
Detective riley “it pays well and I don’t have to deal with customers”.
John strode “honest answers”.
Detective riley “honest answers”. Both smile and car drives out of sights into the night. Camera pans up to the star lit sky. Subconscious hint the constellation of thorn in the stars.
Scene 3
Begin Halloween 4: the Return of Michael Myers them reprise 1 min: EXT. Wide center angle shot of a white one story house-morning. Autumn leaves scatter in the choppy wind. Pan to the left of a highway surrounded by meadows and plains of wheat and tall grass protected by a forest by a dark dead forest, the trees skeletal branches stick out like reaching arms. Cut to a big rig driving towards camera through the morning fog. The eighteen wheeler drives by and we barely see a “silver shamrock” logo on the side, following the truck the camera pans to the right revealing the other side of the road. There is a green wooden sign standing posted that reads…
Now Leaving
Haddonfield
In gold paint. Cut to EXT. an old earthly and decaying cemetery, just showing the gothic headstones silhouettes with the sun breaking out behind them.
Begin Alan howarth birth ceremony theme:
Each headstone coming into view, an angel and crosses of all shapes and sizes begin to light up. But one shape steps into view. The boogeyman walks aimlessly towards the camera, only showing his shape, shadow, and silhouette. Fog rolls by the shapes knees. Michael gets closer and larger into frame, his image of 6’ 6” beast under a trance.
Cut to EXT. side road. A couple hiking along a pumpkin patch that runs parallel the highway west towards California, towards… Laurie. The couple walks up to a rest stop were there is an old brown van with a rusty camper parked; the door is open, swinging slightly in the wind.
Girl hiker “hey I got to go bathroom, and then we should walk back yah”?
Boy hiker “sounds good”. She starts to jog towards the van. Steady cam p.o.v of her. She begins to pass by the van when she notices inside the open door keys are on the seat, a ripped and bloody backpack torn on the passenger side and that the driver side window is broken, she gasps in shock.
Begin Halloween 3: Season of the Witch main theme form .00-.25 .07 secs in, she yells.
Girl hiker “Tom”!
Tom “yes love”! She runs towards him in panicking, trying her best to stay calm.
Tom “what’s wrong”? He grabs her shoulders.
Girl hiker “we need to go back and talk to someone, someone is hurt, there’s blood in the car”!
Tom “ok let’s go”. They dash back the trail.
Fade from .25 to Halloween 3: season of witch chariots of pumpkins theme. As the hikers run down the trail camera pans left past the van and towards the back of the rest stop. There are two men in a struggle. The shapes large dark shadow holds and man in a bear hold. We just see the shapes hand over the man’s mouth holding it shut as he pulls the man into the shadows. The man reaches out towards the camera as his hand disappears into the darkness. Cut to low wide angle shot of highway as the old van drives by the camera blowing leaves into frame and off into the distance. Camera shifts to the right towards rest stop, an old dead oak tree comes into the right side of frame with the man hanging from it. End “Chariots of Pumpkins” theme.
Superimpose
October 29th
Scene 4
EXT. Wide angle shot of a large building-afternoon. Russellville High school, the sound of prideful cheerleaders practice routines in the background noise. School bell rings. Cut to INT. A close up of a door opening with rushing teenage students eager to get home. From the crowed two characters walk with each other, a boy and a girl.
Girl “come on you never go out anymore”.
Boy “yeah your right maybe I should let loose now and then, it’s just I don’t know, you know how I feel about drinking and everything”.
Girl “Bryan I’m telling you it well be fun”. Bryan looks at her and smiles.
Bryan “oh how can I resist when I got the prettiest girl in the school practically begging for me to go”? Girl pinches his Bryan’s cheeks and shakes.
Girl “awww you’re too sweet Bryan, got a shit ton of homework to do before then so just so I’m not totally fucked by Halloween I should get going, (Smiles) bye”.
Bryan “Bye Sam”. Sam walks out of frame to the right, Bryan to the left.
Begin JC’s Laurie theme: Cut to EXT. high angle shot overlooking the school parking lot-afternoon. Thunder clouds slowly gather in the sky. Frame lowers and pans left down to students leaving the school. Cut to EXT. a small town park with a few kids on the swing set and teenagers behind trees trying to be sneaky while smoking a joint. Cut to EXT. neighborhood-afternoon. A typical autumn day afternoon shot of a neighborhood with track homes all lined up in a row looking identical, in a picture perfect community. Cut to EXT. a shot of a house across the street. A midsized sedan pulls up to the driveway. Bryan steps out of the car. Frame pans slowly to the right revealing a dark shape of a man’s shoulders and the side of a black brimmed hat. Cut to INT. a shot of inside the house looking out the doors half dome glass window, Bryan walks towards camera reaching out to unlock the door, the man in black is visible from across the street. He stands by a tan and tope van, he’s in a large black trench coat. As Bryan opens the door to the house the van side door slides open and the man in black turns towards the door and takes a step before the camera cuts.
Cut to EXT. neighborhood-afternoon. Sam is walking through her community, her phone rings, and her ring tone is the Chordettes “Mr. Sandman”.
Sam “hey dude”! She says ecstatically, pronouncing it like “Dooood”. Her friend Tammy Atkins is on the other side.
Tammy “sup chica”!?
Sam “just walkin’ home".
Tammy “were are you”?
The tan and tope van turns the corner on the street Sam is on, moving towards her.
Sam “literally like five houses down”.
Tammy “(pouting) come hang out with me”!
Sam “(laughs) see you in a bit Tam”. Hangs up and sighs, takes a deep breath of fresh air as the van slows down about fifty feet behind her. We hear Tammy out of view across the street.
Tammy “hey bitch”! Sam looks up at her with a stern look on her face.
Sam “hey there kids around here”!
Cut to Tammy leaning half way out the door giggling.
Tammy “ha ha yah…I know”!
Cut back to Sam as she smiles and replies sarcastically
Sam “Mhmmmm”. She begins to cross the street. Cut to INT. inside the house looking out to the street, Tammy in frame. Sam starts a slow jog.
Tammy “I’m making popcorn”. The van drives by the house and out of frame as Sam begins to walk up the porch and into the house
Sam “sweet, what have you been up to”? Tammy turns around and closes the door. Cut to INT. house.
Tammy “oh my god, you know that quite guy Bryan Eldridge”? Sam jumps on the coach and lays down.
Sam “yah I convinced him to come over on Halloween”. She leans over to grab the remote and turns on the TV.
Tammy “thank you”!
Sam “why got a crush on him”?
Tammy “no! … I just think he’s cute, that’s all”.
Sam “good, because he’s mine”. She say jokingly says as they both laugh a bit. The microwave bell rings, Tammy turns around to grab the popcorn. Sam flips through some channels.
Sam “quite, why did you say quite”?
Tammy from inside the kitchen “What”. She starts to walk back into the living room and sits down on the recliner.
Sam “why do you think he’s quite”?
Tammy “I don’t know, you know how he kind of kids that keeps to himself in class and stuff, kind of like those home school weirdo’s you know”?
Sam “(boldly)hey be nice,(smiles)but yeah, he really didn’t want to come over, if I remember correctly I think he told me this one time his parents gave Haddonfield a bad wrap or something and he’s discouraged to come over or something”. They both begin to eat popcorn.
Tammy “not surprised”. Sam looks away from the TV at her.
Tammy “people still think he’s out there”.
Sam “who”?
Tammy “Michael… Myers”. She tosses of piece of popcorn at Sam.
Begin Halloween 6: the Curse of Michael Myers Empty Stomach score: o.47
Sam “oh yeah, should have known”
Tammy “they should just wipe this whole town off the map, I mean yeah its old news, I mean do people even talk about this anymore”?
Sam “except us?”
Tammy “(scoffs) you know what I mean”.
Sam “yeah it’s for sure not a good stigma to have around your neck”.
Cut to EXT. wide angle shot of house-dusk. Zoom out
Tammy “this place is a fucking ghost town with its name,”
Street comes into frame
“Now with this economy, might as well leave after graduation, place is falling apart”.
The man in black boots comes into frame
Begin Halloween 6: the Curse of Michael Myers Empty stomach score: 1.14-1.18
Man in black steps out of frame, we hear is steel heel and toed leather boots cling against the road.
Scene 5
EXT. low wide angle shot of an apartment complex-night rain. Thunder clashes. Cut to INT. high angle bedroom shot of couple in bed. John looks over at his wife Molly.
John Strode “okay we can do this, just like last year, we suck it up and…” they together say,
Molly and John “not let it control or lives”.
John Strode “that’s right baby, (sigh), how was your day”?
Molly “(nods) good…” she sits up “I haven’t been thinking about that night as much, the night he came back, what about you”?
John Strode “yes, everyday”. He rubs her thighs. “I remember my mother telling me (clears his throat) that on that night when she was seventeen, I remember her telling me she shot him in the eyes, and how he wouldn’t stop, he would just keep going,”
Begin TB’s Halloween theme 2007: cut to INT. institution of mental health. An old tired woman sits in a metal rusty chair –night. John Strode narrates. “How he was set on fire and still came after her”. Cut to close up of women’s wrist. Patient bracelet reads “Strode. L” cut to shot of window with moonlight beaming brightly into the room. “The fear that ran through my body when I realized he was back for us,” camera zooms in towards window. Cut to EXT. high wide angle shot of hospital grounds, car pulls up on gravel pathway… it’s the van with camper that Michael stole. “the night my mother killed that man,” cut to low angle close up shot of van driver door opening up, the shape slowly gets out as camera pans up, it’s still dark, but the moon lights up just enough to show Michael in a brown withered, battle damaged garage mechanic jumpsuit, it’s very old and dirty, stained in blood that’s been clotted. It has burns and stab wounds throughout his torso area; he wields a large rusted kitchen knife, painted in dried blood. John’s voice begins to choke up, “she told me she watched him burn”! Michael’s mask comes into frame. His mask is beaten, slightly decayed, burn holes and tears on the upper right corner of the forehead and lower left jaw, some long patchy dead facial hair sticks out. His white mask stained with dirt and smoke, minor burned latex are bubbled around his cheeks and eyes, his hair is tousled on the sides and slicked back on top, the hair is dirty uneven and burnt in some from the fire, and the stains of his bloody tears run down his cold white, pale face, from when he was shot that night long ago. He begins to walk towards the building out of frame. Cut to low angle shot of the shapes legs walking away from the camera, Michael’s full body is in frame, he stops in the middle of the lawn, “I don’t want to be haunted my whole life thinking he’s going to comeback”. The shape looks up to the left at Laurie’s window, camera pans left and shifts up to the room while zooming in, we hear Michael breathing threw the worn down mask, hold shot of window with Michael breathing. End Halloween theme: cut to black with deep piano keys.
Scene 6
Superimpose
October 30th