i actually have a few, but im not posting the real good ones until i finish scripts for them. i was actually about 3/4 of the way through a script when i heard about the film that came out last week "Mr. Brooks" and i had to start a massive rewrite because it was a very similar concept. I heard about that about 7 months ago and (i work on about 5 at a time) I am still tweaking ideas so that I will not be accused of imitating the already-made movie.
The idea was somewhat different, but somewhat similar: A middle aged man (lets say 44) is a devout catholic and a church-goer his entire life. He lives by the bible and is seemingly the most harmless human being on the face of the earth. You know these people, well-respected at church but too much of a softy to be a huge success in the real world, so hes just has an average life, and average looking wife (albeit one who he loves more than life itself) and is just an average human being outside of his church sanctuary.
The man's wife has a job that requires that she hires and fires people regularly, and one day she is stalked and attacked by a man whom she has recently fired and left unemployed. The man is a loner and his job is the only thing he had in life, so he goes into a psychotic episode and breaks into the families house and attempts to attack the woman as a form of revenge. While the psycho assumed the woman's husband was not home, he was actually doing his daily bible reading in the basement. Upon hearing a rucus upstaris, he runs up to find his wife about to be beaten. As a reflex, the man jumps to the protection of his wife and knocks the guy out, but while he could have stopped after one punch and called the cops on the psycho, something comes over him and he continues to beat the man, until he kills him with his bear hands.
Of course the man gets off on self-defense, mostly due to his reputation and the people who know him through church. However, he can't help but face the fact that upon killing the man, he felt a power over another human being that he had never come close to feeling in his life, and he starts to crave that feeling.
While there are more murders in the film, the thing that sets this apart from anything I have written, and much of what I have seen before is that the main conflict is the inner conflict between this man's sudden addiction to killing, and his strongly enforced morals that have been engraved inside him his entire life. He knows that what he is doing is wrong, and that he is a sick man for having a thirst for murder. However, he finds a way to crazily justify every murder he committs, through using passages in the bible.
The story is partly just a slasher movie, but partly a satire of human nature. Everyone knows people who seem perfect, and it has been seen before that some of those "perfect" people have terrible addictions that they keep secret, ie gambling, infidelity, smoking cigarettes, and even some crazy sexual fetishes. This story takes that notion a step further, and deals with a seemingly perfect god-fearing human being who develops an addiction to killing others.
This is not my best script, but I really enjoyed writing it, so I am doing what I can to distinguish this from Mr. Brooks, another "seemingly good guy loves to kill" story. Hopefully I will have this one done soon.
Oh, and one more thing, the story I wrote in 11th grade for a "write your own short story" assignment ended up being almost identical to the script for the movie "High Tension" which was created a year and a half after I wrote my story. I guess I have a mind filled with good ideas, but the same kind of good ideas other people tend to get too
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