Chapter 2: The Broken System

"As a horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre successfully delivers the viewing experience it needs to bring to the audience. It is not only terrifying but also engaging and heart-pounding. A horror film that opens with a murderer is not uncommon, but The Texas Chainsaw Massacre successfully creates a sensational family of killers with a clichéd opening."

"As long as there is a market for horror films, James Wan's work will probably continue to be sought after. Just like Nosferatu, Psycho, and Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre proves that excellent thrillers don't go out of style. Fear is a universal emotion, not limited by time."

"The character of Leatherface can be compared to classic horror figures such as Nosferatu, Frankenstein, King Kong, and Norman Bates (from Hitchcock's Psycho). It also made me remember the film's screenwriter, Allen."

"Four stars - Roger Ebert."

As James Wan had anticipated, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a huge box office success.

Halloween was originally a prime time for horror movies.

Coupled with the gimmicks of the director of Saw and the adaptation of a true story, theaters were clearly expecting The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to perform well at the box office.

With the promotion of the film company, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre landed in nearly 2,500 theaters last weekend and earned $30.31 million in its opening weekend, successfully topping the North American Halloween box office. It not only broke the first-week box office record for horror films, but also staged a classic counterattack for small-budget films with a production budget of less than $2.5 million.

With the frenzy caused by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, director James Wan once again laid a solid foundation for himself in the horror film field.

And Allen, the screenwriter of the film, also began to appear frequently in the mouths of major film companies.

However, as the behind-the-scenes screenwriter of the film, the benefits that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre brought to Allen were far less direct than those to the actors and director.

"Okay, I understand. I'll be there on time..."

On the phone, Allen did not hesitate to accept the party invitation from James Wan.

Hollywood, as a Vanity Fair, can never get rid of connections and relationships.

If Allen wants to remain active in this Vanity Fair, he naturally needs to establish and maintain his own network of connections.

Because of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he successfully got in touch with James Wan, and now, because of the box office success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this relationship is extending outwards.

Although the influence of a screenwriter is not as dazzling as that of a director or actor, as an important part of the Hollywood film industry, they still have their own piece of the pie.

"Haha, Allen, trust me, you'll absolutely love this party."

On the phone, James Wan was clearly in high spirits.

The success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre brought him great benefits. Because of the film's box office success, some film production companies had already started to discuss new film projects with him.

Therefore, he was especially grateful to Allen, who helped him create this situation.

This was not only because of their shared ethnicity but also because of their shared interests.

Allen regarded James Wan as his connection to enter Hollywood's Vanity Fair, and James Wan also regarded him as a future connection to cultivate.

"Whew~"

After ending the call with James Wan, Allen breathed a sigh of relief, and the smile that had been curving upwards on the corner of his mouth could no longer be suppressed.

"Success!"

He clenched his fist and made a celebratory gesture in his cheap apartment in Los Angeles.

The noisy quarrels and cries from the next room could not affect Allen's excitement at this moment.

After a few minutes of excitement alone, Allen calmed down and turned his attention to a broken panel in front of him.

【￥%……#￥】

【（%……&%#@（……】

Fine cracks like spider webs covered the entire panel, and the only part that could be displayed was full of garbled numbers.

A broken system was Allen's only gain from crossing over to this parallel world.

However, just as its appearance showed, this dilapidated system, judging from the display interface, was of no help to Allen's life after crossing over.

It neither made him a billionaire tycoon nor gave him extraordinary powers, and it didn't even display any specific functions.

It could be said that apart from occasionally jumping in front of Allen's eyes due to malfunction, hindering his vision and showing its existence, the broken system was of no help to his life after crossing over.

Therefore, after spending three days confirming that the system was as useless as it looked, Allen put away his wild thoughts and adapted to his current identity in an extremely low-key manner.

As a low-level member of the Writers Guild of America, he endured all kinds of overt and covert discrimination in the United States while "creating" his first film script.

Fortunately, perhaps because of the differences between parallel worlds, the course of history in this world was slightly different from the world Allen originally lived in. In terms of the big picture, his motherland had achieved reunification, while in Hollywood, some classic films that Allen knew had either died for various reasons or simply did not appear.

Just like the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a classic milestone in horror films, Allen did not find it in this world. Perhaps it was because something went wrong in the film's project approval process, or perhaps no one noticed the film's original story at all.

In short, because of the absence of classic horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the American horror film market seemed to have been affected by the butterfly effect. Although the general trend remained the same, there was something missing in the horror films.

This missing something might be insignificant to the entire Hollywood. After all, horror films were a niche genre in the Hollywood film market. But to Allen, it was undoubtedly an opportunity for upward mobility.

In this world, he was just a third-rate sitcom writer, with neither a strong background nor amazing creativity. He could only earn a meager income by writing some plots with corny jokes. Moreover, when Allen crossed over to this world, he was forced out of work because the sitcom he worked for was canceled, and his savings were almost exhausted because he could not pay the rent, facing the situation of living on the streets.

In the United States, once you lose your job and go bankrupt and become homeless, the possibility of making a comeback is almost negligible.

To avoid this worst-case scenario, after figuring everything out, Allen decided to go for broke, "creating" the script of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and desperately sending the script to major film production companies in Hollywood.

This method of casting a wide net was the most common, but also the most difficult, method for unknown screenwriters in Hollywood.

Fortunately, he won the bet in the end.

With the first payment from James Wan's crew, he successfully overcame the difficulties and made a name for himself in Hollywood.

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(End of chapter)