A very odd combination, I know, mixing Christian-Based-Stories with Horror, but I will explain. Last night I was meditating on personal hatred and how personal hatred is murder in the eyes of our Lord.
I began contemplating a comparison on how we must love our enemies, but hate the wicked-things they do, and, as weird as it sounds, the movie, Aliens, came to mind. People become impregnated with an evil alien [or thoughts or spirits], but it's not their own fault for becoming a host of wickedness, it's the mother alien [or Satan].
Then, soon, I thought about how these aliens would leave the host once they were full-term, and I thought of Alien -vs- Predator when the one girl pleaded for the other to shot her, to end the pain or stop the creature from exiting her body where it could spread.
I dwelt on the emotional distress of having to kill someone, whose been infected with something evil so it doesn't spread and impregnate [or corrupt] others, full-well knowing that it wasn't there fault and to see someone slaughtered by the same creature would be traumatic and devastating.
Am I making sense? I hope so, because the problem I'm having, is I would like to write a story, where a group of people become impregnated by an evil creature and once it's let loose it kills and or infects other people, but I don't want it to sound like a rip-off of Aliens.
I wanted the characters to have their own sinful natures. I'll be following the list of sins given in Galatians 5:18-21, and the main character, will be a self-righteous person, who believes in God, despises the evil things her cohorts do, but she is guilty of personal hatred, herself.
Everyone becomes impregnated by this alien/creature: the Christian metaphor bring that no one is pure of heart or guiltless of sin.
As the creatures break from their host, the character realize those infected have to be destroyed, or they have to be helped, by say, surgically removing the parasite from within them, even if the chance of them dying from the surgery his high.
I also had the idea of introducing a second set of aliens, which come to destroy the parasitic ones, in a 'Great Tribulation'-like metaphor, because that is the essence of the Great Tribulation: evil destroying evil.
Again, I don't want this to sound like a rip-off of Aliens / Alien - vs - Predator.
Basically, in the end, the self-righteous girl and some other people survive, but she's guilt-ridden because her co-workers were killed and maybe even some of them she had to kill, herself, so the alien didn't spread.
She ends up realizing that, though she thought ill-things against them and wished ill-happenings, she never actually wanted them to be murdered - slash - she never wanted to murder them.
I'd kind of like to make it gory and disturbing just so I can get across the emotions that when it comes right down to it, someone may irritate you, they may believe differently, believe wickedly, but it's the things they do you hate, not the person themselves, because if you feel personal-hatred for them, you've committed murder and, in real-life, few people will actually endure the graphic, traumatic, and disturbing slaughter.
So, any ideas on how to make this sound more original and not like a rip-off of sci-fi blockbusters would be awesome, and honest opinions on whether or not it's a stupid idea or if this sounds uber cheesy would be nice too.
I began contemplating a comparison on how we must love our enemies, but hate the wicked-things they do, and, as weird as it sounds, the movie, Aliens, came to mind. People become impregnated with an evil alien [or thoughts or spirits], but it's not their own fault for becoming a host of wickedness, it's the mother alien [or Satan].
Then, soon, I thought about how these aliens would leave the host once they were full-term, and I thought of Alien -vs- Predator when the one girl pleaded for the other to shot her, to end the pain or stop the creature from exiting her body where it could spread.
I dwelt on the emotional distress of having to kill someone, whose been infected with something evil so it doesn't spread and impregnate [or corrupt] others, full-well knowing that it wasn't there fault and to see someone slaughtered by the same creature would be traumatic and devastating.
Am I making sense? I hope so, because the problem I'm having, is I would like to write a story, where a group of people become impregnated by an evil creature and once it's let loose it kills and or infects other people, but I don't want it to sound like a rip-off of Aliens.
I wanted the characters to have their own sinful natures. I'll be following the list of sins given in Galatians 5:18-21, and the main character, will be a self-righteous person, who believes in God, despises the evil things her cohorts do, but she is guilty of personal hatred, herself.
Everyone becomes impregnated by this alien/creature: the Christian metaphor bring that no one is pure of heart or guiltless of sin.
As the creatures break from their host, the character realize those infected have to be destroyed, or they have to be helped, by say, surgically removing the parasite from within them, even if the chance of them dying from the surgery his high.
I also had the idea of introducing a second set of aliens, which come to destroy the parasitic ones, in a 'Great Tribulation'-like metaphor, because that is the essence of the Great Tribulation: evil destroying evil.
Again, I don't want this to sound like a rip-off of Aliens / Alien - vs - Predator.
Basically, in the end, the self-righteous girl and some other people survive, but she's guilt-ridden because her co-workers were killed and maybe even some of them she had to kill, herself, so the alien didn't spread.
She ends up realizing that, though she thought ill-things against them and wished ill-happenings, she never actually wanted them to be murdered - slash - she never wanted to murder them.
I'd kind of like to make it gory and disturbing just so I can get across the emotions that when it comes right down to it, someone may irritate you, they may believe differently, believe wickedly, but it's the things they do you hate, not the person themselves, because if you feel personal-hatred for them, you've committed murder and, in real-life, few people will actually endure the graphic, traumatic, and disturbing slaughter.
So, any ideas on how to make this sound more original and not like a rip-off of sci-fi blockbusters would be awesome, and honest opinions on whether or not it's a stupid idea or if this sounds uber cheesy would be nice too.
As you describe it above, it does sound like the Aliens franchise, but I know of several other books/movies with similar plots. Scott Sigler's recent book Infected comes to mind right off. Richard Matheson's Haunting of Hell House did something similar years ago, but with evil, oversexed spirits. The current popularity of zombie books/movies also deals with this idea in its own way.
