FrankenScript :: Lee Gabel's Screenwriting Journal/Blog

Very slow to get started, mainly because the setup that takes place in 1957 is completely irrelevant. It adds nothing to story except for removing some of the mystery. The shower scene is unnecessary as well. It all just wastes time instead of getting to the meat of the story. Except for the introduction of [...]

Completed: Vermin (Feature, Horror) David’s Summer (Feature, Drama)   In Development: Untitled Gang Film (Feature, Drama) Untitled Vacation Comedy (Feature, Comedy)  

What does Jason Vorhees do while waiting for people to kill? Tend to his marijuana crop, of course. And if someone gets too close, especially young people who drink and have sex in the forest, it’s off with your head. And there’s no shortage of obnoxious young people. Faster Jason, kill, kill. The characters are [...]

It’s an interesting premise, but the thing that stopped me is you’re not lying if you choose not to say what you’re thinking. Only when you say something that is different to what you are thinking can that be considered lying, and I think that’s the fatal flaw of the film. A better title would [...]

I have to admit, this film kept my interest, even though it was panned by many. It makes sense and everything happens for a reason. I think it could have been an even better film without the “father who lost everything” storyline. Sure we feel sympathetic at the beginning, but when more than the perpetrators [...]

Get ready, because this film is a great example of excess and not knowing when to stop. More is not always better. Yes, the visuals are astoundingly real, but the antics the characters go through when the “shit hits the fan” is so ludicrous it ends up being funny instead of serious. Last I checked, [...]