Horror Month 2025: Week 2

Feel free to check out Week 1 and make sure to follow along on Twitter: http://x.com/CPeachfuzz Kill Me Again â€“ I initially really loved the plot to this movie, serial killer trapped in a time...

Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...

What Could Have Been: Vanderbilt’s The Long Walk Adaptation

An excerpt from my script review for The Long Walk (unproduced by James Vanderbilt) which will be available 10/06/25: 2.) Plot Stability Just a reminder, this is for Vanderbilt’s unproduced version and not the...

Horror Month 2025!

It’s that time again, the month of all things spooky, creepy and stinky. Because like every year, I know a majority of the films on this list are going to be real...

Him (2025) – WTF?!…but in a GOOD way!

An excerpt from my script review for Him (aka The Goat) which will be available 09/29/25: 2.) Plot Stability I thoroughly enjoyed this script. Benny is entering Connor’s world, and he feels like he’s by himself, but...

The Sting – Does it still hold up? (…and RIP Robert Redford)

An excerpt from my script review for The Sting (1973) which will be available 09/23/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea So…this was started yesterday, but mom is visiting from Florida all week. Over the weekend we...
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Back with Hank on another Amazon Studios request. This time we're headed deep into Sawtooth Canyon to find ourselves a Bigfoot. Justin Buettner's Sawtooth does a good job in some places of...

Anatomy of a Contained Thriller

After my Buried review I wanted to take a look at what goes into creating suspense in genres similar to the contained thriller. THEN I remember Roy's forum post on "How...

Mythical

Hi all. Today we're taking a look at that fiend of the forum, CE Martin. If I remember correctly, CE comes over to us from novels, and by what's he's written here...

Sundance 2021 (Part 1) – Knocking, Censor and BONUS Film Reviews

Hello All! You are in for a treat, as this year the Sundance Film Festival was presented virtually for people all around the world to enjoy, and I managed to get tickets to...

The Wraith – Part 2

3waystopsign takes a look at the script for this 1986 revenge classic! (And don't miss Part 1: The Wraith movie Review here.) I did not read CP's review prior to posting this. I will...

The Wraith – Part 1

The Captain takes a look at one of his childhood favorites from the 80s...The Wraith! (Part 2 is the a follow-up from our newest mod, 3waystopsign, reviewing the script!) Enjoy. Easter time is here and...

10 Deadly Sins of Screenwriting

Hi all. Today's article is a discussion Roy started in our forum, which several of you have added to. We wanted to take a bit of time to expand on his initial seven (and...

Barbie – Do’s and Don’ts in Dialogue and Description

An excerpt from my script review for Barbie which will be available 01/01/24: 4.) Dialogue and Description The dialogue was fine, especially because of things like the above point. For instance on page 8 where...

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