NO MORE TIRED ASS SEQUELS!!!

This is a call to every person who loves original movies. You don't have to love horror or sci-fi or any specific genres...just ORIGINAL movies! It's time for a Hollywood boycott!

With Scream 4 releasing this week, it's the perfect time to speak up. I am sick and tired of Hollywood's remakes, reboots, "re-imaginings", sequels, prequels, etc. I am a screenwriter, so I know there are very original movie ideas out there. Hopefully, one day I will be a good enough writer to have one of my scripts optioned. Until that day, I know that there are tens of thousands of great writers out there with original ideas. I'm tired of Hollywood taking the easy way out and trying to recycle old, worn out ideas/franchises. In fact, I hate the fact that movies have "franchises." The majority of movie franchises should have ended with 2 total movies. I'm trying to think of one franchise that benefited from 3 or more movies. And the only one I can think of is Evil Dead. (As a disclaimer, movies like Lord of The Rings that are installment literary works make sense to have franchises and usually work in that aspect). Franchises are what really ruined horror for awhile. From the late 80's to early 90's, the only real major horror movies that came out were bad sequels in franchises like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, and so on. Now, we might like a few of those, but mainly for the camp, gore, and cult; not because they were cinema masterpieces.

And what really brought about the end of these horror franchises? Scream.

Now before you get the wrong impression, I both respect and loathe Scream for the same reason. It exposed all the cliches and formulas that were used in previous horror movies and really turned them on their heads. So on one hand it was a new, original type of horror movie. But it also frightened movie makers to revisit the old style of horror movie for the rest of decade. In my eyes, it killed the genre for a good 5 to 6 years. Overall, for this reason (and the actors) I do not like this movie. The really ironic thing about this whole situation is that Scream exposed the franchise dilemma I wrote about above; then it goes off and gets 3 sequels to become a cliche itself.

I have no idea what possessed Craven to create another Scream sequel. I thought he was supposed to be a master of horror? He hasn't made a good horror movie since New Nightmare (one of the only good Nightmare sequels). I hoped he could muster something better. And if he really can't, I'm not going to be one of those sheep going to feed him more of my hard earned money. I'm not going to be one of those die hard fans hoping that he finally makes another good movie. I'm done with Wes Craven. As of right now, he's either a sell out or a wash up.

So, I am calling to all fans of original movies, of great horror movies, and all people tired of being insulted by Hollywood's belief that the masses will watch any piece of shit they put in theaters to boycott all Hollywood remakes, reboots, prequels, and sequels. Don't go to the theaters to watch them. Don't buy them on DVD. Only stream them from the internet if you must watch them. I'm talking about horror movies, comic book movies, sci-fi, etc. If it has had a movie made in its franchise within the last 25 years, don't watch the newest edition. I know it will be hard, down right unbearable at times. But it's time for a movie and horror revolution! Support your local screenwriter!