"Abominable".

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis

Monday March 27, 2006 16:23

by Mick

My idea for a new horror movie

The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast.
The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe.
Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul.

Roll opening credits.

The Irish part of the story begins with Gearoid, Padraig, Sean, Aine, Aisling agus Maire, a group of anti-war protestors at Shannon who have decided enough is enough and troop flights and rendition flights through the airport have to end one way or another. This part of the story developes the characters, their heart felt and sincere concerns about human rights and will detail the injustices of the "War on Terror" which motivate their direct action.
They plan to breach the wire under cover of darkness and sabotage the aircraft on the apron.
They get inside the perimeter as a male and female garda alone on sentry duty are distracted as they take the opportunity to get steamy. But eventually the alarm is raised and the intrepid demonstraters find themselves floodlit and surrounded by gun totting American and Irish troops.

Meanwhile a US cargo plane is on final approach with a batch of detainees in orange jumpsuits who are terrified by the noise coming from insides a metal cargo container. The yeti insides breaks free and proceeds to slaugther and devour the passengers.
One the ground the demostrators and soldiers watch in horror as the plane fireballs into the ground.
But the Yeti has survived and is on the lose.
You can imagine the rest as the beast rampages slaughtering everyone in sight and destroying the airport.
It is up to the six brave heroes and heroines to save the innocent townspeople of Shannon and Ireland from the blood thirsty but misunderstood creature using peaceful means with the help of the bumbling garda lovers (who naturally don't survive but die redeemed from their facist mindsets). In the happy but tearful ending the Yeti returns to its cave in Tora Bora while the US leave Afghanistan and Iraq in defeat.

The movie will be a parable for how US foreign policy has unleased a monster that threatens us all