An excerpt from my script review for A Minecraft Movie which will be available 02/24/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Minecraft.
My kids played it. You or your kids probably played it.
I tried playing it...
God, what is that smell? Did you shit yourself? Something is in the air. Oh wait, I know what it is. It’s love. Love is in the air again and it smells...
An excerpt from my script review for Superman (2025) which will be available 02/09/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The thing I liked about this, and Matt Reeves The Batman, is that we’re moving away from including...
The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
We break scripts down the Monday after its opening weekend. Read detailed reviews and see what current writers selling scripts are doing right, and sometimes wrong.
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Crush the Skull which will be available 03/20/19:
What Worked
A super dark, grimy atmosphere - starting with a little girl locked in a room and chained...
Hey Everyone!
Back again with my reviews of the final two Amazon Studios / Blumhouse films for Horror Month!
Nocturne (2020)
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104485..._=nv_sr_srsg_0
Logline: An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) aka Cadaver which will be available 02/27/19:
What Worked
-- Page 2 - HENRY LEWIS, Lead Pathologist. He’s heavy set and set...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Hereditary which will be available 06/10/18:
What Needs Work
6. Pg. 21 - The support group speech to give exposition is kind of lazy. Think of more...
This piece comes to us from none other than Ireland. Now, I haven’t seen many Irish horror films (that I can think of) but the plot sounded interesting and it got some...
An excerpt from Reals' unproduced script review for Batman: Year One by Frank Miller which will be available 04/03/18:
What Worked
Pg. 1 - White space. That’s always great to see and a good...
An excerpt from my script review for First Man which will be available 10/15/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
There’s two things you should never do to your reader.
A.) Bore them.
B.) Insult them.
Now, I’ll chalk...
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, back with another horror film review for you!
This time, we have a piece called Mercy Black, which I was planning to rent on Amazon, until it came...
