Over on the New Year’s Evil blog we’re currently running a vote on what the signature weapon our killer should use.
This is because when I was drafting the script it slipped my mind that slasher movie bad-guys always have a trademark weapon – in Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy has his razor glove, in the Friday 13th series Jason’s got his machete and in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface has…
Well I forget what Leatherface uses… the fact is as a fan of the slasher movie sub-genre I should have had this figured out when I wrote the screenplay but it just goes to prove that sometimes you can overlook the fundamentals of genre.
As a positive I’ve turned this omission to an advantage and I’m using this as a way of interacting with our future audience – we’re asking them to choose what weapon we use from a short-list of five. One of the contributing factors to succeeding with crowd funding is to create opportunities that allow two-way interaction. Admittedly this opportunity has arisen from an epic fail by me but I’ll take my opportunities where I can.
You can find the poll here on our Facebook page or here on the NYE blog. I would really appreciate your participation and besides where else will you get the opportunity to vote on how death is dealt out?
Not even Simon Cowell does that. Yet.
