Congrats Michael. This was creepy. I liked it. I never read the script but love the film.

Good job.

Thanks Dena!

Don't really visit SS much anymore, been busy with a horror feature that's in development called "They Never Left" (with leads and director attached - in talks with a few EP's and line producers as we speak). And before that, my schedule was busy producing a proof-of-concept/short version of the film. Making the short was more of a pain in the ass than getting the feature off the ground (so far), but I won't be exec. producing the feature (thankfully).

Plus, especially after I had a script stolen from this website in the past year, I don't post work publicly anymore. Regardless of having it copyrighted, it's still too much of a hassle.

As for "Cackle", it's simply a micro short in the style of most micro horror shorts all over Youtube. Just like the short version of "Lights Out" or "Cop Cam" or "Moonlight Man". It's just a gimmicky little micro horror short with no purpose other than to provide scares and atmosphere... although this was more humorous than creepy. It was simplified to get it under 5 minutes, no dialogue, even less of a narrative story. But I like the way it turned out, Jeff has really improved as a filmmaker. Working with him again on the next short.

-- Michael

Quoted from spesh2k Thanks Dena! Don't really visit SS much anymore, been busy with a horror feature that's in development called "They Never Left" (with leads and director attached - in talks with a few EP's and line producers as we speak). And before that, my schedule was busy producing a proof-of-concept/short version of the film. Making the short was more of a pain in the ass than getting the feature off the ground (so far), but I won't be exec. producing the feature (thankfully). Plus, especially after I had a script stolen from this website in the past year, I don't post work publicly anymore. Regardless of having it copyrighted, it's still too much of a hassle. As for "Cackle", it's simply a micro short in the style of most micro horror shorts all over Youtube. Just like the short version of "Lights Out" or "Cop Cam" or "Moonlight Man". It's just a gimmicky little micro horror short with no purpose other than to provide scares and atmosphere... although this was more humorous than creepy. It was simplified to get it under 5 minutes, no dialogue, even less of a narrative story. But I like the way it turned out, Jeff has really improved as a filmmaker. Working with him again on the next short. -- Michael

Michael,

Sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience on the site. Visit this link and I can remove your work from the site.

Thanks,

Don

I want to keep it up as proof just in case things end up in a courtroom. Not sure if you're aware, but I've had quite an experience dealing with this Frankie Hopkins guy who has a reputation of stealing work and passing it off as his own (his real name is Patrick Rasmussen). The script in question was "Morphine", which was optioned/sold in 2013, so it's pretty much in the production company's hands if and when they decide to take action. Which would only be if there's proof of funding for the film in question and/or the film is produced. He ended up going to jail for a few months, but now he's back out and is up to his usual tricks. His Instagram and Twitter pages both say, "Writer/Director of Morphine, coming soon". We'll see where this goes, but I got legal advice from a lawyer friend of mine and was also advised by the production company to keep the script and all of it's comments up for the time being as it documents when I posted the script and exhibits proof (outside of the obvious copyright) that this, in fact, was my own work.

Hi Michael,

Congrats on Cackle, looks good!

Sorry to hear you are still having issues with that idiot over Morphine - nightmare!

Yeah, still going through it with that guy. Since April. I'm confident it will work itself out. Eventually.

Quoted from spesh2k Yeah, still going through it with that guy. Since April. I'm confident it will work itself out. Eventually.

Sorry about your troubles with Morphine.  You're right, it'll all work out.  I liked the short, but won't let my wife watch it because she won't sleep at all tonight!  Good luck with the feature.