Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

TITLE: Iron Lung

GENRE: Horror

SUBGENRE: Psychological Horror, Existential Horror

FORMAT: Roughly 80 minutes

BASIC PROMPT: Takes place almost entirely in a small submarine, very isolating. Depicts the Main Character's slow descent into madness before pulling themselves from the brink and reaching surface once again(could be subject to change and simply have them be trapped and not escape which would follow the themes more closely in essentially being left at the bottom and forgotten under the waves, but would be much more nihilistic). The ocean itself is the main horror. Lots of submechanophobia. The ocean has zero regard for you. In any other scenario like being lost in the woods or in the desert, you still have your legs and can still see and move but the ocean does care that we are not adapted to it and that every second that we spend in it without a man made creation leaves us completely at its mercy. The ocean also doesn't care about our understanding of it and it also doesn't care about our monuments. Like with photos of submechnophobia and you see the different great things that we've built and no matter however big or small, sentimental or otherwise, you see them beneath the water and there is this destitute sense of something being forgotten. No matter what level of sentimentality we apply to something, the ocean just does not care and it creates a strange sort of liminal space that while we are looking at it and we wish for there to be some sense of cherishing or memory or simply something sacred, there is none to be found. Roughly 9% of species in the ocean are logged with roughly 20% of the ocean mapped, which means that 80% of the single largest body on the planet is a complete mystery as are many of the events that take place on or within it. The Mariana Trench is so deep that you can take the entirety of Mount Everest, put it at the bottom, and you would still have a mile to go before you reached surface. The largest structure on land and the ocean will take it all and bury it so deep, we would never even know that it had done so in the first place. It is wrong in every sense that something should be wrong, it's inhumane, it's unreasonable, and it's uncaring. The ocean is infinite nothingness and it doesn't even allow the curtesy of being able to see the infinite and absolute abyss. This is the horror that Iron Lung is built off of. The character gets trapped phenomenally deep underwater with a limited supply of oxygen and is slowly going mad from the limited supply of food, of water, of space, of light, and air while also going mad from the isolation and hallucinations that start to plague them and the horrors relating to the cruel and uncaring ocean where things are forgotten.