"The reader not only read the entire script, I felt they understood every nuance, every bit of subtext, pretty much every message I'd poured into…
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"It’s ugly. It’s bloated. It’s a mess. It’s us." David Ortiz breaks down the screenplay for Night of the Living Dead.
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As any writer will tell you, it’s normal to go through highs and lows. The highs of getting a great idea, finishing a script, or…
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I fucking hate loglines. Okay, let me walk that back a little. Loglines are an important part of this thing we call screenwriting for a…
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Lessons from a first-time screenwriter I am 39 years old and I’ve only written two screenplays in my entire life. The first was an 85…
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"I started to think around the physical parameters of filming during a pandemic and decided we'd do a horror film over Zoom. I'd just rewatched…
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"Horror is a genre worth taking seriously because of how well it can inform and enlighten our vision of the world by reminding us of…
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Hello, my name is Garth, and I was a reader for the Killer Shorts contest. Of the 952(!) scripts submitted for this year’s competition, I…
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Weird U.S. Series (New Jersey Edition) This is the third in a series of articles highlighting chilling and thought-provoking local legends from different states around…
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This week we’re highlighting one of our very own judges for the Killer Shorts Contest, Julian Terry. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Julian is…
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