When a zombie outbreak incites a racist massacre in her small Southern town, a pregnant teen must fight the undead – and her own family – to reunite with the child’s black father.
Categories: Horror
9 reviews
I think people on this thread are getting caught up in the theme or 'meaning' of the concept, and forgetting about the bare necessities of a story.
You can't write from a theme, but you can have a theme naturally grow out of a story. Point is, you first need to figure out what the story is going to be, then see what the theme is and enhance it.
Is this a story about a character doing battle with the undead in a Zombie apocalypse?
Or,
Is this a story of a MC fighting racism?
Having also lived in the South, I agree with Richiev. The concept/setting for the story is outdated, so yesteryear.
Not that race relations aren't still complicated. ?They are. ?Sometime less complicated, sometimes more, but always complicated. And not just in South, but everywhere in the United States.
Maybe the concept could work if it is conceived as a metaphor, an allegory. ?But there's no way of knowing from the logline. I would have to read the script. ?But if it's being conceived as an exercise in pure, unallegorical mayhem, horror for its own sake ?it's going to step on so many political, social and ethnic landmines on the way to making a movie ?out of the script-- how many production companies would be willing to incur the risks?
fwiw
Having also lived in the South, I agree with Richiev. The concept/setting for the story is outdated, so yesteryear.
Not that race relations aren't still complicated. ?They are. ?Sometime less complicated, sometimes more, but always complicated. And not just in South, but everywhere in the United States.
Maybe the concept could work if it is conceived as a metaphor, an allegory. ?But there's no way of knowing from the logline. I would have to read the script. ?But if it's being conceived as an exercise in pure, unallegorical mayhem, horror for its own sake ?it's going to step on so many political, social and ethnic landmines on the way to making a movie ?out of the script-- how many production companies would be willing to incur the risks?
fwiw