Column Chronicles: Unique horror concepts for TV movies

Unique horror concepts for TV movies

Frank Cotolo
February 25, 2016

The SyFy Channel on cable TV systems everywhere, has become so popular over the past few years that it began producing its own feature films for exclusive broadcasting. This opened a huge path for science-fiction writers to work on new projects and now the library of SyFy Channel movies is growing and ever hungry for new ideas.

Here are some of the recent ideas I have had for SyFy exclusive features.

Attack of the Dust People
Something - we never know exactly what - causes large clumps of dust in homes across America (or any other country you wish to use) to take the shape of the person (s) sleeping regularly in the bed. There's one twist: the Dust People have a craving for human blood.

Bicycle Cyclops
A scientist attempting to design a bike that can go at high speeds with only leg power tests a mockup model and has a terrible accident that somehow (it is never explained) kills every part of his body but his left eye, which melds into the bike's distorted pieces and grows into a huge Nashbar CR4 Carbon Road Bike with 11 speeds, which terrorizes the city.

Porn Predators
A group of radical people (men, women, mixed, whatever) decides to take their personal moral principles into their own hands, hunting people that act in legal porn films to murder them, convinced that ridding the planet of these people will create a planet free from genital odor.

Gluten Gargantuan
A scientific experiment to produce a laboratory-created protein composite found in wheat and related grains goes awry, so to speak, and a pound of dough rises to the size of a dinosaur, becoming a deadly but chewy textured creature that, if not stopped, could destroy mankind.

Satan's Spray Paint
The ruler of Hell comes to the surface with a new plan to make mankind extinct. Disguised as B. Alza Bubb, the owner of a hobby store in a dense city, the don of destitution arms poor street kids with spray bottles containing infected human blood. As the kids deface city property by spraying curse words on buildings, the disease in the paint becomes airborne and the rare disease spreads quickly.

Zombies With Xylophones
This light-hearted horror tale follows a musical group consisting of zombies as the group slowly turns into a Rolling Stones tribute band and begins to earn the respect of septuagenarian Mick Jagger.

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