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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon which will be available 09/15/25:
2.) Plot Stability
Admittedly I did minimal research before reading this script so as not to persuade my...
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 my script review for Coming 2 America which will be available 03/15/21:
5.) Format
Coming this week or next, we have an interview 3way did with a screenwriting member of the...
An excerpt from my script review for Jolt which will be available 07/27/21:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Get this out of the way first, the description was fine, if not a bit cheesy at...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Chaos Walking which will be available 03/08/21:
What Is It Even About?
Good question, dear reader!
From Chaos Walking’s IMDB Homepage: A dystopian world where there are no women...
This weekend might be too much to handle, as not only is Endgame here, so is the epic battle in Game of Thrones where I’m sure numerous characters are about to meet...
An excerpt from my script review for TENET which will be available 12/28/20:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Remember, you are not Chris Nolan.
If you’re writing a spec script with a complex plot/twist like Inception, Interstellar, or Tenet you might want to...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Rental (2020) which will be available 09/27/20:
What Needed Work
Spelling-It-All-Out
For example, on Page 2, we are treated to this line in the description section:
Josh is...
An excerpt from Reals script review for The Curse of La Llorona (2019) which will be available 04/29/19:
What Worked
The Concept - This is a creepy idea - a ghostly figure steals children -...
Today for our review we have an indie thriller based on a bestselling novel, titled Saving Zoe. Now, all of us should be so lucky to be able to adapt a popular novel...
