Fantastic way to spend a Tuesday night. Grindhouse and visural through and through. A true love letter to the slashers of old. @shudder.com @ifcfilms.bsky.social
#Dolly #independentfilm #horror #indiehorror
Putting Godzilla (1998) in my Letterboxd Mount Rushmore to feel alive.
Golly, I should really be working on my rewrite.
#filmsky #screenwriting
So I'm watching Jaws this morn' (obviously). My wife walks in and takes a seat. Awesome, she's hot.
Not 3 seconds pass before:
"Every time you watch this, you remind me more of the nerdy scientist guy."
Apparently, I'm straying into Mat Hooper territory as I age. Hell yeah?
#filmsky #jaws50 #film
Absolutely LOVED Damien Mc Carthy's Caveat. I don't know how it's escaped me this long, but im glad that it found me.
Between this one and Oddity, Damien is now officially a certified DUDE in my book.
Go check it out on @shudder.com as swiftly as you're able
#horror #horrorsky #filmsky
I love Jaws 3, and I will never pretend that I don't.
Is it good? No.
Is it supremely entertaining?
Hell freaking yeah.
#filmsky #Jaws #3D
Ah yes, my favorite combo
✍️🥲
Time for Draft 6 of Loved by a Dead Girl. Drafts 1-5 found the heart of the story and dynamics between characters. However, I had a dream with the cast of characters aged up and able to deal with the themes in a more interesting way. I hope that this cracks the story!
#screenwriting #scriptsky
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One
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Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.
I hate when I read one of my scripts, and I think it's great. Now I have to share it with others who might tell that it's not great?? And if they do like it, I have to learn how to take a compliment?!?
Time to send it out and face this nightmare.
#scriptsky #screenwriting #filmsky #screenplay
Pounding shots of espresso and writing with Cloverfield playing in the background. My wife is out of town, so I had popcorn and a single peach for dinner.
The stars have aligned for one of the weirdest #screenwriting benders of my life.
#screenwriter #scriptsky #filmsky
Friendly reminder to always prioritize story over page count.
Just caught myself worrying that an important three page scene in ACT 3 needed to be cut to save pages.
No amount of time saved could lessen the importance of the scene.
I'll knock it off now.
#scriptsky #screenwriting #filmsky
For a writer, I can't spell to save my life... story over spelling? Right?
RIGHT.
#scriptsky #screenwriting
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#scriptsky
Saw a pet smart scrolling by in Roku City.
I do not like this.
Thank you for the chuckle on that one 😂
My first #firstpagefriday
GHOULS NIGHT OUT
A struggling librarian and her friends fight for survival as four groups of monsters slaughter their town in an “Olympics from Hell” style game to collect souls for the Devil.
#horror #writers #scriptsky #screenwriting #halloween #specscript
I've spent the entire year on my "core three" samples for producers/reps. That's all fine and dandy because there's some real good stuff in there.
I am craving a new project, REAL BAD.
Would it be bad if I spent May working on a new feature? Someone talk me out of it.
#scriptsky #screenwriting
That's incredible 😭
A writers mind is such a fascinating web to untangle. My most extreme was 145 pages down to around 95... so many darlings slayed 🥲
Turns out that I'm a yapper when it comes to this whole writing thing.
I'm doing a quick tightening pass at a draft I finished last week... I've already cut 5 pages worth of stuff, and I just finished with the first act.
This is going to be a rough one, man.
#scriptsky #screenwriting #rewriting
Just booked my screenings for Tribeca in a few weeks! It's my first bigger film festival and I am AMPED, man.
#filmsky
Working on my Horror-Comedy Ghouls Night Out.
Paraphrasing here, but the last few reader's notes said that I should punch up the horror because "I'm so funny that people forget to be scared."
OK it wasn't that exactly but a whole week focusing on making monsters scarier? Hell yeah.
#scriptsky
There's one more scene to wrap things up on the newest draft of the project I've been working on for the last 4 weeks.
I just realized that Karma Police by Radiohead has accidentally become my tonal guiding light and fueled the entire second and third acts.
Whoops.
#scriptsky #screenwriting
It's one of the best ways to spend 2 hours that I can think of!
Godzilla Minus One is the greatest movie of the 21st century, and I'm tired of pretending that it's not.
#filmsky #scriptsky
I am a bad John Carpenter fan because I just watched Assault on Precinct 13 for the first time.
That is the definition of an 8/10 movie and was so beautifully eerie. It did feel like a companion piece to Night of the Living Dead in the best ways.
If you're 49 years behind like me, go watch it NOW
The best facilitator and mentor there ever was.
Lawrence Kasdan: “Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.” #writing #scriptsky
Found myself reworking my Film School capstone feature script last night. I last touched it in 2023, but it called to me.
I'm supposed to be onto my slasher, who-done-it, but my writer lizard brain has chosen this for. Guess I'm working on my "Future Oscar Winner" indie.
#scriptsky #screenwriting
