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 available specs and contract assignments.

New and Recent Projects

STABBIN CABIN
horror/comedy short
Recently completed! Visit website for trailer, images, and more info!
Stabbin Cabin website

SUCKER
horror short
Appeared in several festivals in 2009. I hope to make this viewable online soon.
Sucker website

BOX OF SHADOWS
supernatural thriller
Feature film written by Scott Svatos and Mauro Borrelli. Directed by Mauro Borrelli. Be careful if you write a movie with literally hundreds of special effects. Still in post production!
Box of Shadows website

A few things I'm writing right now...

PANAMINT
horror feature spec

UNTITLED SWEDISH HORROR FILM
horror feature spec

STABBIN CABIN
horror comedy spec

Other Scripts

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!