Side Project - Anthology Horror Film
As an outside of studies project I have decided to begin working on making my own anthology style horror film. These types of horror films are basically a compilation of different short stories often linked together by a wrap-around story. Numerous films have been made like this, often based on short stories by Stephen King; films of this sub-genre include Creepshow, Creepshow 2, Tales from the Darkside, Cat's Eye, Twilight Zone:The Movie and Tale from the Hood. I find these films to generally be more fun and interesting as there are a variety of different themes and ideas and also tend to have a more humourous and comic approach then your typical horror film.Here is a trailer from Creepshow and descriptions of the different tales that make up the film:


Wrap-Around Story: Stern father Stan gets angry when he finds his young son Billy reading a grisly horror comic book entitled "Creepshow". After arguing with his wife and slapping Billy, Stan throws the comic in the garbage. A skeletal figure appears outside Billy's window, the "Creep", who hosts the stories in the comic book.

Father's Day: Years ago, Nathan Grantham was killed on Father's Day when his daughter Bedelia bashed him in the head with a marble ashtray as he screamed for his cake. Years later, as his relatives get together for their annual dinner on Father's Day, Nathan returns from the grave for revenge.

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill: A dimwitted backwoods hick thinks a newly-discovered meteorite will provide enough money to pay off the remaining $200 of his bank loan. Instead, he finds himself overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that arrives in the meteorite.

Something to Tide You Over: A coldblooded TV producer stages a terrible fate for his unfaithful wife, Becky and her lover, Harry Wentworth by burying them up to their necks on the beach, below the high tide line. But the tide sometimes has a way of bringing things back...

The Crate: A mysterious, extremely lethal creature is unwittingly freed from its crate in this supenseful and gory monster story. College professor Henry Northrup sees the creature as a way to rid himself of his emotionally abusive wife, Wilma.

They're Creeping Up On You!: A cruel, miserly and ruthless businessman, Upson Pratt is disgusted by germs and insects, but finds himself helpless to stop them when Mr. White, his put-upon employee, allows his apartment to be overrun by endless hordes of cockroaches.

Wrap-Around Story: The film ends with the boy's father experiencing neck pains, transmitted by a voodoo doll ordered from the comic by the young boy, Billy, whom we see being chastised by his father at the beginning of the film.

I have begun researching and concepting stories like this of my own and hope to begin writing a script soon.