Scriptshadow turns to its own for today’s screenplay review, the runner-up in the November Logline Showdown! The Equalizer meets Nosferatu. Genre: Horror/Action Logline: An elderly shop owner in San Francisco’s Chinatown sacrifices himself to become a goeng-si–a Chinese hopping vampire–so that he can get revenge against the gangsters terrorizing his neighborhood. About: Today’s script finished SECOND in […]

The most clever horror premise I’ve read all year. It Follows meets The Ring! Genre: Horror Premise: A young woman finds out, after breaking up with her boyfriend, that everyone who breaks up with him dies exactly three days later. About: The short story sales continue! In addition to “It’s Over,” we also have the […]

How did one of my most anticipated films of the year hold up to all that expectation?? Genre: War/Drama/Period Premise: A wealthy German family goes about their daily lives living several feet away from the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. About: This film won the esteemed Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival. […]

The Black List is rigged. It’s time for Scriptshadow to un-rig it Which Top 10 script is this? As we all know, by this point, the Black List is rigged. This is not the creator, Franklin Leonard’s, fault. It’s just that the list has been around long enough that managers and agents have figured out […]

Genre: Thriller Premise: A man wakes up on his wedding day with a text that simply says, “Run,” and what follows is 8 straight hours of people trying to kill him. About: Another HUGE short story sale. This one sold to Universal. Sam Hargrave (Extraction) will be directing. This is writer Aaron Jayh’s second sale […]