Genre: Horror/Thriller Premise: In 1984, a group of teenage friends suspect that their neighbor is a serial killer and spend the summer trying to prove it. About: Summer of ’84 made last year’s Blood List and is currently in post-production. The writers are newbies. But the script is being directed by the trio behind the […]

Genre: Horror Premise: A group of geologists in the Amazon stumble upon a fossil of a mysterious hand, and when they go looking for the rest of the body, get more than they bargained for. About: The birth of an idea! Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told producer William Alland about a myth he’d heard of […]

What are you going to do this weekend? You could spend 15 hard-earned bucks on Geostorm or The Snowman, the investment equivalent of buying snow tires in Los Angeles, or you could read through this weekend’s Amateur Horror Offerings and vote for your favorite! In my opinion, one of these entries stands out from the […]

IT’S MORE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS THAN THE PLOT I used to think plot was the only thing that mattered. If you could follow Blake Snyder’s famous beat sheet and hit every one one of his predetermined page-targets, you’d create a mathematically perfect screenplay. Eventually I realized that where the real power lies is in creating […]

Okay Sci-Fi heads. You got a wild one today. Midnight Special meets Children of Men. Who’s in??? Genre: Sci-Fi Premise: A 16 year-old boy with special powers accidentally kills his father, forcing he and his mother to go on the run to escape authorities. About: This script finished fairly high on the 2015 Black List. […]