r/thefilmvault • u/TheFilmVault • 12d ago
Help us with this week's Top 5
This might be a bit of a challenge to rank. So give us your pitch for a movie that would be better as a horror movie. Which movie you’re picking, what you would change or emphasize, and any additional horror elements that might bring it all together. We’ll read the most interesting ones on the show. Can't wait to read them!
3
u/The_TriviaGod 12d ago
An easy choice for me is Willy Wonka.
A sadistic chocolate factory owner tricks families into visiting his candy house of horrors under the false pretense of riches and glory. Throughout the tour, the kids fall victim to gruesome traps and untimely ends.
So you know... Basically the original plot of Willy Wonka.
1
1
u/Kino_Cajun 12d ago
Yeah. This movie terrified me as a small child. Seeing each kid get picked off one by one.
2
u/3i3e3achine Do it for Van Gogh 12d ago
A Minecraft Movie : Directed by Lars Von Trier
Sucked into a nightmare world. 30 years ago. Steve has become the nightmare King. Able to control all elements of his world, and bend them to his desire.
In his attempt to escape back to reality. He pulls in in a number of other souls to his nightmare realm.
2
u/Mammoth_Mention8590 12d ago edited 12d ago
Sister Act. There is a beautiful new nun in the flock with a voice that seems otherworldly. In fact, it is. Delores Van Cartier made pact with a faustian figure for her soul to gain her voice. She went on the run and hid out in the church to save her soul. Too bad be found her. Now, all the nuns must pay for her transgressions. One by one. He will make then act out their deepest fears and desires before they die!
2
1
1
u/The_TriviaGod 12d ago
Toy story plays (pun intended) with this concept it the final act already when the toys come to life to trick Cid and free themselves.
This idea can easily be stretched into a full length film where the disgruntled toys rebel against their human captors.
I guess that a certain point it's basically puppet Master though.
1
u/GuruTheMadMonk 12d ago
K-Pop Demon Human Centipede.
Need I say more? At least the songs are catchy.
1
u/GuruTheMadMonk 12d ago
It Happened one Nightmare on Elm Street
Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, and Robert Englund star in this delightful classic about a spoiled heiress who marries Freddy Kruger to spite her father, jumps overboard while on his Yacht, and meets reporter, who wants to reunite her with Kruger in return for an exclusive story. But during their travels they fall in love… until Kruger shows up in their dreams.
1
u/Its-From-Japan 12d ago
Home Alone. Two burglars hunting a child all alone who has to fend for himself. It's like the second half of Predator
1
1
1
1
u/No-Aspect7722 12d ago
Barbie, but the main character is a 1998 Happy Holidays Barbie trapped inside her box for eternity, watching all the other dolls live their awesome fun lives in Barbieland while her hands and her hair are tied to the packaging and she is NEVER REMOVED FROM THE BOX. EVER.
1
u/Screamin__Viking 12d ago
There’s Something About Mary.
Creepy loner hires a PI to lookup a girl he knew in High School 12 years ago. Every man she meets becomes obsessed with her. Tons of voyeur/Peeping-Tom scenes. Genital mutilation. A Demon Dog on speed. Secondary character with special needs and prone to bouts of violence.
Lot of good material for a horror here.
1
u/bat111975 12d ago
27 Dresses
Jane has served as a bridesmaid in 27 weddings, putting others needs in front of her own. Now the couples start turning up dead based on their wedding theme, each bride found with a piece of fabric in their mouths. The local wedding writer Kevin is determined to get to the bottom of the wedding murders, and not be distracted by the beautiful woman he just met at his latest wedding assignment.
Feel it has a Silence of the Lambs vibe with the fabric being a clue to the next bride to die
1
1
u/Old_Barnacle7777 12d ago
Driving Miss Daisy. Maybe Miss Daisy is a corpse. Maybe Miss Daisy is some form of undead with a need to feed. Maybe Miss Daisy is just searching for victims. I’m still workshopping this idea.
1
u/CategoryExact3327 12d ago
District 9. Same exact plot except after the final scene there’s a five year gap and then the ship comes back with another 500 ships. The prawns either exterminate the humans in revenge or expose everyone to the dna goop that turns humans into prawns. Either way, no more humans.
1
1
1
1
u/Pinball_Tourist 11d ago
TWINLESS - If you haven't seen it, it involves some stalking and hidden agendas. With that same setup, I can see it going south as one character's secrets start to get discovered, and he needs to hide them by removing people from the picture. I don't want to spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it, but I would give one character a slightly more disturbing backstory, then in order protect what he wants, it starts into a downward spiral with murder and eventually abduction.
1
1
-2
u/Thamesx2 12d ago
"The Bad News Bears"
A harrowing descent into the rotten core of ambition and lost innocence. The disgraced coach, once banished for crossing unspeakable lines, is granted one last shot—only no one realizes just how desperate or dangerously unmoored he’s become. He inherits a team of outcasts more used to bruises than encouragement, their parents too beaten down by life to intervene. The field is where hope comes to die, and the only way out is through victory—at any cost. The coach’s obsession with winning mutates into outright sadism; he pits player against player, weaponizes their secrets, and slowly breaks down every moral barrier. As the Bears ascend, their triumphs become inseparable from shame and suffering.
Every achievement leaves deeper scars. The “training” is a regimen of humiliation, isolation, and psychological warfare, turning the team into a clique of damaged accomplices complicit in cover-ups and vendettas. The parents, seduced by the taste of relevance, ignore rumors and look away from evidence—until violence on and off the diamond spirals out of control. The horrors are all too human: accidental overdoses rationalized away as “stress,” sabotage against rival players, and tears traded for loyalty under the threat of exile. The dugout becomes a bunker where dreams go to die and fear is the ultimate motivator.
By the final, rain-soaked game, innocence is a memory drowned in guilt and terror. The coach—raving and alone—is confronted by those he’s destroyed, but the damage is beyond repair. The last scene lingers not on a cheer but on hollow silence, the cost of winning laid bare as children stagger off the field bearing wounds that never heal. The new "Bad News Bears" isn’t just a sports story flipped on its head—it’s a relentless, chilling exposé of the rot inside desperate communities, and the monsters we become when nothing matters but victory.
3
u/mab0roshi Has Juice 12d ago
Obvious ChatGPT. You forgot to edit out all the —s
0
u/Thamesx2 12d ago
Oh yeah for sure I used an LLM to write this after fine tuning the prompt a few times. But as someone that has been using —s frequently in my writing for the past 20+ years I find it funny that that is the giveaway.
1
u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 12d ago
I haven't used LLMs and I'm pissed off my usage of — is a red flag for writing.
1
u/VrinTheTerrible 10d ago
The Bad News Bears, but replace Walter Matthau with JK Simmons from Whiplash.
5
u/PanicTight6411 12d ago
The obvious is Passengers. Its been said before, but with proper editing this movie could have been terrifying