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Miss Macabre : You are Jamie Lee Curtis. You have become pretty fed up of movies and want to start your own horror show on TV. You watch several Masters of Horror episodes and have a brainstorm of adapting short stories/works into a TV series, which would have episodes of 1 hour each. Which short stories/literary works would you choose, and why?
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Seeing as I am fed up with the current movies coming out, I would choose to have the episodes of my TV series use very little on screen gore. Doing away with theatrics, I would let the stories take precedence and present them in such a way that the majority of blood, gore and violence will be done off screen. I find this can have a much better effect than making a blood bath anyway.
Having starred in movies like
Freaky Friday and
Christmas with the Kranks; and given my choice of favourite movies (
Spaceballs,
This is Spinal Tap) and TV shows (
Fawlty Towers,
The Office and
Extras)I clearly have quite a sense of humour and would like that to carry over to my television show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SNBO84YFWg
My pilot episode would be as follows:
Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat: http://www.1fiction.com/texts/poe_blackcat.txt A haunting story about a mysterious black cat. The story can be filmed as the confession tape of a young veterinarian, who is laid off during the current economic crisis. This can be intertwined with flash blacks from the goings on. Any violence (especially cruelty to animals) would be done off screen or through confession scenes to survive censors and let the story take the lead; with only a small amount of gore during the final reveal. I chose The Black Cat because the story can hold an audience’s attention and it is an eerie tale with a great ending that I feel will make the audience feel satisfied when the credits roll. The ending is also ironic and Jamie Lee Curtis has an excellent sense of humour and would understand that. It can also be easily modernized for a TV audience and it is short enough to fit the time constraints.
If this pilot episode went well I would choose to adapt stories like Murders in the Rue Morgue because a murderous Orang-utan is hilarious but wouldn't just be adapting Poe of course.