Logline... Tuesday?... Wait, what day is it?

Oh, God. I'm so tired. Jayme graduated and had a birthday last week (that's my girl) so I missed an entry. I also started two new jobs and have been moving concurrently. I'm exhausted and depressed (bordering on mania). Also broke.

But I'm back. Doesn't that mean something?

Title: Our Dead Cat
Log line: The death of a twenty year old family pet sends a seemingly perfect suburban family spiraling wildly out of control. To keep the unit together, the family plots their revenge on the person who accidentally ran over the pet: Bill, a half blind, 50-year-old widower. A suburban murder plot ensues.
Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Suspense

How about a bonus entry? Just to make up for lost time...

Title: The Home
Log line: When his wife passes and his family deems him unfit to live on his own, 72-year-old Taylor Burns is sent to live at Duke's Run Retirement Home. When old people begin dying of gory, mysterious circumstances, Taylor must put his skills as a retired detective to good use to find the serial killer. A slasher film with a geriatric twist.
Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror

More thrilling loglines next Monday!

Made Up Logline Monday #4

Gang,
I finished a new draft of Fear of God (waaaay too long at 140 pages, but can be cut down to a manageable length). Started a newish script today (I wrote a sweet opening, anyway). A balls out action movie about ghosts that I'm very excited about. Now, for today's sweet spontaneous logline...

Title: Phantasmagoria

Logline: When his twin brother dies, an emotionally damage young boy sneaks away to his grave. When he gets there, he finds a perfectly carved set of stairs leading down the open grave. He follows them down to Phantasmagoria, a cavernous, metropolitan world beneath the earth that is occupied by every child's greatest fears. He will find his brother and bring him back to life, or die with him.

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Children's

I also bought Drive Angry and Last Action Hero on Blu-ray today. Hooray for schlocky thrills in hi-definition!

Made Up Logline Monday #2

Updates:

1. Nearly finished with new draft of slasher film. It's at 140 pages right now. If anything, I've probably made it too big and bloated but that's okay-- God invented editing for a reason. Still, a part of me wants to make the most epic slasher film ever, in the history of slasher films. Sprawling, big, stylish, and character driven, like a Leone western. No one else wants that, it seems, so I will have to balance a tight page number with that sort of scope.

2. I'm thinking about applying online for a position as a script reader. That would be an ace gig.

3. Watched American Graffitti today. What an awesome movie.

4. The Logline...

Title: Late Registration

Logline: A high school student arrives at his new private school late, only to find the campus utterly abandoned. Stranded with night a few hours away, he must explore the labyrinthine corridors of the school to figure out who or what brought him there and why.

Genre: Horror

It's good because the hook is creepy and there's a mystery around it. It's bad because maintaining that level of mystery would be hard as fuck without introducing more characters, which would in turn kill the isolation and tension. Also, none of that "It's all in his head" bullshit. I still feel burned by Identity. Imply it, you goon, don't just explicitly say it! NO ONE WANTS THAT!

Also, I've been listening to a lot of Kanye West lately. Have you noticed?

Powering down....