Karel Segers

615 points

1,885 points to Mentor

38 loglines
214 reviews

Loglines

After falling in debt to a crime family, a cocky mechanic is forced to strip stolen cars for an auto-garage, but when his love interest is killed in a hit-and-run caused by the family’s erratic nephew, he turns the family against itself to seek vengeance and escape the debt.

February 28, 2019
When a young man takes a decision to marry against a will of his controlling and psychotic mother, his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.

September 1, 2016
When a teenage girl is refused by her school girlfriends for still being a virgin, she decides to commit suicide when a sex offender kidnaps her.

August 30, 2016
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A dangerous serial killer is the only survivor in a plane crash, when she was transported to a different prison, she is rescued by tibetans from remote high mountain village. After being treated from her injuries she faces a choice to leave the village or to merry 7 brothers of a family who took care of her, according to their matriarchal tradition.

August 27, 2016
A good father and respected police officer is prisoned after he accidentally shot a young child, who was in the driving away robber?s car. He is trying to get his life back with a support of citizens of his city.

August 24, 2016
When corporate employees escaping a building blaze are machine-gunned down at the fire exit, a PR girl becomes trapped in a stairwell, and must outwit a deranged gunman.

August 7, 2016
When her shark-diving cage breaks off and sinks to the seabed, a first-time diver must resurface amidst a looming great white before her oxygen tank runs out. [In The Deep, 2016]

August 2, 2016
After a nuclear disaster that destroyed most of civilisation, a scientist encounters, and starts a life with a lone woman, but when they take in a drifting man, a love triangle emerges between them, and he must challenge the stranger?s intentions. [Z for Zachariah, 2015]

May 13, 2016
After witnessing a backstage murder, a punk band is forced into a back room by malicious skinheads, and must fight their way out to survive. GREEN ROOM [2016]

May 11, 2016
When a pawn store robbery turns deadly, a Hollywood stunt driver finds himself in possession of the loot, and must destroy the violent goons who want it back. [Drive, 2011]

May 7, 2016
When one of his tenants is found murdered, a young and na?ve landlord must find a killer lurking in a secret part of the building, or risk bankruptcy.

April 30, 2016
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When a doctor learns he has a kill-mate, a stranger that will be triggered to kill him if they cross paths, he must plot their murder, or risk a deadly encounter.

March 30, 2016
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When a young mother encounters a random woman in a crowd, she is mysteriously filled with an unceasing desire to kill her, and must do so before the other woman kills her first.

March 21, 2016
When a teenage girl is relentlessly followed by an unknown supernatural figure after a sexual encounter, she must have sex with someone new to stop it from following, and ultimately killing her.

March 19, 2016
When a group of holidaying students wake up to find themselves buried up to their necks on an isolated beach amidst the rising tide, they are left with nothing but a note telling them they are being watched, and among them is a mole. They must figure out who that is if they want to survive.

March 16, 2016
When an abducted news reporter?s ransom remains unpaid, her timid stalker must infiltrate a ruthless kidnapping ring before she?s executed.

March 6, 2016
Succesful lawer from Moscaw is obsessed with an american porn star, all attemts to meet her in person fail untill a brilliant idea comes to his mind to press charges against her.

February 16, 2016
Still living with mother, a 45 year old psychotherapist that uses a dubious flogging therapy struggles to make his own life proposing to his client, a young and rich business woman.

February 13, 2016
Two serial killers struggle to curb their appetites for carnage while avoiding each other?s path and dodging the law.

January 2, 2016
When a conservative man adjusts to life in a wheelchair, he suddenly finds it difficult to achieve an erection. Snubbed by his busy, self-centered wife, and desperate to reclaim his virility, he must use something he hasn?t in years: porn. (Short Film)

November 10, 2015

Recent reviews

on When a young man takes a decision to marry against a will of his controlling and psychotic mother, his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.

Thank you for reviews and opinions.?Could it be like this ? A young man devastated by his?fianc?? sudden disappearance, initiates his own?investigation which leads to his mother, uncovering?her dark side of love for her son.
on A dangerous serial killer is the only survivor in a plane crash, when she was transported to a different prison, she is rescued by tibetans from remote high mountain village. After being treated from her injuries she faces a choice to leave the village or to merry 7 brothers of a family who took care of her, according to their matriarchal tradition.

Thank you so much for opinions and advises. Maybe to go this way, in a comedy genre probably:?The serial killer wants to start a new life with a tibetan man who rescued her from a plane crash,?she falls in love…
on A dangerous serial killer is the only survivor in a plane crash, when she was transported to a different prison, she is rescued by tibetans from remote high mountain village. After being treated from her injuries she faces a choice to leave the village or to merry 7 brothers of a family who took care of her, according to their matriarchal tradition.

Another version. I Also decided to substitute "the serial killer" to a?nun.Survivor of a plane crash, a young nun finds herself in a remote high mountain tibetan village where she has to accept their matriarchal tradition and marry all the…
on A good father and respected police officer is prisoned after he accidentally shot a young child, who was in the driving away robber?s car. He is trying to get his life back with a support of citizens of his city.

Hi Nir and Craig, the?inciting incident happened when a cop doing his job to stop the robber, ?shoots at tires, he didn?t know that robber brought his (robber?s) child to the robbery and accidentally the bullet hits the kid, cop…
on After he smack-cams a deranged vagabond, a prankish vlogger must fight to survive when the stranger invades his home sporting a bloody billhook.

There's something really iffy about pranksters and vloggers as movie protags, I feel that if it worked well it would have been done a bit more by now. It is topical though. As Nir said the event needs to be…
on When her shark-diving cage breaks off and sinks to the seabed, a first-time diver must resurface amidst a looming great white before her oxygen tank runs out. [In The Deep, 2016]

Meant to be in Classics*
on A war has broken out because an English citizen was out trying to survive in the Amazon and started burning the Amazon rainforest down. An American military aircraft pilot was flying over the Amazon rainforest and spotted him and didn?t like that he started a fire in the Amazon rainforest. Now the English want our territory.

Hey Luke, did you download the checklist? Also, check out the tips on how to write a logline.First question you may expect: who's the main character?
on A war has broken out because an English citizen was out trying to survive in the Amazon and started burning the Amazon rainforest down. An American military aircraft pilot was flying over the Amazon rainforest and spotted him and didn?t like that he started a fire in the Amazon rainforest. Now the English want our territory.

Hey Luke, did you download the checklist? Also, check out the tips on how to write a logline.First question you may expect: who's the main character?
on After witnessing a backstage murder, a punk band is forced into a back room by malicious skinheads, and must fight their way out to survive. GREEN ROOM [2016]

Thanks. I was thinking about mentioning the MC, but it really dopes feel like one group up against the other in the film. It is actually a little more than being stuck in a room. At first they're forced in,…
on After the king asks him to serve as his advisor, the lord of the North discovers the murder plot of his predecessor as an attempt to cover up the heir’s illegitimate claim to the throne.

I think this is the best plot for the logline. However, when the series was described to me from friends in 2013, the white walker plot was placed right upfront, as well as the fact that the seasons last about…
on When a pawn store robbery turns deadly, a Hollywood stunt driver finds himself in possession of the loot, and must destroy the violent goons who want it back. [Drive, 2011]

A film that's always in my mind. FWIW, it started out as a neo noir book, which now has an fantastic sequel likely as a result of the film. There's a comic series too which is based on the books…
on When a local library begins shredding it’s books due to the popularity of e-readers, a limited edition copy of Macbeth must lead his Shakespearean archive to safety at the National Archive before they’re shredded too.

I'd try not to use the word archive twice. i really like this premise, it feels that since MC is limited edition he feels he's entitled to lead the pack.
on After an unemployed single dad loses his home, he struggles to get it back by working for the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.

I would rephrase it a bit. "When an unemployed single dad has his home foreclosed, he must work for the real estate broker who evicted him in order to gain back his house." Something like that, "he struggles" sounds off…
on After being pressured by the cops to turn informant a teen is sent on a run by her drug dealer boss, who is holding her younger sister, knowing this run will get her killed.

Logline really confused me. I don't know why her knowing a piece of information wold get her killed.
on When a secret society of intellectual samurai compromise a tech company’s financial software, a psychic strategist must decode an ancient work of popular Japanese fiction before the global economy collapses.

I find it best not to have two complicated elements in your log line. You have "intellectual samurai's" and "psychic strategist." This sounds like a comic book adaptation where there's already a pool of fans who know and understand the…
on When one of his tenants is found murdered, a young and na?ve landlord must find a killer lurking in a secret part of the building, or risk bankruptcy.

I'm also wondering if the stakes are pretty much implied inside the action: EDIT "When one of his tenants are found murdered, a young landlord must eliminate a killer lurking in a secret part of the building."
on When a teenage girl is relentlessly followed by an unknown supernatural figure after a sexual encounter, she must have sex with someone new to stop it from following, and ultimately killing her.

EDIT:?After a sexual encounter, a teenage girl realizes she is being followed by a ghastly shapeshifter, and must retain a distance from it to stay alive, or sleep with someone new to pass on the deadly curse. This movie really…
on When one of his tenants is found murdered, a young and na?ve landlord must find a killer lurking in a secret part of the building, or risk bankruptcy.

Thanks Richie. Well he's young 20-23ish, so I think that's more important than their psychology (naive - which as you said is one and the same with youth). Re: BANKRUPTCY/stakes. You've brought up exactly what I wanted brought up. The…
on When a teenager loots methamphetamine from a crime scene, he must sell to it to pay for his dads failing business before the owner, a psychopathic cop, hunts him down.

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on When a doctor learns he has a kill-mate, a stranger that will be triggered to kill him if they cross paths, he must plot their murder, or risk a deadly encounter.

I have to say I prefer them both being 'good' people in society. I favour the antagonist being a whistleblower, but being an evil CEO that people would like to see dead just because of his socio-economic standing bores me…