I’m Responsive
From the comments, a while back:
Now the question is whether we start a petition asking you publish Vampire Hitler
Well, it’s not finished as such. Hence why I’m still working on it.
However, I will confess that it contains the following things:
- a race war between the incoming Aryan vampires and the city’s native vampires, which are largely black,
- a jive-talking number one soul brother vampire who got turned in the 1970s,
- an order of vampire-hunting rabbis, including one shot with all of them walking towards the camera in slow motion, their long black coats fluttering behind them,
- an archvillain who has a cane tipped with a sharpened diamond, which he uses as a weapon,
- a RENEGADE COP, LIVING ON THE EDGE,
- and a chainsaw shaped like a Star of David.
And yes, it was originally meant as a serious project for a direct-to-video distribution model. The conversation that spawned the concept essentially went as follows:
ME: Okay, so if we wanted to do a straight-to-DVD project, what would be a good concept?
OTHER GUY: Has to be horror, of course.
ME: Right, but it has to be good horror. High concept horror. What’s a good bad guy?
OTHER GUY: …Hitler?
ME: Good, but it needs something more. What’s worse than Hitler?
OTHER GUY: …Hitler and he’s a ninja?
ME: That’s not a horror movie, though.
OTHER GUY: Hitler and he’s a vampire?
ME: YES.
October 9th, 2007 la 4:33 pm
- and a chainsaw shaped like a Star of David.
I can’t think of a proper response to that (or this spec in general), except to declare that it is correct. Simply and purely correct. Thank you.
October 9th, 2007 la 5:40 pm
This movie must be produced. Because even if you couldn’t keep the story going for the 90-120 minutes of a direct to video shoot, the trailer that included the elements you listed above would be the Best Thing Ever.
October 9th, 2007 la 11:05 pm
I liked it better when you made fun of comics and petitioned to write The Legion.
Now you’re just kind of dull.
October 9th, 2007 la 11:06 pm
I’m weeping on the inside, believe me.
October 10th, 2007 la 11:39 am
Just create a bunch of trailers promoting movie ideas like this. Like what they did for Grindhouse.
That way you don’t have to kill yourself over trying to create dialogue around a scene that would necessitate a chainsaw shaped like the star of david.
October 10th, 2007 la 9:04 pm
Star of David….
Chainsaw.
That is as awesome as it is insane and logically improbable.
Thank you sir.
October 11th, 2007 la 1:37 pm
Now, would the teeth of the chainsaw be shaped like a star of david, or the body of the chainsaw?
October 12th, 2007 la 6:00 pm
And here I thought Bubba-Ho-Tep was unadulterated brilliance. This movie: it must be made.