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Featured Friday: Monster Movies

October 25, 2024 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at how monster movies use their creatures to express and exploit our deepest fears.

Our collection includes:

  • A Quiet Place by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
  • Aliens by James Cameron
  • An American Werewolf in London by John Landis
  • Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
  • Cloverfield by Drew Goddard
  • Crawl by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen
  • Godzilla (2014) by D. Callaham
  • IT by Chase Palmer & CJ Fukunaga
  • It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
  • Jaws by Peter Benchley
  • Jurassic Park by David Koepp
  • King Kong by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  • No One Will Save You by Brian Duffield
  • Nope by Jordan Peele
  • Prey by Patrick Aison
  • The Babadook by Jennifer Kent
  • The Fly by David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue
  • The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
  • The Terminator by James Cameron
  • Under the Skin by Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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