With his new nightmare acting gig and trapped in the monster’s realm, our hero is put to work on the vampire’s show. And the MC has plans to punish the annoying human for his impudence. Nobody disrespects a director and gets away with it.
Each nightmare film is a horror trope with a special master monster hired to torment the lead.
Before filming starts, Miss Walker, the assistant, gives our lead a rundown on the high level script but encourages improvisation. While not filming, the monsters are really chill out of the episodes, hang out backstage, and chat with the lead. But once the recordings are going, they’re very happy to lop off his head.
Since the monsters’ broadcasts have been using and influencing humans for years, our lead starts off with an advantage and high genre awareness. He’s seen horror movies before and knows the tricks the monsters pull on him. Annoyed, the MC starts to play dirty, laying traps and tricks to make the lead trip and fall at inopportune times, doors to get stuck, or secretly using two stalkers during the episode but the audience thinks there’s only one. After a few successes, the lead now finds himself failing and being transformed more often. Starting off as just a cute actress version of himself, the MC quickly starts pushing it more, turning the lead into the sultry horror girl trope. Trying to escape the sets in tight skirts and high heels, our lead is failing more often. Fed up one night, he uses the stiletto heels to fight back and stab an attacking hunter and the crowd goes wild. The MC is torn between the ratings spike of the HorrorWorld Honey winning and his annoyance with the human jeopardizing his whole show.
Trying to punish the lead to get him to quit galvanizes the lead and in turn, makes him a heroine to the monster audience. Our lead realizes that all the effort the MC is spending on him means he isn’t hurting other humans in their nightmares. So if he never quits, the MC isn't pulling in any new victims. Our hero stays on to save others, while the MC tries more and more to annoy him with ridiculous outfits and constant transformations.
The audience likes our human because he acknowledges it's a show, switches things up, and hassles the MC. Everybody likes to see a celebrity brought down. Our lead starts to go on a winning streak, so fewer transformations are bad for ratings. MC sends Miss Walker in for a sweeps week special. Thinking she just wants to put on a good show and will collaborate rather than try to kill him again, our lead takes it easy. She quickly gets down on all fours and starts to transform. We cut to him running around corners, scared out of his wits. A giant wolf-like monster comes barreling after him, breaking through doors and walls. She eventually catches up, chomps him by the stomach, and shakes him until he dies. He yells and complains as he recovers after the show and she slyly smiles for the first time.
Episodes/Stage ideas:
Our lead’s role and the stalker hunting him this time.
Sorority vs ghostly girl with knives that comes out of mirrors
Space station vs an alien creature
Lab vs zombies/mutant monsters
Circus vs axe wielding Igor-esq slasher (your strong silent type)
Olde Timey Town vs ghosts/possession. The player starts out being accused of being a witch and has to dodge townspeople and the night’s monster
Doll house vs doll with gigantic knife claws coming out of a doll style nub hand
Pyramid vs mummy
Castle vs vampire
Moors/Countryside vs a pack of werewolves
Vacationing tourist vs a Japanese Grudge-style monster
Ski Bunny vs a Thing-like creature