Genre: TV Pilot – Horror/Zombie Premise: An expansion of one of the most popular shows on television, The Walking Dead. Except in this piece, we begin our journey in Los Angeles, before the zombie virus has broken out. About: Spin-off shows are nothing new. Hollywood’s been doing them forever. Heck, I think Steve Urkel once […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A mother and her two young daughters enjoy a vacation at their remote lake house until they realize they’re being watched. About: This script finished number 5 on last year’s Blood List, the list of the best horror specs of the year. It was written by up-and-coming scribe, Mike Scannell, a UTA […]

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I’ve talked about this scene on the site before, but no matter how many times I write about it, I can’t get it out of my mind. To me, it represents everything that was wrong with the two Matrix sequels and every bad writing choice that could have possibly been made in a single scene. […]

Psycho meets Alice in Wonderland meets American Psycho. Could there be a stranger more appealing movie combination?? Genre: Murder-Mystery Premise: Set in 1953, when a young woman is murdered in a small town, everyone suspects the mysterious gardener who lives with his sick mother. About: We’ve been tackling so many adult scripts lately, it was […]