Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27711289-20191111001302/@comment-28396600-20200213071534

I had an idea for a fun little video experiment:I might eventually work on a rather unconventional and unique horror short film that really pushes the boundaries of what horror can be.

It will appear to be a cute little kid's show about puppet cats. Unlike most horror videos, there will be no gore, death, or paranormal elements whatsoever. The content of the video will be as innocent as The Aristocats. What makes it scary would be the way all of it is presented.

I will literally make the freakiest looking cat puppets I can possibly come up with. Aside from the very outlandish and nightmarish appearances, the characters will also move in very uncanny valley-type ways.

The voices of the cats will be downright bone chilling, scary music that rivals that infamous track from Psycho during the shower murder sequence will be playing in the background, the sound effects will be very unnerving, it will be completely devoid of any humor or color (filmed in a very dark room), the setting will seem very freaky (my Grandpa's basement is the perfect filming location for this), the characters will always sound unnaturally angry whenever they talk, everything will be completely random which will add an eerie dream-like quality to the viewing experience, and trippy special effects are everywhere.

The entire video would feel like you are watching a child's nightmare unfold right before your eyes, because that's the way nightmares often are in real life. Most of my nightmares don't have any murder or monsters, they just simply give off an overall eerie and unnerving vibe.

My main inspiration however is a poem called Jabberwocky that terrified me as a child. The beginning of the poem went like this:

"'Twas brillig, And the Slithy Toves, Did gire and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the Borogroves, And the Mome Raths outgrabe".

The reason I was so spooked by that story is because of how random and bizarre it sounded. What the hell are Mome Raths? Personally I always believed that they were terrifying humanoid goblin-like creatures with fangs who lurk in a dark forest called The Outgrabe at night and kidnap children.

In this current state of the horror genre where stupid shock films loaded with unnecessary blood and gore are coming out all the time, I feel as though my fellow horror nerds would find such a vastly different approach that completely avoids all clichés whatsoever to be very refreshing. Who knows, that might even have the potential to go viral.