Today, Thursday, is the last day to send in your logline for the Halloween Logline Showdown. If you have a great horror script, get that logline in! I’m determined to find a great horror screenplay before this Halloween month is over. What: Halloween Logline Showdown Send me: Logline for either your Horror or Thriller script […]

Has today’s writer conquered one of Hollywood’s screenwriting chupacabras? Written “the next Goonies?” Genre: Ghost/Adventure Premise: A Wisconsin high school girl teams up with her friends to look for a ghost ship she believes is connected to her mother’s disappearance. About: This script finished with 6 votes on last year’s Black List. So far the […]

Genre: Action/Thriller Premise: A man wakes up in a hospital, no memory of who he is, with a bullet lodged in his head. Over  the next 48 hours, he learns of his ties to a nefarious pharmaceutical company and the billionaire owner who wants him dead. About: This is an older spec script that sold […]

You have to give it to Hollywood. The town does have a sense of humor. I mean why else would you plop a Taylor Swift concert movie right in the middle of Horror Season? The tall gangly crooner does possess a certain “Ichabod Crane” quality, which may have been the secret sauce to getting her […]

Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror/Drama Premise: Amid a rash of cattle mutilations in the ‘80s, a rural veterinarian holds an alien captive with the desperate hope that its miraculous healing biology can save his terminally ill wife. About: This is the runner-up in the First Page Showdown. If you’re wondering why we’re reviewing the runner-up and not the […]