The Addicts of Eastwick - OWC :: SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board

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31. The Addicts of Eastwick by Twenty-Two - Horror - Two cops go looking for a fix from a mysterious, underground dealer.
Brief - Cliche fat cop/skinny cop try to knock over a witch doctor/voodo/hoodoo priest/warlock and things go awry with the budget

Location(s)  - Dirt road, house exterior & interior
Cast -
Protagonist(s)  -
PINKERTON, 30s, fat cop
DALE, 30s, skinny cop
Antagonist(s)  -
TEENS 4X, trick-or-treaters
WARLOCK, ??, no description
Genre & Marketability - Supernatural Horror. Reads like a foul Three Stooges routine.
Comments  -  Turn off your screenwriting program's mores and continued's feature.
Filming at night's a PITA, FWIW. Cut the "CUT TO:s" Pg1 "Dale is slim, fit and has a bald spot forming on the top of his head." Holy fucking Mother of God. Pg2 "I dunno. *he shrugs* I'm hungry I guess." Don't do that asterix thing. Drop all the (beats)s. Actors and Directors are going to do their thing. Pg5 "A pig hangs upside down from a hook, sliced open down the middle." just blew the budget. Pg7 "Dale kicks one in the chest, sending the teen down the steps." OMG. Who's paying for this?! Quitting. Can't produce. Ciao. Expensive full body pig props in rooms of blood combined with action stunts involving minors are exactly how you begin to understand the difference between writing pie-in-the-sky stories and stories that are budget minded = likely to be produced.
Script format - Needs work
Final word - Too expensive to produce.

Lo/Hi Estimated Budget Range
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Adherence to Given Criteria:
Modern Witches and/or Warlocks - Nope
Horror - Meh...