“Bad Contained Thriller Concept Day”
So the other day for no good reason, I declared on Twitter that it was “Bad Contained Thriller Concept Day.” To kick it off, I tweeted a few examples that popped to mind:
“Guy wakes up to discover he’s stuck flying alone in a hot air balloon.” WT: “Effed Up”.
“Gal stuck in runaway ice cream truck with jury rigged fudgesicles set to blow up”. WT: “I Scream”
Rookie stand-up comic gets locked in TV show green room with Joan Rivers, Gilbert Gottleib, and Lady Gaga. WT: “Hellebrity”.
Like I said… bad. Then came the tweets:
While fighting terrorists in an office building, an every-man hero gets stuck in an air vent and remains trapped for 90 min
Teen who has to lose his virginity by end of prom gets locked in the janitor’s closet… and he might not be alone
@BittrScrptReadr
A burnt out construction worker finds himself in a bomb-loaded crane he used to work in and the ladder has been taken away
Ex-Con gets revenge on cop, by hanging him on a bungee cord over a field of landmines, while he goes off to kill the mayor
@San_MonkeyGod
Boy serving detention by cleaning the gym locker room and wakes up INSIDE a locker!! 1-sheet: He’s “STUCK” in Saturday Schl.
A heroic elevator repairman rescuing a helpless group of swimsuit models in a broken elevator locks himself in, farts.
@nate_winslow
Guy wakes up to find he’s trapped inside another guy. A battle for the skeleton ensues.
@JTVaughn
A serial killer traps two men in a basement, but forgets new batteries for the tape player with their instructions.
“We are going tooo plaaaaaay aaaaa gaaaaaaammmmmeeeeeeee….” Click. VICTIM: Wait, what game? What?
@PatrickS
Athiest tries to reconcile with estranged Baptist wife, is trapped inside megachurch during Easter services: Born Again Hard
A terminally ill sales rep spends his final cross-country flight scheming to move from seat 27F to 4A in “Upgrade.”
@YourProtagonist
3 men stuck in a porta-potty. In a spaceship. Inside an asteroid. And one of them swallowed the key.
@sabrescribe
Bad, right? But I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of truly, really bad contained thriller concepts. What can you come up with?
And seriously, how soon before someone sells a contained thriller parody spec script?
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