Feigning credibility by pretending your film and idea is real does not work. People such as Whitley Strieber and Richard Hoagland may echo my sentiment when I beg you to stop pretending your great spooky idea may be based on real events. There is a genre called science fiction and horror for a reason. The operative word there is fiction. Just because you shoot something in first person doc style with a handheld and infrared does not warrant true story. Tell a fictional tale and get us interested in your story. Use dialogue and suspense rather than shaky cameras and douchebag home videos of people being scared. I assure you, the art of storytelling is alive and well in this era of cheap and easy pseudo-reality TV style of filmmaking. Barring very few exceptions, your idea will be lame, void of tension and overall tripe. Moreover, the subject in which you dabble happens to be a legitimate science and your mockery of such lessens its credibility.

So, I implore you: Like the great science fiction writers before you, spin a gripping, scary yarn of ghosts or aliens without the use of cheap mockumentary tactics. You might find yourself with a great work that will last the ages and may become part of our spooky subconscious lexicon rather than a hokey made for TV style spoof. Things go bump in the night followed by murky shadows in our bedroom every night. Lets put down the handicam and lay there, afraid.

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