Horror Best Scene Screenplay Reading: LONG IN THE TOOTH, by Mark Wasserman

Watch the June 2016 Horror Best Scene Screenplay Reading

LONG IN THE TOOTH, by Mark Wasserman

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Horror, Drama

Lonesome, irritable widower Fred Pierce is a senior citizen with bad teeth who lives in a depressing retirement community in a small New England town. One evening, while conversing with his dead wife in the town cemetery he meets Goth kids Bo and Tana.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Kelci Stephenson
TANA – Tee Schneider
FRED – Julian Ford
BO – Nathan Bragg

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?

The story involves an elderly man who gets tricked into believing that blood is the fountain of youth and then starts preying on the young people who befriended him.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

For me, the most effective horror films involve anxiety about something specific, whether it’s THE SHINING and…