Horror Month 2026 – Week 3

(And don’t forget to check out Week 2 first!) Remember you can follow along with him in real time via X: https://x.com/CPeachfuzz And new this year, he does YouTube Shorts reviews for some of...

Horror Month 2026 – Week 2

(And don't forget to check out Week 1 first!) Remember you can follow along with him in real time via X: https://x.com/CPeachfuzz And new this year, he does YouTube Shorts reviews for some of...

Abigail – If you TELL us she’s a vampire going in, then SHOW us!

An excerpt from my script review for Abigail (2024) which will be available 10/19/26: 2.) Plot Stability Okay, first and foremost I’m just going to come right out and say it… This script takes way...

Horror Month 2026 – Week 1

It's the Capn's favorite time of year!!! Don't forget you can follow along with him in real time via X: https://x.com/CPeachfuzz And new this year, he does YouTube Shorts reviews for some of his...

Motor City: No Dialogue – good storytelling or cheap gimmick?

An excerpt from my script review for Motor City which will be available 10/04/26: 4.) Dialogue and Description You read it in the title of this review… Is the “no dialogue” a worthy storytelling method...

Resident Evil – A Nod to the Fans?

An excerpt from my script review for Resident Evil (2026) which will be available 09/29/26: 2.) Plot Stability After reading the initial portions of the Capn’s review, I paused to see if the script...
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Deadpool – A new Captain Favorite?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIM1HydF9UA I was a pretty big X-Men fan during the 90’s. I still have binders filled with cards somewhere. I even collected the Hi-C box juice tie-in. They had cards on the back...

10 Cloverfield Lane – Get in the Box!

An excerpt from my script review for 10 Cloverfield Lane which will be available 03/14/16: ***SPOILERS*** 2.) Plot Stability Going to come right out and say it, I loved this script! (What’s more, I wrote a...

The Neon Demon – How much of it was Refn?

Hi all. Happy Day of Independence! (Day late on the blog, our apologies.) To all our French readers out there, thank you. And to our English ones…things worked out for the best, right? The Neon...

IT – Build Tension, and then Deliver

An excerpt from my script review for IT (2017) which will be available 09/11/17: 4.) Dialogue and Description With horror, it’s important to build in TENSION. More importantly, to do so while delivering the opposite...

Behind the Cellar Wall

Hi all. Today we're taking a look at Behind the Cellar Wall by Lana Newlin. We follow the story of Maggie, who's a tough young woman, as she loses her parents, is left a...

Write to Reals – Dead Girl 2006: Reals’ First Produced Female Script Review!

An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Dead Girl (2006) which will be available 07/26/18: Initial Thoughts First, I want to say that it is great to read the work of a female...

HORROR MONTH WEEKEND WRAP UP – Week 1!

Now if you aren’t fully aware of what exactly this month entails for me, it’s a month where I watch nothing but horror movies every night and only horror. It also goes...

The Jungle Cruise – Checking out an earlier draft…

An excerpt from my unproduced script review for The Jungle Cruise which will be available 08/09/21: 4.) Dialogue and Description Page 84: MACGREGOR ...Whatever you and that monster are planning, you won’t catch Captain Wolfe. He’s a master mariner....

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