avidfilmbuff, I like the idea of Indy V as a horror movie, but not really in the Hammer-style, as it maybe a bit too 'campy'. That may be the wrong term, but Hammer were renowned for being lurid and gory.
Perhilion said:
as much as I'd love to see it, I don't think an Indy horror film would work. It wouldn't be scary 'cause Indy is in it and he aint afraid of no ghost.
There would be limitations in the horror genre due to the age-range that the film would have to encompass. On those grounds, Indy V could be
creepy, rather than gory. I remember a disney ghost film from long ago that built up quite a creepy tension.
I tend to view the worlds of Indy and Hellboy as similar - they are both really investigators who encounter strange, unexplained phenomena. The problem with most ghost and horror stories, though, is that the tension in the build-up is usually so much better than the actual reveal of the ghost/creature.
With an Indy film it's the journey of discovery that he makes that's important, as that's where the cliffhangers and adventure lie.
The ghost story at the beginning of the Monkey King script got a bit wild, but the premise was a good one.
So far with Indy movies we have seen Ghosts, the power of the Ark, a working voodoo doll, an 800-year-old knight, a wound-healing cup, beings from another dimension.
On that basis it's been a pretty wild journey so far, so the options are really still open for almost anything to turn up in Indy V.
I like the idea of the undead (Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead meets Hellboy: The Lost Army). It's a story that could take place in Africa, as that's the original source of voodoo, and is still practised there. I could see a film that begins in a creepy old European haunted castle, and then moves to Africa as the investigation develops.