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

Published by
Ken Miyamoto

41. A homeless man is stalked by faceless beings.

42. A spelunker stumbles upon a series of caverns infested with rattlesnakes.

43. A group of friends are forced to venture through a chamber of horrors where only one is promised to survive.

44. He’s not the man she thought he was. In fact, he’s not a man at all.

45. Suburbia is actually purgatory.

46. Someone discovers that we are all actually robots—who created us and why?

47. She’s not an angel, she’s a demon.

48. An old shipwreck washes ashore.

49. A sinkhole swallows a house whole and unleashes something from beneath.

50. A man suffers from sleep paralysis at the worst possible time.

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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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