AI Director Dave Clark @Afraid2Sleep
Dave saw a vintage 1982 Datsun 200SX print ad and thought… this should be a grindhouse horror movie.
Used Grok + ChatGPT as my creative partners to make The Datsun Massacre — an 80s slasher about a killer Datsun made with AI. 🚗💀
How I used LLMs to make this ridiculous 80s slasher trailer:
Idea Jamming: Threw “killer 1982 Datsun” into Grok + ChatGPT, iterated until we had the tone.
Trailer VO Script: Had ChatGPT iterate on my over-the-top campy 80s-style narration line by line, complete with grindhouse taglines.
Shot List Creation: Broke the script into a scene-by-scene and shot-by-shot breakdown for easy AI generation.
Prompt Engineering: Used Grok and ChatGPT to turn each shot into detailed Midjourney image prompts and Veo/Runway text-to-video prompts.
Style Lock: Tuned the prompts into YAML prompts to match the VHS grain, retro lighting, and cheesy ad layouts of the early 80s.
Marketing Hooks: Brainstormed X posts, headlines, and grindhouse taglines with ChatGPT to package the trailer for reach. #horror #slasher #ai #aiart #aivideo #midjourney #movie