Synopsis/Details
A minor cigarette company (fictitious) in an attempt to compete for more market share, gets their resident scientist,
Bill Dicks to invent a super-addictive cigarette, joking, "It should be so addictive, even the dead should come back
for more". But it really starts to happen.
Smokers, who have died from smoking-related illnesses caused by the Special cigarettes, rise from the dead and demand
to smoke. But, since their bodies have decomposed, they have no lungs left, so they have to psychically remove the lungs
from living smokers, then absorb them into their own bodies, to be able to smoke the Specials.
Eventually the undead smokers run out of smokers' lungs to appropriate, so have to resort to kidnapping living non-smokers
to suck out their lungs. And so it starts.
This is a horror satire black comedy and as such has a logic of its own.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Hero's Journey
Story Situation:
Remorse
Story Conclusion:
Ambiguous
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Guilt, Wrong
Cast Size:
Many
Locations:
Few
Special Effects:
Blood, Significant cgi, Significant pyrotechnics
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Adult
Hero Type:
Ordinary
Villian Type:
Corrupted
Stock Character Types:
Everyman
Advanced
Subgenre:
Black/Dark, Gore, Horror Comedy, Psychic Powers, Survival
Action Elements:
Pyrotechnics
Equality & Diversity:
Intolerance Focused
Life Topics:
Parenthood
Time Period:
Near future
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Illness Topics:
Physical
Relationship Topics:
Domestic, Emotions and feelings