Which Marvel Villain would make a good horror movie monster?

[HulkSmash666]

Which of Marvel's characters could be made into a horror/slasher movie, similar to Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street etc.?

Horror/Slasher flicks run to a pretty standard formula:

-Murderous villain/monster
-Bunch of characters for canon fodder
-Hero/Heroine who is either the only one thinking straight, or flukes out a win and barely survives/escapes.


Your job is to come up with a plot involving a Marvel villain, a setting, and the hero the villain can fight/chase/try to kill.

You can pick a director and a cast, and have an unlimtied budget.

How would you do this movie?

[Make Mine Mar-Vell]

Your ideal villain is called Deathgrip.

An obscure villain from Marvel in the 70's.

He somehow combines that classic Universal monster thing with a twisted edge.

It can be reworked into the modern era.

More to come later.


Very intelligent question and conceptual post BTW.

[Alan2099]

There's a number of villians that come to mind as being able to work well in the horror genre.

The first ones that come to mind are Carnage, Holocaust, Darkbeast, Scarecrow, Baron Blood, Blackout, Skinner, Abomination, Swarm, Lizard, and Death Ninja. I'll get into more specifics of what to do with them after I get off work.

[HulkSmash666]

Night of the Sabretooth:

Following the events of the Wolverine movie, Creed is thought to have died, only to rise again and seek revenge.
He decides to target Logan where it will hurt him the most- The X-Mansion.

Unaware of Creed's return, Logan is off on another mission somewhere, while the senior X-Men have left only the younger X-Men to look after the students as they too are on a mission.

Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Rogue, Jubilee, Gambit, Psylocke and Angel are the only senior students protecting 50+ kids from harm.

Creed sneaks past the mansions security with ease and begins to stalk the halls. As the power and security systems are disabled, the kids start to freak out, and one by one, they are picked off.

As the panic sets in, the young X-Men have to find a way to get a message to the other X-Men, or even the cops. Iceman uses his cellphone to call the cops, and shortly they arrive. One of the cops just so happens to be Lucas Bishop, a mutant police officer who always knew about the Westchester Mansion, but kept it to himself, knowing of the good it does mutants everywhere.

Bishop and his partner are attacked by Creed, with Bishop's partner being killed and Bishop badly scratched and bleeding, manages to get inside and link up with the junior X-Men so they can formulate a plan until back-up arrives.

The young X-Men stash the students in the Danger Room and seal it off so they are protected inside. Creed manages to reach the controls for the Danger Room and sets it to an extremelly terrorfying simulation of a Wendigo attack.

The young X-Men bunker down and prepare to fight Creed, but when the time comes, they are no match for him.

In seconds he has: clawed Iceman's chest open, with only his ice-form keeping him alive, taken out Colossus before he can armour up, which forces Kitty to phase herself and Peter into the floor to escape, laughed off a full on assault from Jubilee's fireworks powers, dodged and weaves his way through a hail of exploding cards from Gambit and takes him out with a nasty slash across the shoulder, and laughed off a psi-blade knife strike to the brain from Psylocke, then gutting her in front of the others, then after taking a full force bio-energy blast from Bishop, heals in seconds and proceeds to slash Bishop to pieces.

They retreat and try and hide, but again he's onto them. Scared out of their minds, and having all their training fail on them as Creed outsmarts them and beats them at every turn.

Kitty reunites with the fleeing X-Men and tells them she just checked the com-systems and got a message from the X-Men saying that help is on the way.

With only a wounded Iceman, Kitty, Rogue and a near dead Colossus and Angel, they are just about finished when Creed finds them guarding the Danger Room door controls with their last strength.

Kitty prays that the help is coming as Creed begins to toy and taunt the young X-Men. He finishes his tirade and goes to finish them, but Colossus stands up, badly wounded, but fully armoured, and stoically challenges Creed to take him first.

Creed, in his arrogance and supreme confidance, decides to give thm all one last shot at fighting back.

Colossus lunges forward with a punch, sending Creed hurtling into a wall. Creed emmerges coughing and spluttering. but unharmed. Colossus charges forward again, but Creed dodges and flips Peter onto his back with an enourmous crash, then stamps his face into the floor, crushing the concrete below and KO'ing the already extremelly weakened Peter.

Kitty tries to sneak attack Creed, but he smells her coming and dodges her phased attacks. He knows she has to be solid to gain any strength behind her punches and times her attacks and lands a savage slash across her back, taking her out of the fight.

Only Iceman and Rogue remain. Rogue is cuaght by the throat by Creed as he backhands the injured Iceman onto the floor. Rogue tries her energy draining attack, which causes Creed to drop to his knees and release Rogue. she then hammers him into a wall with all her absorbed strength.

Iceman then uses all his energy to freeze up Creed as he lays on his back, suppossedly unconscious and defeated. Rogue goes to check on Iceman and the others, but as they go to get up and leave......

You guessed it. Creed rises once more, in full beserker fury and fully healed. He attacks full force, only to be met by a tackle that sends him crashing to the floor.

Wolverine has arrived.

The two square off in a visicous brawl to the death, dishing out loads of punishment on eachother as the students look on in horror and awe.

The battle builds to a cresendo with the arrival of Storm's lightning bolt and Xavier's telepathy taking Creed down for good.

Creed is last seen in the hands of SHIELD as they take him to the Raft.



The End.

[rZi]

Dr Doom minus his mask.

[nicktem]

Jude the Entropic Man would be pretty cool. He is from an old team up comic and also a big part of the Universe/Paradise X series'.

He would just float around bringing death to whoever he touched. He's got that horror movie look. And then you can have a detective like charachter as the hero.

[Bulky Brent]

HulkSmash666: I like your plot a lot you have anymore?

[HulkSmash666]

HulkSmash666: I like your plot a lot you have anymore?

Thanks mate, and yeah, I got a couple more.

There's the obvious ones like Werewolf By Night and Morbius.

In fact, Morbius could be an awesome new take on the vampire movie.


Morbius

Dr Michael Morbius is on the verge of a breakthrough that will propel him to the top of the bio-physics world, and his life couldn't be better.
He's about to marry his sweetheart, and his career has taken off. A new house, a new car, and new life.
Then he begins to feel sick and weak, and as his condition gets worse, he examines himself and finds that he has a rare blood disease.
Desperate to find a cure to this agressive disease, he treats himself to an experimental blood transfusion.
Unfortunately for Michael, he grabbed the wrong blood samples he needed for his experiment, and somehow grabbed a blood sample that was marked "Homo-Vampirus".
In his haste and state of exhaustion (having worked non-stop obsessively for days on end without sleep), he doesn't read the label and adds it to his own blood samples.
Upon waking the following day, Morbius finds his blood cells have stabilized, and it seems his cure has worked.
As the day progresses, he finds himself becoming disorientated and hallucinating. He heads back to his wife and sleeps until nightfall.
He awkens in agony. Hot, sweating, burning up, he heads for the kitchen to get some water, but no matter how much he drinks, he just can't quench his thirst.

Morbius desperatly tries to cool his body and his thirst in the shower, and his wife is freaking out. She calls 911, but he wants no help from them, as his reputation would be in tatters if word got out he experimented on himself illegally, and if anyone knew he had a terminal disease.

He flees the apartment in desperation, and runs into the streets in a futile search to quench this ever increasing thirst. He heads to a convienient store and buys heaps of Gatorade and electrolytes, then hits the pharmacy for something to rehydrate himself.

Nothing works.

His madness is at fever pitch at this stage, and he heads to the river to drown himself. But as he crosses into a park, he is overcome with a rush of pain, as his body begins to tranfsorm.

His fingers grow claws, his skin whitens, his muscles harden and strengthen, his eyes go dead, and his teeth grow into fangs.

Morbius has now fully transformed into a living vampire, and his need to feed is paramount. He must feed now.

Morbius immeadiatly hears some young punks walking through the park, getting up to no good. As they approach, Morbius, in a blood-crazed frenzy, attacks the group from the shadows, picking each one off with brutal ease.

Morbius continues to pick off victims through the night, and by morning finds himself in his apartment on his lounge rooom couch. He awakens with no memory of what happened, but is horrified to find the newspapers and TV's pumping out the main story of the day- 14 people had their throats torn out and ripped to pieces within a one mile area of the park Morbius last remembers being before everything went red and hazy.

He just remembers waking up feeling better than he's ever felt in his life.

He tells his wife of his fears, and tells her of the his experiments on himself. She is upset by what he's done to himself, but is also thankful he no longer has his blood-disease.

Michael decides he has to find a way to keep his thirst in check, so he breaks into a blood bank and steals all the blood samples to keep himself fed.

This works. For a while.

Within two nights, the thirst is unbearable. Morbius puts it down to he may need fresh blood, most likely, and most horrifying, from a live donor, or "victim".

That night, he transforms, and begins to hunt. As he stalks a victim, he's attacked from behind by someone with awesome stealth.

Morbius turns to face his attacker. This guy looks similar to Morbius in the fact he's got fangs and claws, but he can't be someone with the exact same blood experiment performed on himself? So who is he?

The man explains to Morbius that his activities at night have drawn the attention of real vampires, and that this vampire has been sent to kill him so as not to give Vampires a bad name by killing so many humans so recklessly.

They see Morbius as an abomination, and not a vamoire at all, but a human playing-vampire. Morbius explains he wants a cure, but he is told there is none other than death.

They fight, with the vampire being quite the skilled fighter, but Morbius is all ferocity and bloodlust, and savagely tears the vampires throat out and drinking his blood, killing him.

This puts Morbius number one on the Vampires hitlist, and they send all sorts of crazy vampire hitmen after him.

They even send Werewolf By Night, their "outside-help" and specialist vampire-killer.

So it's a now a chase movie through the city as Morbius tries desperately to keep his wife out of harms way while an army of vampire assassins and a badass werewolf hunt him down, and all the while trying to keep his bloodlust under control so he doesn;t kill innocent people, especially his wife, and try and find a cure to his condition.

He decides to use his vampiric side to his own advantage, as once he's fed in his vampiric form, he regains his intelligence and keeps his vampiric strength, speed etc. So in order to combat this, he feeds off of bad guys/criminals, and sets out to gain another piece of his puzzle each night.

He eventually comes to the realization that he's got two choices. Either he can keep living this lifestyle, on the run, on the verge of killing and eating his wife in an uncontrollable bloodlust, fighting a vampire army each night, while trying to find a cure............

or.....

he can kill himself and not only spare all the future lives he'll take in his bloodlust, but spare his wife a life of torment and pain and a life on the run.






To be continued............

[Make Mine Mar-Vell]

All cool stuff, I'm reading...

[matthewaos]

Morbious is cool. I think he can be easily destroyed in a movie where he is a Jason kind of a character (not much back story that makes sense, kills everyone, only the girl that refuses to have mindless sex with wild college boys lives).

[timomcshade]

Until the Saw movies I would have said Arcade but now I don't think so.

Lets see:
Shadow King
Mr. Fear
Morbius
Morlun
Venom
Carnage
Lizard
Goblin or Ock(almost all Spidey villians can be made very scary)
Alien races like The Brood or Phalnax
Gladiator
Crossbones & Sin
Man-Thing(not technically a villian but would be cool in a horror movie)
Thanos(he does love death)
The Ultimate Galactus pods/pod. If you read that series and Ultimate Vision you can see how scary those pods can be.
Typhoid Mary
Marvel Zombies

[rescura]

Carnage or Man-Thing, doubtlessy!
Nice writing, by the way, HulkSmash666!

[StoneGold]

Carnage or Man-Thing, doubtlessy!
Nice writing, by the way, HulkSmash666!

No, Man-Thing made a lousy movie.

[rescura]

No, Man-Thing made a lousy movie.

Hulk too, but that didn't stopped the guys from trying again, did it? :tongue:

[matthewaos]

Hulk too, but that didn't stopped the guys from trying again, did it? :tongue:

I think the first Hulk was really interesting. Man-Thing now...

[Decepticons_Rule]

Morbius.
Abomination.
That Predator thing that was in the last X-Men Crossover.
Arcade from X-Men...a bunch of teens trapped in one of his funhouses.
Jigsaw.

[timomcshade]

How's this for a horror movie:

We open in a comic shop on a Wednesday with a huge crowd that clearly has incredible excitement. The book they are waiting for is Ultimates 3. They read the book and get angry. At that point Jeph Loeb and Joe Mad appear and start killing all the fans with bad art and phoned in writing. No one survuves except the poor comic shop owner who had to beat them over the head with piles of Ultimates 1 and Ultimates 2 books! :wink:

That is for all by buds in the Ultimate forum that don't like Ultimates 3.

[hawkeye comeback]

Venom chasing down spidey could be scary and could utilise the fact venom can be attached to anyone so Peter wouldn't know where venom was coming from.'

the K.I.A. storyline itself could be a good horror film simple stroy of vengeful villain trying to kill people and he cant be stopped

[marshal99]

Daimon Hellstrom is pretty much made for horror , the son of satan. In one of his appearances , he burned some amateur occultist alive for summoning HIM in a magical circle.

You could easily make Hellstorm some sort of supernatural killer. Some kids fool around with the occult and don't believe in a son of satan so they accidentially summon him. Of course , he comes and slowly slaughters those that summon him one by one until someone must find a way to send him back.

[HulkSmash666]

They've done Man-Thing, and it was a piece of dog shit.

[KetchFrayz]

every fan boys worst nightmare...


Mephisto and the Evil Retcon!



mwahahahhahaha!!!

[Shellhead]

Marvel has a metric ton of neat old villains that could easily be made into a good horror movie monster, though some of them could use less colorful costumes. Get those guys some old trenchcoats in place of the costumes.

Gladiator, the Daredevil villain with the buzzsaws on his wrists.

Controller, that big freak with the control disks who fought Captain Marvel and Iron Man.

Nicholas Scratch, the evil warlock who fought the Fantastic Four several times.

The Mad Thinker, because he has a 99.9999% chance of planning for anything that you try to do to stop him.

The Ghost of Van Stratten, a very freaky-looking ghost who was powerful enough to take on the Silver Surfer.

Carrion, a Spider-man villain with a creepy look, creepy powers, and a mastery of cloning tech.

That super-ninja that fought Iron Fist in the old days... he had mystic ninja abilities, fast reflexes, and kung fu.

Abomination. He's only seven feet tall, but fully capable of a city-wide rampage. Plus he looks creepy with those reptilian ears and all those tombstone shaped bumps on his head.

Yandroth, the Scientist Supreme who could destroy the Earth.

[Monty_Cristo]

the latest storyline in Avengers: The Initiative was a good horror movie. strangely enough, the stereotypical "good victims" all survived (Rage, Ant-Man, Geiger,etc). but Cloud-9, the virginal heroine, still ended up saving the day. i think round 2 could use Slapstick as the villain. he's got a lot in common w/ seemingly indestructible slashers.

[Carl Creel]

Annihilus
Wendigo
Mephisto in a hellbound hellraiser type flick
Mr. Hyde as a psycho killer
Nightmare

[drwho]

I think the island of krakoa could make a decent flick. An island that kills people. cool stuff.

[timomcshade]

strangely enough, the stereotypical "good victims" all survived (Rage, Ant-Man, Geiger,etc). but Cloud-9, the virginal heroine, still ended up saving the day.

Cloud 9 is my favorite character in that book. Don't know why. Maybe it is the innocence. You could take Trauma out of that book and make him a villian in a horror movie. That would be cool.