PacNW degen art kid turned horror screenwriter. The Boyfriend (2026), Devil In Me (2024), Light as a Feather (2019), Hellfest (2018) Leatherface (2017).
Hey! YOU WANNA WRITE A SCARY MOVIE? Well if you follow me you know I give lots of unsolicited advice on the topic. I decided to make a pinned thread to all my fun, typo-riddled, and free advice. See below, cause this platform buries links in first posts!
@HwoodScrptReadr One thing 80s action movies taught me is, any bullet to the meat that goes all the way through, heals almost instantly. Oh, and in the Scream universe, people are made of butter and you can get stabbed in the stomach and be cool a short time later. Stop it with your "science."
@GarrisonCarr Nah-- I decided that working in any IP I loved in my youth would just fill me with dread and heartbreak. Un less they ask me to do it, in which case I am in.
@bklnfin3st@TMZ I think you're right, but telling billionaire man-babies they can't do something also has a high track record of them doing it despite the damage it caused. Example: the platform I am typing this into.
@HwoodScrptReadr As much as I like Smile and its sequel, the fact that its mythology was that the monster "makes you see stuff' gave them license to just do the scares without any logic or reason beyond that. In a way, super smart cause it lest them do whatever, but it has has a bad influence.
@Jamie_Nash Jack Gittes and Curly, opening scene of Chinatown. Lenny pitching the Squid to Mace's client in Strange Days. "Tap Tap TAp" The Wire. "I'm the one who knocks" Breaking Bad. The Carousel pitch scene from Mad Men. The DeNiro/Pacino diner scene in Heat.
@BDisgusting@latimes Ridley Scott stopped them from making a sequel to the last Alien movie that was unapologetically an Alien movie so he can make another not-Alien movie in the Alien universe. Didn't we learn from George Lucas even great creators can sour their own works?
@nessguerrero Lost Boys, The Craft, Scream, and Disturbing Behavior will give you teens, slashers, witches, monsters, angst, and a bit 80s/90s fun and get you in bed at a decent time.
@KutarkV@LizzyStarrrdust Maybe instead of being mad at feminism and women, be mad at the men that were awful enough that it pushed some to radical feminists in order to survive. As a cis male with a cis male son, I promise, if you are not part of the problem your face isn't spit in.