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Can anyone help me with an outline for a politically themed short film? Comedy/Horror (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys. Longtime mostly lurker here. So i have this short film ive made three times and could use some help with coming up with a fourth leftist version.

So the idea is theres a monster in the basement and theres two roommates, one whos very concerned and the others just like “its just a monster man” and he plays video games all day. The one whos concerned is generally depicted to be a way too quick to anger fool. After a series of nuisances, the angry roommate fights the monster roommate (who is a muppet style puppet I have) and the monster eats him. The chill roommate then says “Perhaps” (takes a drag of vape or cigarette and looks directly at camera) “He was the monster all along.”

The last time I tried to make this was 2017 I was still pretty lib and the angry roommate was a chud who the monster “took his jerb” and the chill roommate was a Russian dude who didnt even do anything. Idk i guess the monster was immigrants.

Now im thinking of making it so the monster is climate change/fascism, the chill dude on the couch is a stupid liberal, and the angry dude is a correct leftist. The problem is, I get most of my theory and news and knowledge of the world from just reading comments here. So I have that basic flip of the premise, does anyone have any ideas on how I would structure this? Like how should this bad roommate situation escalate?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You have to gradually explore the threats posed by the monster. It can start with something innocuous but unnerving (say a few strange bumps or the sound of chains rattling in the night) and then get harder and harder to ignore.

Assuming the monster has to eat, you could incorporate the bad roommate trope of food going missing. Maybe the protagonist had a big fancy steak they were excited to eat and when they look in the fridge, it's gone. Then later on, you can establish the lib has been actively feeding the monster.

I guess the culmination would be that a person goes missing. Like the protagonist's partner spent the night there, and allegedly had to leave early in the morning, but when the protagonist wakes up, one of their partner's shoes is still in the house.