The Screenwriting Journal

What I Learned Reading Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT Screenplay

It’s such a playful screenplay and the movie mix of more than just one or two genres. And even it exceeds all of them.

What I Learned Reading IT (2017) Screenplay

There is more than one screenplay around for Andy Muschietti’s IT (2017). There are…

How SHARP OBJECTS Pilot Script Tackles Detective Genre Conventions

Sharp Objects is one of the best TV series I’ve watched recently. It’s bleak, dark, tense and I loved it! It has got so many genre elements to it. But in this article, I want to talk about how the pilot script uses…

What I Learned Reading THE THING Screenplay

John Carpenter said it’s the best screenplay he’d ever read for Bill Lanchester’s version of “The Thing”. And he made “ a game-changer that cannot be matched, a Holy Grail” with it.

Playing with Expectations and Comedy, Pineapple Express Screenplay

What I Learned Reading KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Screenplay

In Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon accidentally killed a sacred deer that belonged to Artemis, and she requires blood in return.

What I Learned Reading The Haunting of Hill House Script

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Scene-by-Scene Breakdown

SEQ. 0100 — THE ALTERNATE SPIDER-MAN “TAS”

SUSPIRIA (Dir. Dario Argento, 1977)

“The ending of Suspiria isn’t bad, but it’s not as scary as the…