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Post by iamnotluistiant on Feb 13, 2024 15:57:03 GMT -5
No, I am not talking about the upcoming Red Sox season!
I know there are a lot of creative types on here and asking for a friend--do you know of any horror (including the campy ones) that involve the Red Sox, former Red Sox players or baseball in general?
He is working on a script where a bobblehead night is held in every major league game on a certain date. All the bobbleheads start turning real and attacking the fans. If you get bitten you turn into a carnivorous zombie version of that player. Pretty soon you have a stadium full of say Manny Ramirez or Jonathan Papelbon zombies. The New York Yankees of course are having Derek Jeter bobblehead night.
It is an interesting premise but I'm not sure the combination of baseball and horror is going to work.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 13, 2024 16:13:42 GMT -5
Not a movie, though some people tried to make a movie, is this Stephen King psychological horror novel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Tom_Gordon?wprov=sfti1I think I used to blame this novel and its curse for Gordon’s serious injury, and that our lives would have been better if it had been The Girl Who Loved Mariano Rivera. |
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Post by incandenza on Feb 13, 2024 16:30:38 GMT -5
No, I am not talking about the upcoming Red Sox season! I know there are a lot of creative types on here and asking for a friend--do you know of any horror (including the campy ones) that involve the Red Sox, former Red Sox players or baseball in general? He is working on a script where a bobblehead night is held in every major league game on a certain date. All the bobbleheads start turning real and attacking the fans. If you get bitten you turn into a carnivorous zombie version of that player. Pretty soon you have a stadium full of say Manny Ramirez or Jonathan Papelbon zombies. The New York Yankees of course are having Derek Jeter bobblehead night. It is an interesting premise but I'm not sure the combination of baseball and horror is going to work. There's a movie, I think it came out in the late '80s, about a bunch of ghosts of dead baseball players who torment an Iowa farmer. They cause him to hear voices, destroy his family farm, send him into bankruptcy, and nearly tear his family apart, all to force him into building a baseball field. His daughter chokes on a hot dog while watching them play on the cursed field. At one point they even lead him to kidnap a famous author, and there's a scene at Fenway where he has a psychotic vision of the jumbotron going berserk. Chilling stuff. |
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Post by mobaz on Feb 13, 2024 17:00:13 GMT -5
Not a movie, though some people tried to make a movie, is this Stephen King psychological horror novel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Tom_Gordon?wprov=sfti1I think I used to blame this novel and its curse for Gordon’s serious injury, and that our lives would have been better if it had been The Girl Who Loved Mariano Rivera. It's set in New Hampshire, she definitely could have gotten AM broadcasts from NYC! I have fond memories from that story of the Giant Glass ads she conflates in her hallucinations. |
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Post by foreverred9 on Feb 13, 2024 17:52:39 GMT -5
Licensing MLB teams and individuals players sounds expensive in a genre that's all about producing content for cheap.
Might need to get Jon Dowd and Anthony Friese as players instead (hope some of you remember this reference).
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Post by orion09 on Feb 13, 2024 19:04:47 GMT -5
Licensing MLB teams and individuals players sounds expensive in a genre that's all about producing content for cheap. Might need to get Jon Dowd and Anthony Friese as players instead (hope some of you remember this reference). Matt Derksen might be even cheaper. |
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Post by bentossaurus on Feb 13, 2024 22:28:11 GMT -5
Licensing MLB teams and individuals players sounds expensive in a genre that's all about producing content for cheap. Might need to get Jon Dowd and Anthony Friese as players instead (hope some of you remember this reference). Tried to model my swing over Jon Dowd's when I was a teen. He was, dare I say, Bondsian in approach. |
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Post by nomar on Feb 14, 2024 18:25:45 GMT -5
Licensing MLB teams and individuals players sounds expensive in a genre that's all about producing content for cheap. Might need to get Jon Dowd and Anthony Friese as players instead (hope some of you remember this reference). My fiancee making me chuck my poster of the Manny cover. Time doesn’t heal all wounds… |
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