Stories by @optimistic_writer

The Old Dark House

A torrential downpour forces Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel to seek shelter in an ancient, crumbling mansion inhabited by the strange and sinister Femm family. Determined to make the best of the circumstances, the benighted travellers drink and talk to pass the time while the storm rages outside. But as the night progresses and tensions rise, dangerous and unexpected secrets emerge. On the house’s top floor are two locked doors: behind one of them is the mysterious, unseen Sir Roderick Femm, while the other conceals something terrifying and deadly secret.

Dracula Returns

20 years after the events of the previous film, Quincey Harker is a soldier in The Great War. He begins having visions of a mysterious man and woman killing people. He slowly begins to realize that Dracula, the beast his parents fought against all those years ago, has returned, along with a new bride. It’s up to him, and his friend Larry Talbot, to stop him before the Count is in command of an undead vampire army.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A young gypsy girl named Esmeralda, captures the hearts of many men including the nefarious Archdeacon Claude Frollo who is tortured by his lust for her and the rules of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Frollo sends his servant, Quasimodo, to kidnap her but in the resulting frenzy, he is sentenced to be flogged. Esmeralda eventually saves him, and with this, Quasimodo falls hopelessly in love with her. It's through this, that a story of betrayal, murder, love, and torture is unfolded with these characters and centered around the Notre Dame of Paris.

Rage of Frankenstein

After the events of the previous film, it’s revealed that Elizabeth didn’t die, and was in a comatose state. Despite this, she eventually gave birth to a boy named Vincent Frankenstein. 34 years later, Vincent has become a well-respected doctor, under his mentor of Dr. Pretorius. Pretorius goes on an expedition in the Arctic, and finds the remains of Frankenstein’s creature. He takes the creature back with him and convinces Vincent to continue his father’s work. He decides to do so, so that he can study it. They resurrect him, and despite his intelligence, they treat him as a lab rat. With this, his only friend is a young woman who speaks to him through the castle walls. When she is killed by accident, the monster demands to have Frankenstein and Pretorius resurrect her to disastrous results.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

A group of various scientists and researchers are doing some research in an unknown terrain of South America. What they don't realize, is that they are encroaching upon the home of something else entirely. When people begin to go missing, the rest of the researchers have to figure out what's going on before it's too late.

The Cat People

In the town of Ghizikhan, strange murders being to happen all over town. What looks like brutal animal attacks by a cat-like creature, turn out to be the work of a strange race called The Bagheeta. A young man named Kolya hears tales of his father that the only thing that can kill a Bagheeta is man who hasn't full reached manhood yet, or in other words, a virgin. Kolya believes he is the only one who can take matters into his own hands and stop these attacks from happening in his small town. Along with his friend, Pola, they go and find the Bagheeta responsible.

The Phantom of the Opera

The Palais Garnier is a famous Paris opera house, that is believed to have an entity haunting the building, a phantom. Christine Daaé is an up and coming opera singer who fills in for another singer after she falls ill. She is an exceptional success. The Phantom of the Palais Garnier begins to fall in love with Christine, and demands that she be used in Faust, or he will put a curse on the opera house. The initially don't believe him but various terrible things start to happen to the actors, as well as the audience. This eventually leads to Christine being kidnapped by the Phantom, and demands her affection in return, while the Phantom kills anyone in his way.

The Wolf Man

Larry Talbot comes home from The Great War, and he is suffering from PTSD. He keeps having flashbacks to the war. He takes his fiancée, Gwen, out to a festival to help clear his head and try to get things back to normal. However, while there, he sees a woman getting attacked by what appears to be a wolf. He has a flashback and because of this, he attacks the wolf and kills it. But, while doing so, he also gets bitten by it. Now, Talbot is unsure whether or not he's going crazy while people start getting killed and attacked by a strange wolf creature.

The Invisible Man

Dr. Jack Griffin is a man who has discovered a potion that can turn a man invisible, and drinks it himself. What he didn't factor, was due to the secret ingredient that makes the potion work, also makes a man go completely mad. So, while trying to find a cure, Griffin finds the various benefits of being invisible and takes advantage of them.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a famed scientist who has always been fascinated with duality of the human mind. He takes a serum he has been working on for months that would isolate his more evil tendencies to a single personality. With this, he transforms into the evil Mr. Edward Hyde. His strange behavior has caught the eye of his friend Gabriel John Utterson who tries to figure out what is wrong with his friend, and who Hyde is.

The Mummy

In 1901, a group of 5 archaeologists find an ancient tomb that was left unmarked. What they believe was someone of great importance in ancient Egypt, turns out to be a massive traitor to the high council. The mummy is somehow re-awakened and begins killing off the archaeologists, and anyone else who gets in his way. But what they don’t realize is that he’s under the control of his descendant, Ardeth Bey, who condemns the actions of the desecration of the tombs by explorers.

Frankenstein

Captain Walton finds a man frozen half to death named Victor Frankenstein while trying to reach the Arctic for fame. Victor recounts his story to the Captain, as a warning to try and not achieve such feats. As a young medical student, Victor managed to bring non-living tissue back to life. With this, he soon became obsessed with trying to reanimate a fully dead corpse with various body parts stitched together. With this, he creates a creature that he despises and is a "defacement of nature". However, the Monster goes on a journey of his own, gaining intelligence despite being shunned by society.

Dracula

A man named Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania to provide legal support for a real estate deal between his employer and Count Dracula, a Transylvanian noble. While there, Harker is warned by the villagers that the Count is a monster... a beast of the night. Harker pays no mind to it but while arriving there, he notices that Dracula is a very strange man, and soon begins to realize that the villagers were right, and that he is moving to London in search of fresh blood. It is then up to Abraham Van Helsing, Quincy Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and Harker's fiancee Mina, to stop the invasion of Dracula.

Cannon Films' Spider-Man (1985)

Due to a lab experiment gone wrong, Peter Parker gains similar attributes to that of a spider. Unbeknownst to him, his mentor, Doctor Otto Octavius was in the same accident that caused him to go insane and have metal arms permanently attached to him. It's because of this that "Doc Ock" tries to find the fifth force of nature, and Peter has to become the hero, Spider-Man, to stop him.

Doctor Who: Rebirth

Taking place after the events of the series finale of the New Who era, we have The Thirteenth Doctor getting a distress signal from a planet named Regulon 7. Along with her companions, a human teenager named Tara, as well as a 400 year old alien named Nox, she goes and tries to figure out what is going on, on the planet. When they land, they see the planet abandoned, and have to figure what happened and who sent them the distress call. What they find, is a bug-like creature called a Popln who claims he has murdered every being on the planet. It's then that he kills both of The Doctor's companions and The Doctor herself. She is then regenerated into a new body, and while trying to figure out the new ins and outs, has to figure out the mystery of what happened to Regulon 7. Would be a theatrical horror sci-fi film reminiscent of movies like Alien.

The Master of Horror

A film about John Carpenter's career from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s. It would follow the ups and downs of his career from the breakthrough of Halloween to the cult films of the 1980s, to his downfall in the 1990s.

The Lovable Losers

The story of the 1969 New York Mets and how they went from being one of the worst teams in the league to World Series champions, in one of the greatest upsets in baseball history.

My Name is Danny

A young man named Danny is an outcast in his family as he's not a ladies man like his father and grandfather before him. Hell, his sister gets more action than he does! With this, he has to go on an existential quest to find the secrets of hooking up with the ladies, as well as possibly finding his soul mate. A jukebox musical featuring the music of Ninja Sex Party.

Moon Knight III

Moon Knight is further dealing with his split personality disorder and schizophrenia when his brother escapes from prison and becomes Shadow Knight and starts killing cops. At the same time, a strange experiment goes wrong, and another villain named Morpheus appears to torment Moon Knight.

Moon Knight II

A man named Carson Knowles comes back to his home from war and nobody cares about his return. He was replaced at his job, he can't find another one, his wife leaves him, and his son dies in a gang war. He becomes inspired by Moon Knight but with no heroic ambition, he becomes a villain himself, trying to control the city of New York. With this, Moon Knight has to stop him.