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WRITING / SCREENPLAYS
Screenplays
Horror, mystery, dark comedy, speculative fiction, and original genre work.
For scripts, pitch materials, or rights inquiries, contact Michael.
18 titles · Books ↗
SCREENPLAYS
FEATURE FILMS
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Blood Sisters
After her adoptive parents die, a grieving Ohio woman flies to Los Angeles to meet the twin she never knew, stakes her in self-defense, and is welcomed home by a family of vampires who think she’s her sister.
A vampire story about identity, grief, and family.
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Candy
In 1960 Arizona, a genderfluid rockabilly courier for a stolen-car ring goes on a revenge spree after a car bomb meant for them kills two little boys — never suspecting that the lover handing them targets is an FBI stenographer using their grief to wipe out the gang.
Tagline: Green means go. Red means stop.
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Dance All Night, Die All Night
At a conservative Christian college in 1986, a sheltered freshman discovers that the summer’s biggest pop song is conditioning listeners into perfect obedience, and when its charismatic singer prepares a nationwide broadcast, her lifelong inability to dance may be the one thing that can resist it.
An analog-era horror story about pop music, conformity, and resistance.
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May Their Memory Be a Blessing
During shiva for the wife he believes died in a car crash, a compulsive fixer tries to reconstruct their final night as his grieving family seems to look straight through him and impossible details undermine his understanding of what happened.
A contained supernatural grief story set largely in one house during shiva.
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Tell Them
When a couple’s new home appears haunted by a drowned child, they hire a skeptical paranormal investigator and uncover an elaborate fraud. But solving the haunting does not explain everything happening in the house.
A haunted-house mystery in which a rational explanation proves incomplete.
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The Bat
When a caustic true-crime author moves into a jailed serial killer’s desert house to write the definitive book, a copycat murder traps her among suspects, cops, and costumed fans, and she must solve it by reading people’s words.
A contemporary adaptation of the public-domain stage play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.
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The Unnaturals
Interconnected lives collide in a surveillance state built on compulsory confession and punishment.
A dystopian science-fiction story involving confession, memory surveillance, and collective guilt.
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Three Will Leave Alive
On the overnight drive to a high-stakes gig, a rising all-women rock band tunes into a long-dead DJ broadcasting tomorrow’s disasters—including a report that only three of them will leave the stage alive. To change the future, the four friends must unravel the secret of a deadly fire that consumed the same venue thirty years earlier.
Tagline: Four take the stage. Three will leave alive.
Four bandmates hear a radio broadcast predicting tomorrow’s tragedy.
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The Mohel
When a beloved, opinionated old mohel is framed for a string of nighttime ritual attacks on grown men, his doubting rabbi son must see through a medieval blood libel — and the charming true-crime podcaster spreading it — before the attacker reaches a newborn on the night before his bris.
Tagline: The oldest lie has a new platform.
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Ghost Cars
A homicide detective facing a disciplinary hearing investigates the roadside death of an impound-yard clerk and follows a trail of impossible mileage, missing records, and police-held vehicles that seem to move when no one is watching.
An evidentiary noir told through recorded interviews, dashcams, databases, and other records.
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The Mice Will Play
Over one increasingly disastrous night in 1994 Los Angeles, a burned-out contract worker and his maddeningly capable new partner race through five bizarre assignments while armed strangers hunt them for reasons neither understands.
A 1994 Los Angeles crime comedy about misdirection, strange jobs, and reluctant partnership.
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The Wedding Whirl
A camera-hungry bride who hasn't danced since a junior-high humiliation secretly joins a reality show that will pay for her wedding — if she can learn a surprise dance, hide it from her family, and outlast the childhood nemesis who blackmails her way into the bridal party.
Tagline: Something old. Something new. Something on national television.
Adapted from the book by Rachel Eddey.
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The Caul
In an isolated Italian village, a mother learns that everyone trying to save her daughter has their own reason to want the girl.
Tagline: The veil is not free.
SCREENPLAYS
TELEVISION
TV Pilot
Chimera
In 1987, twins survive the same accident in two different worlds. In one, Lucy died. In the other, Cary did. When lucid dreaming lets each of them reach the other, every attempt to bring the other home threatens to destroy the world that twin already lives in.
Tagline: Two worlds. One accident. Each twin is the other’s ghost.
Season one comprises seven completed episodes, according to the existing public screenplay listing.
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The Once and Future Smash
Two aging actors who each played the same forgotten slasher villain are court-ordered to tour the horror-convention circuit together, sharing one table, one sidekick and one shot at the role, while a court-appointed videographer records every humiliation.
Tagline: One monster. Two men. One table.
Season One: six episodes, all written.
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Blackthorne House
A guilt-ridden heiress enters a livestream horror competition under a false identity to discover what happened to her missing sister, only to find the show has been waiting for her and the house may be more dangerous than anything its producers staged.
SCREENPLAYS
SHORT FILMS
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Bristle
After 211 days without brushing his teeth, a terrified man must pick up the toothbrush again when something black takes root beneath his gums, even though every stroke opens an impossible slit in the bathroom wall.
Also available as an approximately 20-minute radio-play prose adaptation.