48

Our weekend will be consumed by this: a 48-hour filmmaking competition. Starts tonight, ends Sunday evening at 7.

The (voluminous) list of possible genres makes me want to choke on my own bile. A few highlights:

* African-American [Yes... in lily-white Wellington.]
* Blaxploitation [See above]
* British Empire
* Caper [Really quite easy... make a documentary about capers.]
* Chick Flicks or "Guy-Cry" Films [Errr, no.]
* Demonic Possession
* Desert Epics [Like Dune, right?]
* Erotic Thrillers
* Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
* Holocaust [Reaction: Stunned silence.]
* Man vs. Nature
* Older-Woman-In-Peril Films ("Psycho-Biddy", aka 'Hag Horror' or 'Hagsploitation') [This is not a real genre.]
* Mountain [This is really not a real genre.]
* Robots, Cyborgs and Androids [I had actually been hoping "Robots" would be a genre.]
* Searches/Expeditions for Lost Continents
* Social-Class Comedies ["Sir, an uprising of the proletariat has just taken over your factory." "Oh I say Jeeves, how smashingly frightful!" "Yes sir, and now I must show solidarity with my fellow workers by beheading you." "Dreadful, dreadful!"]
* Straight Action/ Conflict [This rules out gay action.]
* Sword and Sorcery (or "Sword and Sandal")
* Virtual Reality [We do not have an SFX budget.]
* Women in Prison