Joseph Murillo is a horror writer that puts new spins on classic Creature Features. He attended CSU Northridge where he received a M.F.A. in Screenwriting. In 2022, his Horror/Sci-fi script, The Colony, won Best Sci-fi feature at the HorrOrigins Film Festival. A proof of concept was produced for his Horror script, Cryptids, for winning the Reno-Tahoe Screenplay competition.
Cryptids Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Adventure When a Cryptozoologist answers a call to help search for a friend who’s gone missing in the Canadian wilderness, she finds herself fighting to protect more than the search team from an insatiable monster.
SILVER Budget: $5M - $10M | Western ⋄ Horror The young sheriff of an Old West mining town struggles to defend his people from a werewolf that's claimed the territory as its new hunting ground.
The Colony Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror A struggling family relocates to a desert home built on top of a growing infestation of chemically mutated ants looking to tear their fresh start apart.