By Thomas Fenton You hand in your script—your baby —and wait. You daydream about a polite email saying “Brilliant work, no changes...

By Thomas Fenton Ah, Christmas. A time for carols, cocoa, and cozying up by the fire with… a good old-fashioned bloodbath? That’s...

(or how to piss off a ton of writers just trying to do their best - I still say it's dangerous.) By Thomas Fenton Imagine it’s Florence,...

By Thomas Fenton Working on Saw  was like walking into a horror movie and never yelling “cut.” It was dark, intense, relentless—and one...

By Thomas Fenton If you want to get better at tennis, you don’t practice with someone you can easily beat. You play with someone who...

By Thomas Fenton When people hear the term screenwriter , most imagine someone holed up in a dim room, hammering out dialogue and plot...

By Thomas Fenton Let’s get something out of the way: yes, versatility is great. You can write a rom-com on Monday, a gritty mob thriller...

By Thomas Fenton Let’s get one thing straight: I’ve worked in the trenches of the horror genre. I’ve seen it evolve, splinter, get...

By Thomas Fenton Today, June 20th, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws . To celebrate, I want to share my thoughts on...

Before I ever typed Fade In , pitched a story, or sat across from a producer in a development meeting, I was a grip. I was the person...

By Thomas Fenton Over the years, I’ve had the privilege (and occasional torment) of crawling through the blood-soaked trenches of...

By Thomas Fenton In the vast landscape of creative endeavors, few pursuits are as captivating and transformative as the craft of...

The simple answer is this, I enjoy teaching. When you work as much as I do it’s all about the deadlines. It’s all about making producers hap

T he first time I was ever scared at the movies (so I was told) was when Ebenezer Scrooge fell through the bottomless grave that led into...