Things you think should be in the movie (regardless of plot)

A debate about killing zombies between two or three guys from what they've seen in movies.
Nathan: "Just stab them in the heart...like in Buffy"
Josh: "Buffy kills vampires, mong"
Chris: "What about shooting them in the head like in Resident Evil?"
Nathan: "Yeah, great. See that shotgun over there? No? Yeah, that's because we don't fucking have one"
Josh: "What about light...like um..a big torch...or daylight?
Chris: "Tell you what, we'll call Commisioner Gordon and ask if he can direct the Batsignal at the angry, dead bastards at my front door. And while we're at it, we'll tell him it doesn't matter because it's 3 in the afternoon and it's doing fuck all."
Josh: "Hey, do you think that if we played Michael Jackson that they'd suddenly break into a routine? By the way, why was he a werewolf and not a zombie?"
Nathan: "I've always wondered that. Maybe he's some sort of leader...you know, cause he can still be a human and all. And like go to the pictures..."
Josh: "Yeah, he's like the stealth department of the undead, innit?"
Chris: "...If I die after this conversation, I will seriously come back and finger both your mums"
Nathan: "What about setting them on fire?"
Josh: "What movie's that in?"
Nathan: "Um...this one?"

I've really only seen them in computer games, but screaming or 'screeching' zombies scare me so much. Like the ones in Half Life 2 that run along the rooftops. That kind of thing should definitely should be included. Moaning has been used so much it isn't really effective anymore. A blood-curdling scream of a mad freak charging at you would make the zombies especially scary.


My friend used to run at me while screaming at me (using an extremely good impression of the zombies from the legend of zelda game) and I ran like the wind. So, I know it will work



I watched Planet Terror recently, and the best Horror elements were the things that really pushed it, that were surprising and gross. Pus and bloody goo bursting from an abscess over a doctor's face, that kind of thing =). There never was a good zombie flick that was family friendly, after all. Don't be afraid to go too far, that's what I would say.

I would like to see - when the virus (or whatever) is still spreading, a scene where a user is watching a clip online of a news report about the zombies, and for the shot to be over the person's shoulder, then as the clip they are watching comes to an end for the camera to zoom into the video window on the screen and for it to fill the screen and the action carry on from there, like the POV has jumped straight to the action. Kinda like when they go through panes of glass or TV sets in films or adverts. EDIT: Just watched paper's description of the storyline, and I think she's describing the same thing that I have in my head, that I tried to explain above haha.

Another idea (seeing people mention zombie dogs) is that in reverse the dogs could be the nemesis of zombies - the one fear that they have is dogs, showing some emotion through the man's best friend idea.

I think change of pace is something that can scare me, like if you saw a zombie walking slowly towards you, and speeding up to a run faster than you'd expect so that you don't have time to turn and run.

Also the double bluff of an appearance of a zombie tends to work well - as in the BBC blogs someone mentions how the first scare is normally just the character's best friend, but then to have an actual zombie turn up for the follow up scare 2 seconds later is quite effective I feel.

EDIT: Just thought, it would be good to have some atmospheric shots of known YouTubers being 'vacant' from their normal vlogging locations - as in the camera is still running, but the chair is empty. Similar to the way that at the start of 28 Days Later the lack of people in London City Centre built atmosphere, the lack of vloggers (with ambient or no background noise) in their normal situations could do something similar.

Also, just thought after watching the storyline - if you wanted to make the transition between no-one taking the zombie movement seriously to it becoming hysteria, you could have a report of someone being admitted to hospital with 'savage animal wounds' (which is a zombie who hasn't turned quite yet, or doesn't turn at all? Perhaps one of the main characters) which then gets reported to the news, then realised that the zombie rumours are true

stuartrace wrote:Another idea (seeing people mention zombie dogs) is that in reverse the dogs could be the nemesis of zombies - the one fear that they have is dogs, showing some emotion through the man's best friend idea.

I think change of pace is something that can scare me, like if you saw a zombie walking slowly towards you, and speeding up to a run faster than you'd expect so that you don't have time to turn and run.

I do like the second idea. However, I think films (Resident Evil, for instance) have already "done" dogs. I think we should use other animals, preferably in zombie (or at least man-eating) form. The birds in RE3, for instance, was the best part of the film. An idea that springs to mind:

Zombie Horses
The group are running through the streets, trying to sneak their way past the infected to X location. The leader turns the corner to see a horse (or three) head down nibbling on the guts of a human body. Gasping, the leader pushes the person behind them back and themselves and the other against the wall. Hearing the gasp, a horse looks up, blood on his lips (glucose/syrupy stuff, animal friendly of course) turning its head to looks around, pricking its ears, as it licks its lips. The person the leader pushed looks at the panting leader and asks "What is it?" to which the leader turns their head and delivers the killer deadpan line "Zombie horses." - Of course you'd need to find someone with a horse, and someone around to check its welfare, but all good zombie movies need their unique features =)


I probably thought about these things in too much detail, but hopefully they will have a scrap of usefulness.



If people are using online videos to still communicate after the shit hits the fan rather than in real time, it is probably because staying still by a computer for any length of time would get you killed and for that reason find it hard to be online at the same time - so in some way, the zombies must be able to tell where you are if you stay in the same place for too long. If not, it might be nice for NY and London to webcam chat eventually, to link their efforts.


# Weapons
Making the terrible assumption that when things get crazy, the american team will be able to get their hands on at least one gun, it might be nice for them to show the UKers their weapon/s while asking what they have, to which London's reply is "A piece of wood...with a nail sticking out of it."
If that is the case, I'd like to see the person with holding the gun have their arm bitten into/off so that they lose the weapon (after holding onto it for a while) before they can even fire it, while the piece of wood with a nail sticking out of it manages to kill several zombies. The more bizarre the weapon (a lawnmower, for example) then the more effective it should be in a fight. And their should be lots of imaginative zombie deaths, as well as a bizarre mix of zombies (some that spit diseased slime, some that climb walls, many that run and scream, etc).


# Lead
Have a strong female lead. Have the men whimper and cry (for a change) when things starting getting too hot and have a female take charge. Smash those maidenthatneedsrescuing stereotypes pls. But have them emerge naturally as the lead, not forced as the central character you follow - perhaps have them come through when the central guy is killed off and everyone else is shitting themselves without his leadership. And have her kill lots of zombies



I think the people running the internet zombie movie have good head on them, so as long as they look to go for originality rather than rehashing old ideas, seen as they can't really compete budget wise with the big guys, it should be incredibly awesome. Good luck

Just had another idea to link London and NYC groups - the characters could have had a YouTube meet (or not YouTube if it's another anonymous video site obviously) where someone from either city could have taken the zombieness back over the ocean with them...

Drat Vanity I like your idea on the unconventional weapons, that would make a good twist! See how many things in the home can be useful weapons!

We need the Zombie Survival Guide in it, I have a copy.

I didn't think of this, but it's good.
Since zombies are dead they have an advantage to them. They can hold up heavy things until their arms just fall off because they dont' feel the pain in their muscles like humans, So the zombies could work together.
That actually wasn't what I wanted to say.

I think there should be a scene where there are people on the roof, or high ground, thinking their safe. So since the zombies can't climb, they just start pileing up ontop of each other until they make a ramp, by then the people are surrounded and die.
just a thought.

I had a little idea that came to me when I was just looking through the forum. Maybe about halfway through the film we could have a v-log section. Basically, you start with one dude on the screen. That screen then splits into two, with two vlogs going on at once. Then that splits into four, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, etcetera. Have them all talking and moving at once, talking about the zombie outburst. Maybe get a few of them in different languages as well, get them at different speeds. I think it would add to the feeling of confusion.

Oh, and make sure one of the main characters carries a large hammer. Hammers are cool.

As I've said before - the including of a character death at the end of the film in the countryside, leaning against a tree, smoking a cigarette as the sun sets - the sky orange and blood red in the distance, but dark blue with a scattering of stars overhead...
Bleeding to death, the character looks up at the sky and says: "This is good, isnt it?" - a shot of him sitting on the ground against the tree - a sillhouette against the bright light.
The cigarette drops from his mouth.
Blackout.
End.

An iconic image, a very powerful way to end the movie.

we should have jeremy kyle in a room with a load of zombies and he's going
"get a job!"

Fuzileer wrote:As I've said before - the including of a character death at the end of the film in the countryside, leaning against a tree, smoking a cigarette as the sun sets - the sky orange and blood red in the distance, but dark blue with a scattering of stars overhead...
Bleeding to death, the character looks up at the sky and says: "This is good, isnt it?" - a shot of him sitting on the ground against the tree - a sillhouette against the bright light.
The cigarette drops from his mouth.
Blackout.
End.

An iconic image, a very powerful way to end the movie.

sounds a bit gay...

how about a man going
"damn, i knew i should of got that life insurance"

iHaveNoGoodUsername wrote:

Fuzileer wrote:As I've said before - the including of a character death at the end of the film in the countryside, leaning against a tree, smoking a cigarette as the sun sets - the sky orange and blood red in the distance, but dark blue with a scattering of stars overhead...
Bleeding to death, the character looks up at the sky and says: "This is good, isnt it?" - a shot of him sitting on the ground against the tree - a sillhouette against the bright light.
The cigarette drops from his mouth.
Blackout.
End.

An iconic image, a very powerful way to end the movie.

sounds a bit gay...

how about a man going
"damn, i knew i should of got that life insurance"

Oh yeah, as though that'll be suitable. And how is my idea gay? If it was gay I'd have camp brazilians skipping about in skin-clad clothing, rainbows overhead and dorothy and the wizard of oz singing merrily down the yellow-bloody-brick-road hand in hand with big-gay-Al strutting his stuff on a YMCA disco dance floor.

Fuzileer wrote:

iHaveNoGoodUsername wrote:

Fuzileer wrote:As I've said before - the including of a character death at the end of the film in the countryside, leaning against a tree, smoking a cigarette as the sun sets - the sky orange and blood red in the distance, but dark blue with a scattering of stars overhead...
Bleeding to death, the character looks up at the sky and says: "This is good, isnt it?" - a shot of him sitting on the ground against the tree - a sillhouette against the bright light.
The cigarette drops from his mouth.
Blackout.
End.

An iconic image, a very powerful way to end the movie.

sounds a bit gay...

how about a man going
"damn, i knew i should of got that life insurance"

Oh yeah, as though that'll be suitable. And how is my idea gay? If it was gay I'd have camp brazilians skipping about in skin-clad clothing, rainbows overhead and dorothy and the wizard of oz singing merrily down the yellow-bloody-brick-road hand in hand with big-gay-Al strutting his stuff on a YMCA disco dance floor.

I wouldn't get irked, mate. I thought your idea would look great; I can kinda see the vision in my head just now.
Unfortunately, the idiot who can't come up with a user-name has offered complete and utter shite on this site from the beginning and continues to pump out "funny" ideas that sway somewhere between Will Ferrell and latter-day Eddie Murphy.
Ignore him, I like it. Problem being, is anyone actually looking in here and thinking "that's a great idea.."

GuiLow wrote:

Fuzileer wrote:

iHaveNoGoodUsername wrote:

Fuzileer wrote:As I've said before - the including of a character death at the end of the film in the countryside, leaning against a tree, smoking a cigarette as the sun sets - the sky orange and blood red in the distance, but dark blue with a scattering of stars overhead...
Bleeding to death, the character looks up at the sky and says: "This is good, isnt it?" - a shot of him sitting on the ground against the tree - a sillhouette against the bright light.
The cigarette drops from his mouth.
Blackout.
End.

An iconic image, a very powerful way to end the movie.

sounds a bit gay...

how about a man going
"damn, i knew i should of got that life insurance"

Oh yeah, as though that'll be suitable. And how is my idea gay? If it was gay I'd have camp brazilians skipping about in skin-clad clothing, rainbows overhead and dorothy and the wizard of oz singing merrily down the yellow-bloody-brick-road hand in hand with big-gay-Al strutting his stuff on a YMCA disco dance floor.

I wouldn't get irked, mate. I thought your idea would look great; I can kinda see the vision in my head just now.
Unfortunately, the idiot who can't come up with a user-name has offered complete and utter shite on this site from the beginning and continues to pump out "funny" ideas that sway somewhere between Will Ferrell and latter-day Eddie Murphy.
Ignore him, I like it. Problem being, is anyone actually looking in here and thinking "that's a great idea.."

yes, i personally look here every single day. And yes, i see alot of great ideas that i write into the piece of script i'm doing. Ya'll could do that too.

my ideas are
and i have a plot
its a kid with no one on his own to survive
and with his video camera he does daily recordings of his life while hes alive
ideas-what happened that day. example:electricity goes out
-he goes to park to band up with his friends(something goes wrong)
-loses his dog and never finds him again somethin like that