Do you have an idea for a great horror film that is guaranteed to scare the ever loving shit out of audiences? Is your idea truly original and not a cheap rehash of an older horror flick? Then get your elevator pitches ready because you could be a producer on Ghosts in the Machine! Enter Massify.

Massify hopes to revolutionize community film making by putting its users in charge of the big decisions. Massify is partnering with After Dark Films to make Ghosts in the Machine. The feature will be included in After Dark Film’s Horrorfest 2008. If you have an idea for an awesome horror flick (Dead of Summer gang, looking at you), from now until March 17, you can pitch your idea to the Massify community. You can vote for your favorites from March 5 - 17. The top ten will go on to a second round of voting to select the winning pitch from March 18 - 25. Auditions for the cast begin March 12 and go until April 21. Two men and two women will be cast to play a lead role in the movie (hmmm… that actually could be some fun…). Voting for the cast goes from April 8 - 21. The top ten men and women will be flown out to a location for a screen test April 22 - May 12. Finally, you get to vote for the final cast from May 13 - 26. The two top man and woman will land lead roles, the two runners-up will land supporting roles.

This could be quite a lot of fun. It’s the ultimate democratization of entertainment, movie by interweb community. It’ll be interesting who the public decides to cast. Does the horror community want a diverse cast? Will ethnicity even matter? Will a regular guy or girl with a webcam be the next horror movie star? And will this attract any A-list or B-list actors?

Of course, this could be a disaster. Anyone remember when MTV asked us to choose a VJ? We gave them Jesse who turned out to be a completely insane and unintelligible freak.

However, I’m willing to bet that horror fans will genuinely want to create something awesome. Looking forward to seeing some of those audition tapes.

[Via Massify]

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