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

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Ken Miyamoto

71. An Artificial Intelligence begins to communicate with a family online, only to terrorize them through their technology.

72. A family buys a cheap house only to discover that an old cemetery is their backyard.

73. Years after the zombie apocalypse subsides, survivors discover that the epidemic was caused by aliens that have appeared to lay claim to the planet.

74. A woman has memories of being abducted by aliens—but she soon learns that they weren’t aliens. They were…

75. A boy has a tumor that slowly grows into a Siamese twin—the older they get, the more evil the twin becomes.

76. A cult that worships history’s deadliest serial killers begins to kill by copying their methods.

77.  Stone gargoyles suddenly appear on the tops of buildings and houses of a small town.

78. A family on a boat trip stumbles upon an old pirate ship.

79. A winter snow storm traps a family in an abandoned insane asylum.

80. A little girl comes down from upstairs and asks her parents, “Can you hear it breathing? I can.”

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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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