A cheating husband leaves a meeting from his mistress with a nasty hickey, and him trying to cover it up before his wife gets home becomes a real pain in the neck.
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A cheating husband leaves a meeting from his mistress with a nasty hickey, and him trying to cover it up before his wife gets home becomes a real pain in the neck.
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I get that this is probably going to be a vampire film but the “real pain in the neck” doesn’t add anything to the logline. A logline isn’t designed to encourage audiences to see the film the way that a tagline is (“Cheating is a real pain in the neck”) – it’s supposed to give a clear summary of the film in?one sentence that makes someone want to read your screenplay – inciting incident, goal, stakes.
Inciting incident – the hickey – that’s there but if his mistress is actually a vampire then maybe that needs to be included here so the reader knows what sort of film they’re looking at. Something that’s potentially a large part of the film shouldn’t be subtle or require guesswork in the logline.
Is his goal to keep his affair a secret? If so how does the vampire thing fit in? If his goal is not to turn into a vampire then how does his wife fit in. What happens if his wife finds out? What are the stakes?
I think the vampire element needs to be clarified as that’s the bit that is unclear and makes this logline a bit confusing. Once that thread is ironed out I think you’ve got an interesting logline.
Hope this helps.
The ?real pain in the neck? is ambiguous. Try to think in filmic terms. How would you film that.
It currently reads like a comedy.
“When his mistress gives him a hickey, a cheating husband has two hours to hide it before his wife gets home.”
(This does seem like kind of a thin premise for a film, is it really that hard to put on a turtleneck sweater?)
What makes this a horror film?
I just fixed it.? Now it reads: ?A cheating husband does something gruesome to himself before his wife gets home to cover up the evidence of the affair he just had.
This sounds like a comedy short, not a horror feature, because it takes five minutes to cover it with makeup and you put a pun in there.