plan chit

[sikander2]

Hi All,

this above story is written by my students for a live action short i need you people to please help us make this more better like how we can add more humor to it and more scariness to it so please give your valuable suggestion

This is a story of 5 friends(A,B,C,D,E)studying in ELEVENTH STANDARD,They are playing a deadly game Blind chit.But one of them does not believe in all these things(spirits,souls.etc)
One day four of the friends(B,C,D,E)decided to play the game Blind Chit to make their friend (A) believe in souls and spirits.The four friends set the blind Chit material in their room.The fifth friend arrives(A)in the room and is shocked to see all his friends and asks them as to why are they playig this game.the four friends tell him that they want him to believe in the souls n spitits and thus convince him to play this game.And he finally agrees to play the game.
all the friends start the game.The friends ask him (A) WHO SOUL DOES HE WISH TO CALL?THE OTHER FRIEND SAYS THAT HE WANTS TO CALL HIS MOTHER'S SOULS AS HE LOVES HER A LOT.THE FRIENDS THEN START THE PROCESS TO CALL BACK THE DEAD.BUT THEY ARE UNAWARE OF FACT THAT THE FRIENDS MOTHER IS STILL ALIVE.(A)SAID A LIE THAT HIS MOTHER WAS DEAD.AS THEY ARE ABOUT TO FINISH THE PROCESS,
SUDDENLY AT (A) HOME HIS MOTHER RUNS FROM THE KITCHEN SCREAMING FOR HER SON'S NAMEAND JUMPS FROM THE BALCONY AND DIES.
AT THE HOSTEL ROOM OTHER FRIEND GET A CALL FROM HIS HOME THAT HIS MOTHER IS DEAD AND HE GOES INTO A SHOCK STATE.AT THE END THE FRIENDS DECIDED THAT THEY WILL NOT PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN.THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER DIES HAS GONE IN SHOCK STATE.(MENTALLY ILL). AND THe other friends too

regards,
sikander

[sikander2]

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[loki456]

ok after reading and watching quite a few horror films and stories myself, I find that the genre is quite sub divided.

so firstly you need to work out where you are going with it. I.e do you want to make this a 'hack and slash' or 'supernatural' theme. from the content you've given you want to take the supernatural road. now HP Lovecraft (who i've been recently reading) wrote quite a few horror stories in the 1920's so much so, that it created a whole mythos, known as the 'cthulhu mythos' (pronounced ku-tu-lu). so if I was looking at going down that road, I would suggest reading a few of his short stories. here is a website that will help you:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

just be careful on that website, this is the complete works of HP Lovecraft which includes his dream cycle as well. may I suggest you start off by reading 'the call of cthulhu', it would be undoubtedly his most famous work. If you are skeptical, keep in mind that many authors of the horror genre have added to this mythos, most notable modern day horror author, Steven King has also written some short stories that pertain to this mythos. this will show you how to add elements of fright via atmosphere to your story, gore is one thing, but the atmosphere will drag your reader or viewer in.

now the element of humour in horror is tricky, the way I see it and someone else may correct me, is that there are two ways to do this. firstly is by adding the comic relief (a guy that has a witty comeback for everything, he could be the overly scared guy or just a down right fool). secondly you can make the scenes so frantically obscene that the reader/viewer is left contemplating what just actually happened, this is like seeing the far fetched kill in a gory slasher flick. this ludicrous kill leaves the reader/viewer with a feeling of 'that is so unbelievably ridiculous' and they laugh at it. now the latter way of doing this ruins the atmosphere of a true horror. this kind of comedy can be seen in the movie 'evil dead', it is kind of a mock on the cthulhu mythos without being too disrespectful, i believe.

hope this has helped.