Taking a look at the 5 best concepts in The Blood & Ink Showdown (Today’s article references pitching for the Blood & Ink Showdown. If you want to learn more about the showdown, here’s the original post). Now that the fun of pitching horror concepts is behind us, the hard work begins. Many of you […]
Genre: Thriller Premise: When a psychiatrist and his sickly wife travel to their country cabin for a quiet Thanksgiving weekend, they will have to deal with an unexpected visit from one of his patients, who claims his dead twin brother is after him for revenge. About: This script finished with 11 votes on last year’s […]
Pitched as “Home Alone on acid.” Genre: Magical Realism Premise: An eleven-year-old boy left alone while his parents vacation stumbles upon a surreal late-night TV broadcast of lizard musicians, leading him into a strange adventure through Chicago’s hidden corners where he runs into a bizarre guy known as The Chicken Man. About: Recently, Benny Safdie […]
ANNOUNCEMENT – I HAVE DECIDED THAT ALL MAYBES IN TODAY’S POST ARE OFFICIALLY ***IN*** THE BLOOD & INK SHOWDOWN. CONGRATS! (The following article is a follow-up to the Blood & Ink Contest. If you would like to learn more about the contest, you can go here) First of all, I have to point out that […]
ALL PITCHING IS NOW CLOSED! I have a direct line to, arguably, the biggest person in horror in all of Hollywood. This person has been in the trades relentlessly lately. And he trusts my taste implicitly. If I send him a script that I say I love, he’ll start reading it within 10 minutes. This […]
