Loglines & Screenplays by Mathew Wright

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One Eye Open

GENRES: Crime, Thriller / Suspense

Isolated in an off-season hotel on the Oregon coast, a controlling U.S. Marshal with a severe sleep disorder must confront her hallucinatory nightmares to protect her crafty informant from ruthless killers.

It's Black Swan meets Assault on Precinct 13.

Knockoff

GENRES: Drama, Horror

After their two children inexplicably duplicate overnight and start acting out in disturbing ways, a couple’s Christmas break with the family becomes a minefield of dread as they grapple with the gnawing uncertainty of which kids are truly their own.

It's Dead Ringers meets Ordinary People.


Toast

GENRES: Action, Horror

After the sighting of a notorious serial killer triggers a sudden hotel lockdown, a couple's twentieth anniversary celebration transforms into a nightmarish gauntlet, forcing them to fight for the survival of both their lives and their marriage before the night is over.

What happens when Before Midnight and The Raid meet the slasher genre.


Nasty Out There

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

Trapped by a heatwave-triggered blackout on their Palm Springs vacation, a rebounding couple must combat invasive neighbors - a youthful proselytizer and a baby-boomer ‘shaman’ - as spirituality, drugs, and rising temps twist their R&R into a pressure cooker of paranoia and violence.

Karyn Kusama's The Invitation and Midsommar go to Coachella.

Kid Gloves

GENRES: Horror


Hoping for a fresh start after a miscarriage and her fiancé's career scandal, a young teacher's ambitions are violently interrupted when a move into a fixer-upper home unleashes a childlike monster: the terrifying manifestation of her partner's fragile ego, determined to consume anything, or anyone, in its path.

It's Marriage Story meets The Brood.

Mouth to Mouth

GENRES: Drama, Horror

Three women are forced set aside their differences to combat the grief and violence threatening to consume their family when a brutal attack turns their matriarch into something less than human.

Let the Right One In meets Cronenberg's The Fly.


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