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 […]
As we gear up for the final weekend of horror pitches (starting tomorrow!), I wanted to broach the most common question I’ve been asked during this submission process. And that question is, “Should I reveal my big twist in the logline?” In order to answer this question, a question I’ve been asked so many times […]
