Scott Anton Svatos is a Los Angeles based 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 Projects

SUCKER -- horror short
Shooting January 2009!

GHOST MACHINE -- supernatural thriller
With Mauro Borelli

BANISHED -- science fiction web series

PANAMINT -- horror feature

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

BLACK METAL -- supernatural horror feature
Visit Black Metal Website

TWIXED -- comedy feature

WHIPLASH -- drama feature
Quarterfinalist - Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest 2007

SEVEN SONS OF THE PREACHER -- action feature

MOUNTAIN MEN -- comedy feature

FIFTH VILLAGE -- medieval adventure 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.