Crossover Horror: Do B-Movies Need a Happy Ending?

How do you turn a blood-soaked slasher, horror, violent cult movie into a scene where the killer, murderer, butcher, monster, or villainous boss tries to win someone’s heart?

Answer: Put a Tom in it.

While everyone else screams in terror and scrambles to escape the killer’s pursuit, Tom just looks baffled and helplessly turns down the killer’s advances.

In short: Tom’s everyday struggle to survive in B-movies.

❗An Eastern heartthrob, a beautiful male lead, and a memoryless reincarnation through different worlds. His personality changes with each world.

⭐Possible worlds:

1. You Asked for It (Complete. Readers say it may be quite angsty, so read with caution): He goes on vacation in the suburbs, only to run into a pair of nasty twins.

A people-pleasing victim x two utterly cruel brothers

Two brothers with genial smiles and impeccable manners knock on the door. They ask to borrow some eggs.

No one could imagine the countless corpses already piled up behind this harmless request.

Only this time, the brothers are the ones in for a surprise: they’ve run into someone unbelievably easygoing!

The shy, black-haired young man cheerfully bustles around taking care of them.

The brothers are even more eager to tear off his pretty, hypocritical mask.

(Read this world with caution!)

2. Medieval Battle Royale (Complete): A lord and three other powerful men seek out a group of beauties, hoping to stage a hunt in the woods. Also known as: The kidnapped boy’s revenge.

The four men are utterly depraved bastards, planning to create a blood-soaked hunting ground. But then they encounter a beauty of unprecedented allure! The nobles and their tall, handsome retainers are all captivated by him.

❗The villains are truly vile, so proceed with caution! Only the final chapter has much to do with the battle royale. ❗Dark comedy, read at your own risk.

3. The Purge: Murder is legal on the annual Purge night!

A brainwashed sacrificial victim x a naturally born homicidal maniac

Tom willingly offers himself up on Purge night, all to cleanse the wicked of their sins. But the killer changes his mind and takes him home to have his way with him.

4. Maniac Wrestler: A minor actor in an adult film sneaks into a mysterious town with the film crew. Thinking the killer is his scene partner, he propositions him.

A gorgeous beauty who loves showing off his body x the world’s greatest wrestler

5. (Recommended) Flowers in the Attic: He buried his life at Foxworth Hall deep in his heart. There, he became a mother to his younger siblings and the beloved daughter of their grandfather.

Everyday soap-opera drama, a dark and twisted relationship, and pseudo-incest.

6. (Recommended) The Thing: At an isolated Antarctic research station, one of the eight men is a monster. Meanwhile, he discovers his belly is slowly growing.

(There may be childbirth and a researcher mother’s love; the pain of a biological family from the monster world, like, “Mom still doesn’t love me today.”)

Nonhuman love interest in the early stages, snowy wilderness murder-mystery, a touch of Lovecraftian horror.

7. (Light comedy) The Dumb Kid’s Great Escape: A goofy boy takes a police officer hostage and travels a thousand miles to find his family. The state troopers are afraid to endanger the hostage, so a whole procession of police cars escorts them.

Bubbly and lighthearted.

8. (Adults Only) The Great Train Robbery: Six days and nights of a horny man and train robbers getting it on aboard a train.

The melodrama is in full swing.

⭐Before you read:

1. B-movies are low-budget films with simple, blunt plots, usually focused on gore and violence.

2. The worlds aren’t all based on B-movies. Some have pairings and some don’t, depending on the original film.

3. There’s also My Charming Harem in Western Horror Movies, with the same protagonist. You don’t need to have read it, and you don’t need to know the original films either.

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5. The pinned posts have slightly more detailed introductions to each world for reference.

The next story I may start: My Beloved in Western and Japanese TV Dramas

Sauron, Lord of Mordor, expended most of his power to forge the One Ring. It can bewitch hearts and amplify greed, leaving its bearer pathologically obsessed with it.

Who would have thought the Ring would turn into a beauty!

The beauty has a fatal allure, especially for villains. He can always disguise himself as seemingly harmless prey, patiently waiting for the so-called hunter to take the bait.

The Lord of the Rings: A beauty born from the Ring bewitches a host of heroes. His master laughs in satisfaction, unaware of how adoringly he gazes at the Ring.

A Song of Ice and Fire: Mad King Targaryen marries a beauty by force. The great lords gossip, but fall silent when they see the new queen at the tourney. After the Mad King is murdered, the usurpers turn their eyes to the late king’s widow.

The Godfather: Don Vito Corleone led a wild life when he was young. Years later, on his youngest daughter’s wedding day, his rebellious younger son brings home his lover. But Don sees only the handsome former lover he hasn’t seen in years.

Reading guide:

1. As everyone knows, soap operas are full of tangled relationships, and Western melodramas are even more convoluted. All the romances get thrown into one pot.

2. Men and women alike love the Ring. Who could possibly resist it?

Theme: Goodness and beauty will prevail.