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Posted: 2018-10-26T09:23:40+10:00 In:

A driver intent on picking up and murdering a hitch-hiker picks up a hitch-hiker intent on murdering a driver.

A driver intent on picking up and murdering a hitch-hiker picks up a hitch-hiker intent on murdering a driver.
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    1. Singularity

      Nineteen words.
      High concept.
      Fits the genre.
      Bonus point: could be made on a low budget?

      It works for me:? I want to read the script.

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    2. Singularity

      There was a “Masters of Horror ” Episode that used this concept. It was called “Pick Me Up” Season 1 Episode 11

      That being said, yours is different because in the Masters of horror version, You had a serial killer who drives around looking for people to give rides to, then kills them. Then you had a serial killer who hitchhikes and kills the drivers.

      However, what makes your story different is that, in the Masters of Horror episode, There was a stranded woman who gets picked up by the serial killer and she gets caught in between the two serial killers, The driver, and the Hitchiker killer. Because both want to be the one to kill her.

      So the story is told from the potential victim’s point of view as the two serial killers fight over her.

      Anyway, yours is different enough, but you should know it’s out there

      Good luck with this.

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    3. Singularity

      btw, if you have never watched any of “The Masters of Horror” shows, they are very good. I definitely?recommend?watching them if you can find them.

      My favorite is called “Incident on and off a mountain road” And it involves a woman whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
      She is stalked and attacked by a “Friday the Thirteenth, Jason” type character. Who has set all kinds of traps in the area where she is being chased.

      However, she has just left her abusive husband who was a survivalist. While he was very abusive he taught her how to survive and she uses those skills in a cat and mouse like game with the killer; each getting the upper hand at different points of the story.

      The lead actress was great, her name was Bree Turner. It was Directed by the guy who directed a horror movie called Phantasm.

      There is even a bit of an ironic twist at the end.

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    4. Logliner

      Cool. This could work as a comedy as well.

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    5. Uberwriter

      Yep. Nailed it.

      No need for a why, who they are, inciting incident. You have told the story which is exactly what a logline is supposed to do.

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