A couple of ideas:
*Dark dystopian comedy. At an indeterminate time in the future, the major religious groups in America now are bowdlerized and homogenized versions of the People's Temple and of the Manson Family. The story deals with radicalized groups within these faiths and how the everyday members of the faiths respond to them. Which normally involves the one accusing the other of being "a religion of hate" while the one whose members are acting up claims that the radicals are "misinterpreting Charles Manson's/Jim Jones' original peaceful message". The comedy of course comes from the fact that it is actually the ordinary faithful that are misinterpreting the message. And of course the whole thing is a satire of religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and how they snipe at each other (sometimes literally).
*A kaiju movie where the beast's rampage provoked by scientists trying to harvest it's body parts for superstrong materials to build a space elevator
*"chinese firedrill ecology" A comedy about a plan to revitalize the envronment by taking advantage of the fact that introduced species often displace native species. So they take all the endangered species from each continent and introduce them one continent over.
*There's a bunch of people with superpowers, but instead of becoming heroes of villains, they use them to get jobs in the adult entertainment industry. There's a guy with Beastboy style powers who uses his abilities to be the donkey in a donkey show, there's a guy with Matter Eater Lad style powers whose schtick is eating used condoms and tampons, etc.
*Spy film or superhero film where the villain is obsessed with The Odyssey. He seems to be launching missiles at countries that don;t pay his ransom but the missiles are a decoy to draw attention away from nuclear bombs he's already snuck into cities hidden inside of vehicles that have had their engines gutted of anything not essential to getting them into an inconspicuous legal parking space, the bombs being hidden under the remaining engine components (an oblique reference to the trojan horse).
He also has the usual compulsion to explain his evil plan to the hero, but he has the presence of mind to jab a pen or a screwdriver or something into the hero's eardrums first (sort of a ghoulish riff on the incident with the sirens' song). Unfortunately for him, the hero who finally defeats him can also read lips.
*A kung-fu movie where the weapons are over the top ridiculous and bizarre. Things like a polearm whose head is a big pizza wheel, giant shurikens the size of a discus or chakram that are still thrown like regular shurikens, enormous chopsticks used to pick up one's enemy, a "multidimensional staff" which is basically three staves tied together so that they're all perpendicular to each other, razorblades attached to the hands and forehead so that you can cut someone by headbutting or backhanding them, an impractically large "49 section staff", "reverse nunchaku" consisting of a chain which is attached to a rod which is attached to a second chain, dildo nunchucks, "double nunchucks" made of two sets of nunchucks connected perpendicular, a double-ended blade wielded as a staff that cuts up the user's hands since there isn't anywhere to grip it, a weapon based on a giant pair of scissors or hedge clippers, a giant swiss-army knife that opens up into different swords and polearms, a coolie hat with nunchucks hanging from it, freddy kruger gloves, ear blades, a sword blade that straps on to the groin like a giant dildo, a fighting style that relies on shoes and nailclippers, a hula-hoop with razor blades all around the outside, a katana and a wakizashi chained together to make "samurai nunchucks", spear stilts, recursive sai where each of the three prongs extends into three more prongs which extend into three further prongs and so forth, a cheese grater the size and shape of a washboard, a blowgun shaped like the letter "Y" thay shoots in two directions at once but neither of them are forward, a propeller beanie whose propeller is made out of four full-sized guandao, a blowgun specially designed to be farted into, flail or nunchuck earrings, a giant heavy iron chinese takeout container, a pole that you stick up your ass and then spin around on so that you can attack people in all directions with your regular weapons, a giant anime sword that's larger than a person, double-ended blowdarts, a hula hoop with razor blades around the outside, a combination of the flying guillotine from Flying Guillotine and the fart mask from
Jackass Number 2 so you have to throw the helmet onto someone's head and then fart into it through a tube and that kills them, etc.
THE KEENING:
The patriarch of an old irish family is dying -- or so it seems, from the family banshee's wails. He himself seems healthy, & does not believe that the rest of the family hears the wails -- which the family takes as evidence that he is the one who will die, since a family banshee can only be heard by members of the family whose death is not imminent. So, his two estranged sons are brought home, in preparation for one of them to take the inheritance. It is then discovered that the banshee is, in fact, a local keener -- a human professional mourner who has been paid by the patriarch to impersonate a banshee so that his sons would be brought home, as part of a test to determine if one of them is (as he suspects) illegitimate, the product of his late wife's affair (which she confessed to him on her death bed). The keener, apprehended, stays with the family during the storm that has just begun -- so they can keep an eye on her -- but the banshee wails continue that night, and the patriarch is found murdered in his bed the next morning. Our protagonist, the younger brother and second to arrive, suspects his elder brother -- a suspicion shared by the keener, with whom he has become romantically entangled after a series of encounters. The wailing is reported by the rest of the family the next night too, except the two brothers, neither of whom hear anything. In the dead of night, the keener kills the elder brother & her paramour finds her washing her bloody clothes by the river in the rain: she expected the two of them to get married, and was trying to protect the inheritance from a usurper from outside the bloodline proper. That night, for the first time, he hears the banshee wail -- and nobody else does, save the keener.
I like this. And I'm glad to hear from you again, I was worried you were gone for good.
