Syfy letting viewers create new original movie ideas for 2011 film

SyFy is crowdsourcing an original SyFy movie idea starting Friday June 25.

I'm sure this ought to be fun.

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They've already ruined it.

 

Yeah, so much for "original".

I wanted washed up 80's pop stars to battle vampire squirrels in a post-apocalyptic New Jersey (Which is slightly nicer than current NJ. )

 

How about trying to crowdsource a good movie?

 

Out of curiosity - and I really have no idea - has Syfy ever done a genuinely fun and decent original movie?

And yeah, those choices are crap. If they're going to make terrible movies, why not make some original terrible movies?

 

Not that I know of... just some miniseries.

 

I don't think very many SyFy Original Movies are actually made by SyFy -- they're just the first to air a lot of them.

That being said, putting together ideas for such movies is easy!

What's in the news? Oil spill.

What's been affected by the oil spill? Wildlife.

Add some adjectives...

Oil Spill Uprising: Attack of the Rabid Pelicans, starring Richard Grecio, Robert Beltran and Martika.

Or how about Illegal Aliens vs. Radioactive Gator?

 

You need to combine two species to make a good SyFy movie. Peligators: Death from Above.

 

Bingo. Only a million times better than the options above!

 

Needs more wrestling and reality tv. Might even need some John Edwards.

 

I've got it! Mothman, the Sharktopus, and a Mongolian Death Worm move into a flat in Bristol and try to live a normal life. Hilarity ensues.

 

Some of them are definitely better than others. I admit to a fondness for WARBIRDS. Pterodactyls versus World War II fighter aces! That one was done with a certain degree of flair.

It's all a matter of execution. You can make a "killer iguana rampage" movie that's a fun Saturday night diversion, or you can end up with a mega-iguana movie that's absolutely unwatchable . . . even if you're in the mood for a schlocky monster movie.

And they frequently air a pretty good remake of THE DUNWICH HORROR, which is actually better and more genuinely Lovecraftian than the misbegotten Sandra Dee version from the sixties . . . .

 

Lorenzo Lamas and Elizabeth Berkley star in "Showgirls vs. Shark-Squirrels"

Busta Rhymes and Michael Biehn in "Alien Hoodrat X-Terminators"

Traci Lords and Danny Trejo in "Barrio Burrowers: The Bugs Below"

 

To be fair, John Edwards hasn't been on SyFy for years and years now . . . .

I think the statute of limitations has expired on that one!

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

The killer animal should be a mutant platypus, since it looks like an animal created by committee.

 

Eh, if their defining trait is junkiness, they'd have to at least be topical, as Aragorn suggests, to arouse my interest... those above movies just sound dull.

 

What is the point of taking suggestions when they've already decided on the options? The creature movie is really the only one that would offer any interesting variables for people to vote on.

These things practically write themselves anyways:

In 2014 a new kind of deep water oil rig is built and deployed dead center in the Bermuda triangle to access an enormous oil field previously thought impossible to tap. With the drilling only days from completion, the rig is destroyed by an unknown force and all traces vanish. Several search and rescue teams fail to recover any trace of the rig except for one man who's story is completely unbelievable and a strange oil-like substance unlike anything they've ever seen, leading the EEEVIL oil company in charge to cover it up, mocking footage of it and faking a steady flow of oil.

A plucky blogger stumbles upon the conspiracy and tries to investigate it, thinking it might launch her investigative journalist career but suspicious looking guys in suits start stalking her, going through her apartment, destroying her computer, etc. Luckily just as they are about to 'disappear' her, a highly funded group of militant environmentalists comes to her rescue, hoping to use the information she has to set out on a mission to discover the true story of what happened. We have cooky scientists, badass ex-marines, etc. all involved in this group, who are funded by a shady billionaire. The plucky blogger has an immediate attraction to someone in one of the former two groups, possibly both.

They immediately put together a plan to rescue the one survivor so he can help their mission. They break into the secret compound (which is probably somewhere that looks a lot like western Canada or eastern Europe) only to find that something terrible has happened there which has killed almost everyone, leaving them as oily black skeletons. The few survivors have all locked themselves in the secure room that they were keeping the rig guy in. The environmentalists help them escape, but one the way out they run into the cause of all the oily deaths; several Shark/Crab/Squid/Urchin things that seem to seep crude oil from every pore. Oil that immediately corrodes human flesh into more of the oil-like substance which they then feed on, growing larger and spawning more of the creatures. Most of them die in the escape, just as the oil company blows up the base, trying to make it look like the environmentalist group are terrorists and the cause of the many deaths from the monsters.

Getting info from the surviving oil company scientists from the secret base, and the rig survivors, they decide they must go to the source of the problem, to get evidence of the oil company's nefarious deeds before their secrecy causes oil monsters to kill everyone.

Meanwhile the shallow love story between the blogger girl and whoever has now been established as the hero continues as they get a love scene (unrated DVD has boobs) and fall madly in love, condemning one of them to death.

Setting out on a highly advanced military looking ship, they pick up several SOS signals in the area where the rig was. The oil creatures are over-running every ship in an ever-widening area as a huge boiling oil slick begins to grow at the center, creating an island of living tar.

The last act of the movie is mostly them learning how to fight the monsters (lets go with fire, which instantly turns them into a husk of ash) rescuing the oil company ship to get their help to destroy the evil tar that is spawning the creatures. The shady billionaire benefactor of the environmentalists turns out to actually be in charge of the oil company too, and has put a nuke on their badass boat which he hoped to detonate near where the rig was so they could be blamed for the rig's disappearance for blah blah evil plan. They discover it, disarm it, and later use it to blow up the tar island after luring all the oil monsters onto it, with only the blogger girl and some wacky sidekick surviving in the end after the male protagonist plays a key role at the last minute to make sure everything goes to plan while they escape.

With little to no evidence, her story is laughed out of several news rooms and she ends up joining the environmentalist group for good, now gone rogue from their evil original backer.

Then, because no dumb creature flick would be complete without it, there is a scene of some fishermen pulling up one of the oil creatures in a net, which then attacks them all as the screen goes black and the credits roll.

BAM, movie. I win.

 

As long as my idea can star Lance Henriksen.

 

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