Not sure where this is coming from. I have been having a weird dream, not the dream where I come up for more ideas, perhaps that might be the case, but I cannot see it yet. The theme is Salems Lot, by Stephen King. I have been re dreaming parts of it, the part where the kid and the writer go after the people in Salems Lot. But not what happened in the movies. The settings are disjointed, it is like the setting has been changed, the led characters are on the run and time is running out. It seemingly is about declining times. But there were a few upsides, but those elude me now.
There was something else, it came to me and it will come to me again. My memory blows at time. The setting that I do see, is that there is a remake upon remake on a movie that already is good enough and that cannot be the setting, after that we get that the book is not my favourite one that Stephen King has given us ad he has given us a lot. The version that played in my mind was the one with David Soul and Lance Kerwin, but the scenes were never filmed, or not in a way I saw it. They were wearing silver glasses and the glasses were projecting crosses in front of them. That never happened in either the book or the movies (both of them). Like glasses with led, projecting light in front of them, the crosses are mere icons to light the way. But then I got to think, as we have a more set version of horror, the Arabic lands do not. So where are there versions of horror? Where are their portrayal of the Jinn? We never saw them in the west, but that doesn’t mean none were made. What happens when we unite modern knowledge with folk tale? What happens when western scientists happen to stumble upon early writings and wake up this chapter of evil? That might be the declining timeline I am seeing. The fact that this hasn’t happened yet and someone has to become the first. The islamic population is globally around 2 billion. What happens when someone is the first? What happens when we create a new type of horror? Set on the foundations of writers who have distinguished themselves? Consider the impact that a series like American Horror Story had, now take that approach into a new area, the scientific one and cross it with Arabic legends from the past?
That might be the line of inquisition. You see, we see the forward notion that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have, but that increase will need entertainment and as I see it players like Abu Dhabi Media Network and others could use an upgrade. They are getting more and more viewers. I think that they could up their game in the horror setting. I reckon there s only so much drama and fake reality TV any audience will accept and horror is as good a place as any. Science fiction and other settings will evolve in their own time and partly it is fueled what America and Canada bring, but the setting of Horror is out in the open. Horror is based on what we fear or what brings us anxiety and I reckon that most Arabs will how with laughter on what the stories of the Nun brings them, but take that into a new realm and give them a setting of what western excavation brings (together with Arabian scientists) and they unearth a book on the life of Al-Malik al-Aswad as they unearth a never before seen version of Kitāb al-Bulhān and from there the pages unfold a reality brought forth by a jinn and it affects the world. I reckon that will get the Arabic population lose a few nights of sleep. And would you know it, 2 billion viewers could be talking day (and night) about what could happen next. Not a bad audience to cater to.
Mission accomplished. Have a great day, it is 04:00 on Sunday, I still have hours to go until my breakfast.
Lawrence van Rijn - Law Lord to be 