1975 film post: Incubus

Deep in the northern wilderness of California a family is on vacation through the woods. As they are driving around dusk they hit something and get a flat tire. When the family attempts to change the flat, there dog darts out of the car and into the near by forest. They follow the dog and walk further into the woods. They come to a clearing in the woods and see a campfire with a little boy who is playing with the dog. They soon realize that this is the Incubus Cult that a near by community had warned the family about and the terrible things they do. Despite the warnings, the family needs some where to stay and these people seem nice enough. The cult welcomes them and is very nice to the husband and the boy, while they are indifferent about the women. Both of the male characters get trapped in the cult and start to become part of the worships of Incubus. They don't even notice as the women disappear only to never be scene again, and the men join the cult.We made this movie rated R on the MPAA rating scale for violence, language, and some nudity. This will narrow our audience to only people over 17 but is a vital component to our movie. 

This story line will work very well in a 1975 movie era. There were many horror films coming out at this time like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We went with a stile similar to The Exorcist to make our movie seem very real with minimal special effects. This is a common genre at this time and brought in a lot of money for a relatively small scale production. We used many of the people who worked on The Exorcist like William Fredkin who is our director and Dick Smith as our makeup artist which will be our main focus of this movie. We also used Laurel Group Inc. from Light of the Living Dead as our studio, and Bryanston Pictures from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Devil's Rain as our distributing company. Our cast consisted of Richard Dreyfuss from Jaws as our dad, Julie Christie a popular star at the time as our mom, Melissa Sue Anderson from Little House on the Prairie as our little girl, Jason Baeman as our boy, Clint Eastwood from Dirty Harry as the cult leader, and Dustin Hoffman from The Graduate ad a cult member.

I think that our group worked very well together and did not disagree with much. The only thing that I thing that we might have disagreed on was the genre of the movie. I felt that it would have been better if we had done a big picture blockbuster like Star Wars or done a war film.