This setup would have made me watch the Dexter reboot.
As a family man and not a serial killer, this would be an easy kill spree. Gotta get back before the wife calls in.
Personally I always wanted to play out a scenario where the crew of the USS Enterprise unwittingly bring aboard a xenomorph egg.
I’ve heard various verdicts on how that ends.
Long as we’re listing horror movie ideas, here’s mine:
Sanewashing
Minor parody of modern politics. Begins as a creepy mysterious slasher movie about a man in a completely ridiculous clown costume slashing people up with little warning. A common theme is that no victims react as they should - frequently assuming they are amid a camera prank, or simply experiencing “sensory overload”.While the movie follows one hero that is aghast and wants to explain the killings, other reactions are surprisingly mute - focused on mourning the deaths, not fearing any killer; and accepting the idea of a slasher in a clown costume as a stress induced hallucination.
Eventually, the hero is captured and the killer decides to give away the secret in a villain monologue: He’s just a serial killer who wanted to kill, but a random impulse made him decide on the clown costume - and it basically makes his existence stealthy, as though no one can acknowledge his very existence even when he barges in the front door.
Not bad not bad. I’ll take it!
Shadows of some wriggly spiky tentacles with teeth… getting ripped appart, green blood splatters on the wall.
I’d watch this. Dexter vs Aliens.
No One Will Save You.
Its about an outcast girl being caught up in an alien invasion except she is really good at killing them so much that i felt horror for the aliens.
Aliens V. Becky
May I suggest checking out the film “Get away” with Nick Frost and Ashling Bea.
Its absolutely excellent
Thanks for the recommendation! I’m gonna watch this tonight! =D
There is a start trek voyager episode like this. It’s a great one. It’s called Meld, in Season 2.
Actual sociopath who has tried very hard to maintain boundaries and not commit crime even in secret suddenly finds himself in a safe space for venting.
Peak, must watch.
Do psychopaths actually do this? I thought the whole point was that they didn’t care about other people, so would have no particular interest in hiding?
Not quite. There’s a range of antisocial personality disorders. The common characteristic is lacking empathy. For the most part, the interest in hiding is more a byproduct of self preservation, getting what you want, and upbringing.
Just because you don’t care about something doesn’t mean you don’t do things you were taught , you just do them because that’s how things are done, not because you’ve internalized the reason behind it. I hold the door for the person behind me because being kind to strangers is good, and I’d feel bad if I made someone have a worse day. A sociopath might do it because they were told that that’s what you do.
Put differently: they view people as akin to objects. I will openly admit to having objectified my toaster. I don’t care what it thinks of me, and when it stops toasting I’ll only keep it long enough to reference the model number and get a new one. (Not being a sociopath, I’ve now considered the feelings of my toaster and feel a tinge of irrational guilt about writing that about my loyal toaster).
Abusing the toaster wouldn’t give me intrinsic joy. It would cause my family to look at me oddly and I’d have to answer all sorts of questions. Also I couldn’t make bagels. Treating an inert object well helps me avoid an uncomfortable situation, and is more useful to me. Once treating it poorly had more value though, I won’t really hesitate.That’s why they often find themselves in jobs where treating people like objects is helpful. Other people balk at ruthlessly firing people right before the holidays, or telling a child with cancer that their treatment is more expensive than the premiums they’ll bring in, even accounting for the lawsuit for wrongful claim rejection, and so they need to die. Sociopath just sees the benefit to themselves of making their quarterly numbers look good.
Isn’t this the plot for Jason X?
Silly goose, Jason X didn’t bother with a plot.
He was a good husband and a loving father, he hid his true nature through great effort, so he could have a better life. But one day, dark shapes appeared in the sky, and he was taken prisoner by beings who had every reason to believe he was docile…
Closest thing I watched was “no one will save you” Main character has to kill all kinds of aliens while they are tying to abduct her.
Minor spoiler:
spoiler
she earns mad respect from aliens as story progresses which leads to a “happy ending”
There’s of course Alien vs. Predator.
That movie is a a fucking wild trip. Highly recommend it.
That’s an Uno Reverse on the whole killer alien genre. I’d watch that in a heartbeat
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Call it… Slayer under Saturn.
S. U. S. For short
Oh cool, a new Doom movie.
A serial killer wouldn’t necessarily do well in this situation. They tend to get off on being sneaky and killing people with no way to defend themselves. A combat vet is probably their worst possible choice, which is why it’s a popular trope.
Okay, so the aliens don’t abduct him. They pose as humans, ala They Live or Men In Black. They don’t know he knows they’re aliens. They’re his family, friends, and business partners.
Have you seen Predators? This is directly addressed in that movie.
Hannibal lecter and true crime make serial killers look like supervillains but really they’re just Steven Miller if he was broke.
Seriously Dahmer had a victim RETURNED TO HIM BY THE POLICE. Not a mastermind, a higher intelligence wouldn’t be subverted.
Not only that, there were a bunch of his neighbors telling the police that he was killing people and that his apartment smelled like the literal pile of rotting corpses that it actually was, and the police response was, “You’re black/gay, we don’t care.”
Dahmer was a psychotic, tactless, idiot fucking dumbass that genuinely did not seem to be even trying to hide his actions, and the police were still too fucking stupid, lazy, and bigoted to even notice.
There are stories of Gary Ridgeway’s co-workers jokingly calling him “Green River Gary” before he was caught because he gave off serial killer vibes.
Conspiracy incoming:
The cops knew what Dahmer was doing, they just didn’t give a shit. He killed a bunch of people the cops wanted to kill themselves.
I don’t think you would even call that a conspiracy theory, that’s just what was obviously happening.
Just like Reagan and AIDS!
ICE cold take
Documentaries always like to show them as geniuses because it’s more exciting than the idea that people are oblivious and law enforcement isn’t always effective.
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
Until the combat vet gets triggered by his PTSD, but then we already have Rambo.
There was one fan fiction where the A-Team was abducted by aliens. Let’s say they promptly broke out of confinement, locked themselves in a room with a bunch of alien goodies and went underground in a nebula. That was a fun one.
Instead of a serial killer, maybe an obsessive weirdo who can figure out how anything works (and how they can be made to not work) and really, really wants to go home.
The aliens keep trying to find their captive, but parts of the ship keep breaking.
That just sounds like the original ‘Die Hard’ with Aliens. he’s in the vents!
Yeah but we’d totally watch that.
Oh yeah, absolutely I would!
So… McGuyver?
Actually yeah.
I struggled with that show when I was a kid. I didn’t understand the point. Because my family is… just like that. Dear old Dad, my uncles, even my mom who made her own wedding dress on a treadle sewing machine.
Let’s just make a nice cup of tea in that Nutri-Matic over there …
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
Why not both? Ever watch criminals minds it’s always “ex military”
Osiris with Linda Hamilton.
And most combat vets are retired mercenary serial killers.
Not the same kind of “serial killer” referenced here, though.
