Creative inertia

Beating the system

In these difficult economic times we all know how important it is to protect ourselves against the Swoop and Squat insurance scam. This widely-hyped con, purportedly on the rise as people look for ways to make money that also involve potential life-ending injury, consists in the scammer pulling directly in front of a car and slamming on the brakes causing an accident that appears to be the victim’s fault.

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I never tire of zombies

From haiku to classic literature, zombies have been documented in every kind of genre and from almost every perspective. The zombie movie I won’t write would tell the tragedy of zombification from the first-person narrative of one of the walking dead.

The film would pose the most horrifying zombie scenario yet − what if you were still conscious after you became a zombie? Imagine the horror and dramatic implications of knowing the “real” person is still alive behind the zombie’s eyes, watching as their own body tears into living flesh; unable to even scream.

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