Mythophobia

A fear of myths or stories or false statements, according to phobialist.com.

This is the title of my next collection of songs, as well as my next screenplay. Interesting idea, I think, being deathly afraid of something that doesn't exist.

My idea is about a group of people who basically imagine this creature and become terrified of it. This isn't an ogre or a troll or something else that is folkloric or mythical--it's something they made up themselves.

The truly weird thing is these people--there are around twenty of them--are from all over the world and they never had any contact with each other before they developed this condition.

It's an examination of fear, of how a community can form out of a group of strangers who all have one huge common trait.

It's also a slasher film--one of them is killing the others off. Or *is* it one of them? Maybe their imaginary creature *isn't* imaginary . . . maybe all of them concentrating their terror of this thing in one physical location somehow created this thing out of nothing, and now it's stalking them . . .

I won't provide the answer I came up with here--you'll have to watch the film if I can write this thing and get it made. But I can tell you it's not what you're thinking--hopefully this will be a true surprise ending and not one of those "Hollywood" surprise endings, which only seems to surprise people in the film industry but which anyone who has seen a movie in the last ten years can see coming from watching the trailers.

Anyways, what do you think? Potential for something? Or not?