First Draft

First Draft: Craft Top-Notch Cinematic Scares With These 101 Terrifying Horror Story Prompts

Published by
Ken Miyamoto

11. Serial killers worldwide are connected by a dark web website.

12. The world’s population is overtaken by vampires—all except one little child.

13. A woman afraid of clowns is forced to work in a travelling circus.

14. An astronaut and cosmonaut are on the International Space Station when their countries go to Nuclear War with each other. Their last orders are to eliminate the other.

15. A treasure hunter finds a tomb buried beneath the dirt.

16. A young brother and sister find an old door in their basement that wasn’t there before.

17. Winged creatures can be seen within the storm clouds above.

18. A man wakes up to find a hobo clown staring down at him.

19. Residents of a town suddenly fall dead while the dead from cemeteries around them rise.

20. A doctor performs the first head transplant—things go wrong.

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Ken Miyamoto

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  • A single picture is a 1,000 words. How easy it is to put words on paper, but hard to make those words stand out on film.
    "Dad answer's phone to find that he is now talking with his daughter who has been bury in the basement for 15 years". "It is also the night of the dead". "The other bodies who also have been bury in the basement are creeping up the stairs".
    Since every 3-5 seconds is a cut the horror is trying to get enough items on film where their are no retakes.

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