Stories by @optimistic_writer

Clark: A Superman Story

Being told through an interview, Superman tells various stories of how he has helped various people all over Metropolis by being the embodiment of hope. He also finds out that he is dying due to prolonged Kryptonite exposure over many years, that Lex Luthor is creating a satellite that could help but also destroy the planet, that the people of Metropolis might be stronger than he thinks, and why his marriage with Lois Lane failed.

Justice League International (1994)

What if we got a Justice League film in the 90s based on the comics at the time? A newly formed Justice League, after the previous one dissolved, are more focused on worldly threats, with one of those threats being the global terrorist, Maxwell Lord.

He Was #1

The life and story of Stephen Hillenburg, from his days interested in marine biology, to creating one of the most popular and greatest animated television programs of all time. As well as chronicling his efforts of marine life preservation and safety.

Advent of the Cat People

Now that the Bagheeta are becoming more and more apparent, the focus goes to one woman from the last film who never wanted to a part of the experiments in the first place, so she struggles with her sexuality. With this, she confronts the woman who started this to try and find answers, as well as struggling with her daughter who she now realizes has her curse as well.

Horror of the Creature

3 years after the events of the first film, the female lead is having nightmares about the creature and doesn’t believe he’s truly dead. So, she sneaks away to the Amazonian jungle to see if she can confront the beast. While she finds nothing attributing to his survival, she soon realizes that she’s either going crazy or the creature is heading to a new place for fresh blood.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

A man named Edward Pendrick survives a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean and is picked up by a man named Montgomery. While he initially refuses Pendrick to visit his island, he eventually takes pity on him and has him in a shack away from the main parts of the island. When noticing the strangeness of the situation and the island, he meets a mad doctor named Dr. Moreau. What he uncovers are strange experiments that will only lead to the most disastrous place.

Vow of the Wolfman

6 years after the events of the previous film, Larry is constantly trying to find a cure for his condition, as he can’t even find peace in death. With this, he enlists the help of various scientists, as well as an older Lonny, to help him before the full moon.

Curse of the Mummy

The mummy has been permanently freed from the Scroll of Life after it was destroyed in the last film. However, he can never reach peace once more, and is doomed to walk the Earth for all eternity. With this, the mummy tries to resurrect his wife in order to find some semblance peace. But when he finds her site desecrated, he tries to find the people responsible to punish them.

Redemption of the Invisible Man

After Mr. Hyde is finally vanquished, Inspector Gregory Dane begins to spiral into madness, like the Invisible Men before him. When Price and Paulson’s antidote fails to work, Dane realizes it’s up to him and only him to redeem the legacy of the Invisible Man and become a true hero. With this, he tries to track a mass arsonist, as well as solving various crimes with the various advantages of being invisible.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

C. Auguste Dupin is a private detective who is investigating the murder of two women. One has her throat slashed to the point where her head came off after the body was moved, and the other being stuffed in a chimney. He finds hair at the crime scene that isn't even human. It might not even be of this world. Dupin's investigation leads him deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole... until he reaches a point beyond the brink of sanity, but realizes he must keep going to solve the case of a lifetime.

The Invisible Man vs Mr. Hyde

Right after The Terror of Mr. Hyde ended, Claude Price is contacted to once again take the formula to stop the nefarious villain. While Price struggles with this decision, he decides to ultimately not take the potion, but offer it to someone else. It is taken by a young rookie police officer who wants to prove himself to his superiors. But despite Price’s help and realizing the cost of the formula, he begins to turn to the dark side while trying to stop Hyde once and for all.

Legend of Frankenstein

Over a century after the events of the previous film, Adam and his Bride are still buried under the ruins of the Frankenstein castle. A wide eyed and curious descendent of Victor Frankenstein, named Jonathan, wants to discover the roots of his family ancestry. What has now been a legend for many decades, is now re-awakened with Jonathan trekking to Germany and the locals warning him of the perils and horrors of the castle belonging to his family. At the same time, Nazis post-WWII are looking to create a perfect soldier and head to Frankenstein’s castle to find the original monster. What they find is Jonathan instead and they force him to reanimate the monster and his bride. He soon begins to realize why the name Frankenstein is cursed… and why it should remain a forgotten legend.

Mystery of the Cat People

Many years after the previous film, it’s believed that the Bagheeta, or the Cat People, are all but extinct after more people became aware of their existence. But when a panther is killing people in a city, people soon believe that the Bagheeta have returned. The woman responsible is a mad scientist wanting the Bagheeta to live once more by injecting old DNA into the hearts of women to make them the once mystical beings, beings of science. The only person who can stop them is an aging Detective and his son.

Tribe of the Creature

In the mid-1500s, a group of conquistadors are in the Amazonian jungle looking to explore lands of the New World. What they find is a group of Amazonian people that worship a god-like being who they believe is an evolved species of human. They even make sacrifices to the being in order to please it. Not believing them, the conquistadors begin to kidnap people and goods to bring back with them to Spain. What they don’t realize, is that they angered the being and are now targeted by it. Meanwhile, a slave of the conquistadors realizes the threat beforehand and tries to steer them away, but when he can’t, he must decide whether he will try to kill the creature, or side with the Amazonians.

Dracula's Wrath

In 1967, Count Dracula’s body is found where Quincey Harker killed him last time, in an old abandoned church somewhere in France. One of the men who finds the body starts receiving visions from Dracula to resurrect him and he does so. Dracula is once again brought back to life and this time, he wants vengeance against the Harker family for killing him.

Erik

Before the Phantom, there was Erik. It starts off in 1854 when a deformed child is birthed from an aristocratic couple. He grows to be a teenager, with a mask constantly on his face, and living in the attic, where he can’t be seen. Due to the torment from his mother, and being unable to leave the house, he runs away during a dinner party that his parents are hosting. He grabs a random coat and leaves. He is then found by gypsies where they find the inscription on the coat to be: Erik, so that’s what they call him. They accept him for who he is, and when he is not performing, they don’t have him wear his mask. He eventually becomes a very skilled musician and illusionist. He eventually gets to play for the Shah, who is vastly impressed with his skills. He has him stay in the palace as an entertainer. Meanwhile, he befriends a man named Nadir, who is sort of a bodyguard for the Shah. He lets him use the library, where Erik learns of construction, just like his father. Years later, he is sick of living in the palace as the Shah never fully accepted him for who he was unlike Nadir, and the gypsies. He yearns to leave, especially after a weary sexual encounter with the Shah’s daughter. Nadir decides he will smuggle him out of the palace and arranges for him to go to France. They leave together, and Erik eventually settles under the catacombs of the Paris Opera House where he builds various routes and traps for himself.

The Terror of Mr. Hyde

An unknown amount of time after the previous film, and Dr. Jekyll is pretty much no more, only Mr. Hyde remains. It involves Mr. Hyde going on a rampage while the authorities try to capture him. Even though Hyde is the main personality, there is still a little bit of Jekyll in there, and he tries to break free while Hyde goes on his rampage.

Cult of the Wolfman

In 1963, a young man named Lonny Creighton is the grandson of Gwen Conliffe, the lover of Larry Talbot. She tells him man stories of her first love and how he became a werewolf because of an accident. Recently, killings have started happening on the full moon and Lonny suspects it’s a werewolf. Suspicions start to arise when Larry’s coffin is empty. Is this the work of a deranged group of followers, or did they manage to bring Larry back from the dead and he’s going on a rampage?

Descent of the Invisible Man

2 years after the events of the previous film, Jack Griffin is still invisible and is still becoming a deranged maniac more and more. He is soon killed by the authorities and his assistant soon takes the potion to become invisible because he thinks he found a way for the user to not go mad. However, due to a much more potent formula, he actually becomes madder and more deranged, quicker and even more so. He once again goes on a killing spree just like the previous Invisible Man. His close friend tries to make a formula to cure him, but it might be too late.

Return of the Mummy

In 1927, it’s revealed that the original mummy did not die and he’s eventually found by an escaped convict currently running away from the authorities. The Scroll of Life is found with the mummy as well, and the convict uses the mummy to get rid of the police following him, as well as the people who betrayed him and got him in prison. When John Banning finds out about this, he has to stop him before he kills anyone else.