Mathew Wright lives with his family near the Puget Sound, where his passion for writing spawned at an early age due to island life lacking the thrills and chills he craved from the horror genre. As a teacher, parent, and graduate of literature programs, storytelling is at the core of his world. Recent scripts are "recommended" on the Blcklst website and have placed in the 2023 and 2024 Filmmatic (horror) and Screencraft (horror) competitions and 2023 and 2024 BlueCat semifinals.
Sentinel Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror While protecting a drug dealer-turned-witness staying in a beachside hotel, a U.S. Marshal with an extreme sleep disorder must push through a hallucinatory nightmare in order to survive the night.
Sandbox Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Thriller After a heatwave kills the power grid, a couple's Palm Springs vacation is disrupted when their invasive neighbors - a youthful proselytizer and a baby-boomer “shaman” - use spirituality, drugs and rising temperatures to create a pressure cooker of paranoia and violence.
Knockoff Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Drama A mother's holiday away with the kids is drastically cut short when her husband, enjoying his stay-cation, wakes up one night to find a seemingly identical set of children occupying their home.
Kid Gloves Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror When in her new home a series of eerie incidents escalate into violence, a young woman begins to suspect that the true source of terror may be her fiancé rather than the house itself.
Univeristy of Montana