Scott Anton Svatos is a screenwriter who specializes in genre-based entertainment, especially horror. Please contact Scott directly for loglines, scripts, samples, and information regarding specs and assignments.

New Releases

The Ghostmaker, written by Scott Svatos, has been released by Lionsgate!

Recent Work

STABBIN CABIN
horror/comedy short written by Scott Svatos, produced by Scott Svatos and Karl Hunter

Official Selection, Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2011. Visit website for trailer, images, and more info!
Stabbin Cabin website

SUCKER
horror short, written by Scott Svatos

Official Selection, Rhode Island Horror Film Festival 2009, New Orleans Vampire Film Festival 2009.
Sucker website

Specs

PANAMINT
horror feature

EL TORO
horror feature

With Mauro Borrelli

WOLF RIDERS
horror/western feature

With Mauro Borrelli

WITCH SOLDIERS
supernatural horror feature
With Mauro Borrelli

BLOOD QUEENS OF SUBURBIA
horror/comedy feature

Voted one of top scripts, Screenwriting Expo 2007
Quarterfinalist, Scriptapalooza 2008
Visit Blood Queens Website

VIKING DOOM
horror/comedy feature

Visit Viking Doom Website

WHIPLASH
drama feature

Quarterfinalist - Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest 2007

SEVEN SONS OF THE PREACHER
action feature

Visit my screenwriting blog

Ride a Bike, Go to Jail, article
Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
AK Press, 2002

Dandelion Power, short story
Bear Deluxe Magazine
ORLO, Summer 2000

Smoke and Mirrors, film review
Nepantla
UCLA, Fall 1997

Death Race 2000, film review
Sarasota Arts Review
1995

Don't Trust the Trailer, film review
Art Rag
1995

Dandelion Power, short story
reprint of 2000 story from Bear Deluxe Magazine
Sunspinner (online literary journal)
Spring 2006

Beyond the Hollywood Domain: The Cinema of the Web, article
Digital Arts Institute (institutional website)
1998

It Cuts: Tsui Hark's "The Blade", film review
Strobe (online film journal)
UCLA, 1997

Winner, Edward Abbey Fiction Award (2000)
Bear Deluxe Magazine
for short story, Dandelion Power

Second Place, Bayboro Fiction Contest (1995)
for short story, + - x ÷

I was a clerk at the Fort Myers News-Press for two years, writing various short pieces on local sports (1987-1989). Sometimes I even covered games I was in, because I was in high school at the time!