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writer🩸director 💀 horror/thriller

Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2013
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Happy Halloween from Finish Line! DM for scary good discount code for use this weekend only.
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I tell you, this little horror film is cleaning up in every festival it entered. Now a BEST PICTURE win 🥳🥳 We knew it was REALLYgood but having other people recognize that is a beautiful thing Congrats to @JLisaJay Writer/Director who is absolutely BRILLIANT! And to @erichcannon who brought me the project and shepherded it through production! Big congrats to Hanna and the cast and crew who did amazing work to bring this compelling and creepy film to the screen!!! So very proud of our team... #IndieFilm #horror #horrorfilms #filmmaking #moviesscene #WAfilms #TheCuckooClock
Over the weekend THE CUCKOO CLOCK won BEST feature at the Bleedingham Film Festival and tomorrow you can see it and @JLisaJay in Palm Springs!
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she’s so tired of generative ai
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Really looking forward to being there in Palm Springs!
Over the weekend THE CUCKOO CLOCK won BEST feature at the Bleedingham Film Festival and tomorrow you can see it and @JLisaJay in Palm Springs!
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Every writer has heard of the note "show, don't tell". There is, of course, room and purpose for both in storytelling. Telling handles pace. If every single detail in a piece were shown rather than told, the writing would collapse under its own weight, be exhausting to read with no sense of which moments actually mattered. Everything would have received the same dramatic, scene-level treatment. Showing handles weight. The moments that are supposed to matter, the emotional turn, the decision, the loss, those are where showing earns its keep. Those are the moments where you want the reader doing the work of arriving at the feeling themselves, rather than simply being informed of it. Latecomer Submissions open.
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I’ll be in Orange, CA tomorrow morning for a showing of my film THE CUCKOO CLOCK at 10:40. Ive heard it’s a fun festival, come join me. 💜
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Write to free yourself Write to express yourself Write to explore yourself Write to challenge yourself Write to challenge the oppressive systems Write to grieve Write to document Write to leave your mark Write because you can Write because it is your right Write because it is art Just write.
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One of my favorite reads in the past year. I dont know why this isnt a movie yet, it’s so perfect.
First page of my newest script RECLUSE 🕸️🕷️ Haven’t shared anything of mine on here in a long time. Trying to be more open with stuff on here in the hopes of rekindling that community we all seem to have lost over the past few years. 🎬
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Palm Springs is ready for THE CUCKOO CLOCK screening with @JLisaJay Q+A to follow with @ema_sasic !! Oct 27th!!
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You know what’s scary? Bad wigs.
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When did we start saying “spooky season”? Can we stop?
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Tbh i think he’s messing with people. But if not, i wonder if what he’s thinking is that both Macready & Childs are infected. As they talk, they realize this. “Are u the only one who made it?” & “Did u kill it?” go unanswered. Then veiled discussion about the fire burning (cont.)
John Carpenter says nobody has figured out the ending of The Thing correctly yet "Every idea that people have is not the right one, I know the right one... no one has guessed it" nitter.cf/AcademyMuseum/status/2…
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down, the cold setting in. “How will we make it?” “Why dont we just wait here for a little while, see what happens.” Which is a conversation the aliens could’ve had when they were frozen before - going into hibernation- bookending this. Not my favorite end idea, but it works.
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So happy to once again be part of THE DEAD LIST with a horror script Im super excited about - SAFE - cowritten with Rich Orstad. Thanks, Ash, for including us! 🤩
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if i had a band id name it Heat Signature
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Invented by your ex
Today is Forgive an Ex Day.
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I wish Kitchen Nightmares was a horror movie with Gordon Ramsay. Scare me daddy
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H O T 🔥 N E W 🔥 S P E C S
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Really fun short - must’ve been an awesome retreat. Congrats to @kimhornsby and everyone!
Absolutely chuffed to drop this link finally! It’s our short film MURDER AT THE WRITERS RETREAT youtu.be/ToRv3Gew1k4 I run a short film bootcamp on my pnw island in late Spring and this fun little film was the result of the 2025 cast and crew 11 writers, one script, 4 days, IMDb credits, set experience, gorgeous estate, writers room experience, local crew, loads of laughs, inclusions in film festivals DM me for info on 2027 camp! @rbripley @DutchessAbroad @DebraPralle #filmmaking
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