good inspirations for BTS and lazlo society

[glitterboy2098]

as i mentioned in another thread, we should make a list of movies, books, TV shows, and so on that represent Good BTS roleplay and themes.

by good i mean a great emphasis on intellegence, investigation, and inventiveness. few "save the world" plots, except as the culmination of a long running story arc, and a great emphasis on the people involved having to work "in the shadows" and out of the public view, or against public opinion.

my suggetions: for the investigative side of BTS:

season 1 of the X-files (can't speak for the other seasons myself, but season 1 was very BTSy)
From Hell
Sleepy Hollow
The Haunting (the 1963 version preferably.*)
Sherlock holmes stories (no supernatural, but lots of good investigation inspiration.) the hound of the baskervilles is a particulalrly BTS like holmes story...



*1963's The Haunting had a dialoge that is almost perfect BTS...
Eleanor Lance: I'm still so terrified from last night.
Dr. John Markway: Don't be. It's silly to be...
Eleanor Lance: Silly? You haven't been through it! This horrible unknown thing!
Dr. John Markway: 'Unknown.' That's the keyword. 'Unknown.' When we become involved with an event of the supernatural we're frightened out of our wits just because it's unknown. The night cry of a child. A face on the wall. Knockings, bangings. What's there to be afraid of? You weren't threatened. It was harmless like a joke that doesn't come out.
Eleanor Lance: But the child...
Dr. John Markway: There was no child, remember? Just a voice.
Eleanor Lance: A voice.
Dr. John Markway: Look, Eleanor, put it this way. When people believed the earth was flat the idea of a round world scared them silly. Which is the same with the world of the supernatural. Until we know how it works we continue to carry around this unnecessary burden of fear just because it's unknown.
Eleanor Lance: Supposing it is in my imagination. The knockings, the voices. Every cursed bit of the haunting. Suppose the haunting is all in my mind.
Dr. John Markway: I wouldn't put it that way. We all resist the idea that what ran through the garden the first night was a ghost. What banged on the door was a ghost. What held your hand was a ghost. There is something going on in Hill House. We're getting close, very close to finding out what it is.

[mrloucifer]

Some of thee best inspiration Ive had includes the following;



Movies:
-The Changeling (the greatest Ghost Story ever filmed)
-Hellboy (Scrap the demon and mutant amphibian and you’ve got the Lazlo Society)
-The Sixth Sense
-Unbreakable
-The Crow
-Stir of Echoes
-Dog Soldiers
-the Blade Films
-Demon Knight
-The Prophecy
-Alien
-In the Mouth of Madness (underrated genius of a film)
-The Descent
-Poltergeist
-The Wicker Man (Original version, NEVER EVER watch the “remake”)
-Manhunter
-Candyman
-The Hills have Eyes
-House
-Pet Cemetery
-The Ruins
-Universal Soldier
-Zodiac

TV:- Kolchak: The Nightstalker
-Fringe (Basically X-files with a emphasis on Bad Science)
-X-Files
-Supernatural
-The Dresden Files
-Buffy Vamp slayer and Angel

Comics/Books:-Hellboy
-Rouge Angel Series
-The Dresden Files
-Zombie Survival Guide (underneath the humor is a gold mine of useful info)

Video Games:-The Condemned series
-Resident Evil Series
-Eternal Darkness
-Tombraider Series
-Half Life Series
-Call of Cthulu: Dark corners of the earth
-Fatal Frame
-F.E.A.R.
-Silent Hill

[mrloucifer]

Actually, Condemned has been a HUGE influence on my game. Crazed bums, psychic serial killer that stalks other serial killers, hunting through condemned buildings... Ive even created tools similar to those used by Ethan for the Parapsychologist in my game.

The key to amking this work is to use the influence, not the sotry. my game doesnt involve the FBI, its the group hunting for the killer under the Lazlo Agency banner, and the psychic serial killer is has a demonic benefactor helping hinm behind the scenes, and there are hints of a cult also involved they may contend with in the future.

Its been a wild ride, but fortunately my gang can handle it. Its also fortunate that none of them really play viddeo games to see a possible connection to the condemned games.

[mrloucifer]

When I was able to play games, I always started them out by going down the familiar road and then turning it on it's head.

One of the best games we did was a survivor-horror based off Starship Troopers, Jedi Knight, and Aliens of all things. They were sent out to find out what happened to a remote military base/outpost only to have it overrun again by an alien hoard. To escape they had to make their way down through the sewer system in work their way back around to their ship.

They all knew the plot but thought they could just stand and fight (as in the movie) at first, it took two being killed trying to be macho to realize that running was the point. Even had recordings and messages from the former inhabitants they found warning them against staying.

It seemed these players forgot the point that BTS wasnt made for macho characters.