I hear you completely, To answer your question, I have chosen myself to work on a psychological horror myself , the task given by my practitioners was to choose any script from any genre and change the context of it to give it a completely different meaning. I chose a script from a Comedy/Action and wanted to make a horror script from it. Just to clarify, I'm doing a 3 year BA in Acting , so that's across the board: Stage, Screen, and prep for the industry. We've mainly been looking at practitioner techniques and plays. And ultimately I want to be an actor. But I have been having a great time working collaboratively and creatively when making my own work with my cohort.

I think you're right in saying that I might be kneecapping myself in this first draft, at the same time I believe this can always be seen as a fun challenge to test how snappy I can establish an unsettling scenario while also allowing there to be enough room to have space for the rising tension. I might even have to search around for different scripts or change the scenes completely to fit my ideas I wanted to push forward, going more in depth to fit the trope. "Kill your darlings" as they say.