THE PREMISES OF OTTO GAST
An impressively wrought exercise in surreal delirium that has yet to receive its proper due
NIGHT SKIES
His name may not appear anywhere on it, but make no mistake: Mr. Steven Spielberg was the guiding force behind this late 1970s screenplay
ANAÏS NIN AT THE GRAND GUIGNOL
Yet another example of mislabeled literary horror
PRANKS
This justifiably forgotten Halloween themed relic is most interesting not for what it is but, rather, for what it isn’t
MEGALOPOLIS
Certainly one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays of all time, MEGALOPOLIS is Francis Ford Coppola’s longtime dream project
A TOPIARY
Here we have what has fast become one of the most fabled unfilmed screenplays: a 245 page science fiction themed oddity from Shane Carruth, of PRIMER (2004) and UPSTREAM COLOR (2013)
ALAMUT
A historical epic in the grand tradition, ALAMUT is notable for its subject, a fascinating one that has been surprisingly under-utilized in literature: the so-called “Old Man of the Mountain” Hassan-i Sabbah
THE MASK OF THE BLACK DEATH
Among the world’s most intriguing unmade film projects this 128 page screenplay, the final script to be written by Japan’s late Akira Kurosawa (together with frequent collaborator Masato Ide, who goes uncredited), looms rather largely
THE WYRM
Fast, slick, action packed pulp horror by an author who really knows how to do this sort of thing
TWINS
You probably know this novel as the inspiration for David Cronenberg’s DEAD RINGERS (1988), which was a rare instance of a film adaptation surpassing its source novel