2. The "Slasher" Movie
Tarantino has managed to keep most of his creative endeavors based in some loose sense of realism, with the exception of his screenplay for the delightfully madcap
From Dusk 'til Dawn. That's been Quentin's only real foray into genre territory (I'm not including his work on
Natural Born Killers since he's pretty much disowned that movie) and I've been desperately awaiting his return to the horror genre. In particular, the bygone era of slasher movies. After this year's game-changing masterwork
The Cabin in the Woods, it's hard to think of what can be done to deconstruct the genre further. Only Quentin could let us know how to do it. Maybe he'd take his influence more from the slasher's predecessor, the Italian
giallo and make it more about the suspense and mystery behind the killer's identity. But my gripe with the slasher movie is this: after decades of movies, do we really care about the victims? We go to these movies because of the killers and to see how they are going to creatively dispatch a bevy of bodies, so why not make a movie where the killer is the main character? Let us spend time with the killer for the first act and maybe even create a very sympathetic character, so when the group of obnoxious teenagers comes along, the audience is ready to see our "hero" go kill crazy and relish in their darker side. Knowing Tarantino, I'm sure the movie would be hilarious and not what you'd expect. So what genre could be number 1 one this list? Well, it's the one we're probably most likely to see...