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I've been thinking about ways you could twist the traditional slasher movie formula, and I feel the simplest solution is to treat the monsters as the good guys.
You get a big cast with classic horror monsters. (Maybe they're all different kinds of monsters, maybe they're all the same basic kind of monster but with distinct personalities and features going for them. Like a cast full of vampires, but one of them looks like Nosferatu and another looks like they walked out of an Anne Rice or Stephanie Meyer book.) They all get sympathetic traits and characterizations. They all get trapped together in some kind of creepy, remote area, closed circle style. And some monster-hating maniac(s) is out to kill them, forcing them to work together in order to survive.
So once you get past the basic premise of "monsters team up to survive a slasher" I feel like there's a couple ways you could take this.
-The slasher could be an absurdly well-equipped monster hunter or a group of monster hunters. Either super-badasses like Blade and Buffy or mostly normal people who just spend too much time thinking about how to kill monsters. Or maybe they're a monster themselves who's uniquely suited for killing the good guys. Like a sun elemental who really wants to kill vampires for some reason.
-The setting could be like your traditional creepy castle or whatever, but I think it'd be fun if it was an evil government facility, similar to Cabin in the Woods or SCP or the Bureau of Normalicy from Doom Patrol.
-Elements of a heist or prison escape movie, with the monsters using their unique powers and skill to figure out how to escape while still being outclassed.
-Monster girls! All the monsters are also ladies, and you can also do a movie about monster gals being monster pals. Possibly lesbians as well.
I've been thinking about ways you could twist the traditional slasher movie formula, and I feel the simplest solution is to treat the monsters as the good guys.
You get a big cast with classic horror monsters. (Maybe they're all different kinds of monsters, maybe they're all the same basic kind of monster but with distinct personalities and features going for them. Like a cast full of vampires, but one of them looks like Nosferatu and another looks like they walked out of an Anne Rice or Stephanie Meyer book.) They all get sympathetic traits and characterizations. They all get trapped together in some kind of creepy, remote area, closed circle style. And some monster-hating maniac(s) is out to kill them, forcing them to work together in order to survive.
So once you get past the basic premise of "monsters team up to survive a slasher" I feel like there's a couple ways you could take this.
-The slasher could be an absurdly well-equipped monster hunter or a group of monster hunters. Either super-badasses like Blade and Buffy or mostly normal people who just spend too much time thinking about how to kill monsters. Or maybe they're a monster themselves who's uniquely suited for killing the good guys. Like a sun elemental who really wants to kill vampires for some reason.
-The setting could be like your traditional creepy castle or whatever, but I think it'd be fun if it was an evil government facility, similar to Cabin in the Woods or SCP or the Bureau of Normalicy from Doom Patrol.
-Elements of a heist or prison escape movie, with the monsters using their unique powers and skill to figure out how to escape while still being outclassed.
-Monster girls! All the monsters are also ladies, and you can also do a movie about monster gals being monster pals. Possibly lesbians as well.