Halloween Double Feature 2025 (Part 2): Cherry Falls – Editing From Hell?

While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...

Halloween Double Feature 2025 (Part 1): Cherry Falls – The greatest slasher you’ve never heard of?

Hi all. Happy Halloween!!! It’s the last day of the month that our beloved Cap’n looks forward to all year long…which also means it’s time for another Halloween Double Feature!!! 1.) Marketability of the Idea The...

Happy Death Day – Should YOU give up on screenwriting?

An excerpt from my script review for Happy Death Day which will be available 10/27/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Groundhog Day, but it’s horror. The main character is brutally murdered each day and every...

Horror Month 2025: Week 3

Feel free to check out Week 2 and make sure to follow along on Twitter: http://x.com/CPeachfuzz The Strangers: Chapter 2 â€“ I did not enjoy the first half, I’m referring to these as first half and second...

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...
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Free Fire – Making the Best of a Contained Situation

An excerpt from my script review for Free Fire which will be available 05/22/17: 2.) Plot Stability As the title to this review implies, the plot ran out of places to go. There’s only so...

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...

War and Pain

Hi all. Welcome to another Saturday with your ol' pal Hank. Today we're headed down to HOTlanta and hitting some of the shadier neighborhoods around the city. War and Pain by D.K. Logline: Huck wants to...

Lazarus Effect – Wait we can learn something?!

An excerpt from my script review for Lazarus Effect which will be available 03/09/15: 3.) Quality of Characters Plot. Dialogue. Format. Things to learn from each, but let's check out characters. The...

Legend of Tarzan – Disney’s Jungle Cruise with Abs!

An excerpt from my script review for The Legend of Tarzan which will be available 07/11/16: 2.) Plot Stability Everyone should have caught the HUGE red flag when interviews with Alexander Skarsgård were focused...

A Few Good Men – Utilizing Smart Characters

An excerpt from my script review for A Few Good Men which will be available 02/05/18: 3.) Quality of Characters Establish (and then utilize) smart characters. Kaffee. Young and inexperienced doesn’t equal stupid, a fact that...

Shadow in the Cloud – New Year, New…inspiration for your next horror thriller?

An excerpt from my script review for Shadow in the Cloud which will be available 01/04/21: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Contained horror thriller. We’re starting this year’s first review off with marketable advice. A few...

Hail, Caesar! – Wandering Plot Issues

The Captain weighs in on the newest Coen Bros. picture. Will his thoughts mirror my own issues with the script? https://youtu.be/kMqeoW3XRa0 I never got around to seeing this when it came out in...

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