Okay, I figured the notes were the "wouldn't this be cool in a film" kind of thing. I know you say you don't want to make a movie with a message (neither do I) but I do think a movie needs a reason to exist and that comes from what it reveals about people. If the only thing driving a film is "we've got 17 buckets of blood left over from the last one" then what is produced is compelled to be deriviative and futile regardless of how the blood is thrown around. Bad Taste, for example (and remember that I haven't seen this for over a decade) makes a statement about greed and selfishness. It works as a film because viewers are able to make connections between the aliens hunger for fast food, their willingness to destroy humanity and things at are going on in the real world. Am I making sense on this?

So what kind of film do I want to make? I want to make a film that lots of people want to watch. I'd like to make people laugh, and I'd prefer not to make a film that gets a "yuk - what was the point of that" response when we post it on the internet. Debbie and I got talking about Feartopia in the car on the way home the other day and felt that could work quite well as a short film - what do you think of working on that idea as a first effort? I think that is probably a bit nearer my understanding of stuff, rather than the zombie thing. (SotD would be the only zombie film I've seen in the last 13 years or so.) How does that sound to you?