Ray Harryhausen’s Deadly Suspicion
I just received a press release for a thriller called Deadly Suspicion. One part of the description caught my eye.
It’s not long before Heather discovers a fearful but manipulative matriarch and a house full of family skeletons that may prove deadly.
Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, they really were skeletons? And not just ordinary skeletons, but magical reanimated skeletons, like in Jason and the Argonauts? How cool would that be? You could write copy just like the above, no one would see it coming, and the unsuspecting audience would flip the fuck out.
Jay, let’s get on this!
September 19th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Yeah, it seems like a genius idea AT FIRST, but then you have to realize that once the twist got out all the copy would read:
“It’s not long before Heather discovers a fearful but manipulative matriarch and a house full of family skeletons — LITERALLY!!!!”
With exactly that many exclamation points.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
But then you’d get crowds of people attending who refused to believe their friends. And the copy would have to be changed to:
“It’s not long before Heather discovers a fearful but manipulative matriarch and a house full of family skeletons — LITERALLY!!!! FOR REAL!!!!!”
Which would draw in even more people.