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...

Resident Evil (2026) A Deconstructed Video Game Movie Adaptation

I would have liked to review this movie on the start of Horror Month, but Sony had other plans, I guess. You could say I’m a longtime Resident Evil game fan, going all...

It Waits – Description that kills…your reader’s interest.

An excerpt from my script review for It Waits which will be available 09/22/26: 4.) Dialogue and Description The main thing we’re going to cover here is reviewing the amateur tendencies to include what...

28 Years Later – Not as bad as everyone says?

An excerpt from my script review for 28 Years Later which will be available 09/02/26: 2.) Plot Stability Truth be told I probably should have seen or read the second installment before the third. By...
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Satanic Panic – When all else fails, go for dark visuals.

An excerpt from my script review for Satanic Panic which will be available 09/09/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description We’ll skip dialogue because it didn’t really do much either good or bad. It served its...

Saw X- Jigsaw Gets his Groove Back?

I want to play a game. Those iconic words haven’t been uttered in a good Saw movie in a long time. At least, according to the teenager who was ripping my ticket at the theater...

The Postcard Killings – Entertain your audience for all, not just half, of your story.

An excerpt from my script review for The Postcard Killings which will be available 06/15/20: 2.) Plot Stability For the first fifty pages or so I enjoyed the script. I was engaged. I was interested....

The Lodge – When a “Fooled You” Twist Doesn’t Work

An excerpt from my script review for The Lodge which will be available 02/10/2020: 2.) Plot Stability “Scary as Hell. The next great horror film is here.” Meh. If the finished film follows the script, I’d...

A 3way Take: The Many Saints of Newark

An excerpt from 3way's script review for The Many Saints of Newark which will be available 07/19/22: Let’s take a gander… Logline:Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras...

Velvet Buzzsaw – Are we all Morfs?

An excerpt from my script review for Velvet Buzzsaw which will be available 02/11/19: 3.) Quality of Characters First off, poor fucking Coco. I agree with the Cap’n one hundred percent on that and the fact that the...

What Could Have Been: Ghostbusters 3 – Hellbent

An excerpt from my script review for the unproduced Ghostbusters III - Hellbent which will be available 02/13/23: 2.) Plot Stability Following along with that Nick Cave Gladiator 2 thought from above, it was like a...

Creed II – Don’t Undo the Good in YOUR Script

An excerpt from my script review for Creed II which will be available 07/01/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description Okay, so I really hope the whole Peter Petrelli subplot wasn't in Creed II, and here's why. https://youtu.be/mk82j1jQw_8 That...

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