Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-6822927-20180811192309

I have an idea for a Lost Episode pasta with a few twists and turns designed to examine the genre as a whole.

My story isn't going to use an established show or make something up like Happy Appy. Instead, this will involve a supposedly cursed VHS tape that is not actually cursed.

No, the truth ends up being fat worse. See, it's not cursed, it's actually a prison for a creature from the Otherworld. Creatures from the Otherworld are trying to free their trapped brethren, leading to strange goings on.

However, in a twist from the usual, the imprisoned entity isn't actually malevolent and didn't do anything to earn their fate. It is being tortured by the imprisonment and just wants to go home. The creatures trying to free it are rescuers in this case.

The protagonist of the story thinks he is being genre savvy by not watching the tape, under the assumption it will drive him mad, and that he's the hero of the story by preventing whatever is imprisoned from being let out. When he finally watches the tape and sees the being is nothing like he imagined, just crying and sobbing to be released, he realizes that he's fucked up big time, and quickly gives the tape to the rescuers.

We then learn about the maker of the tape, who turns out to have knowingly condemned several people to their deaths by entrusting them with taking care of the tape to save his own skin. He then deliberately built up a legend about the tape to encourage others to search for and find it, in order to keep it as far away from him as possible. He gets what is coming to him in the end.

Could it work? 