Revising old scripts

This has been something on my "to do" list for a long time.

Last summer I re-read (for the 200th time) scripts I'd already revised (Personal Demons and Flatdog).

But tonight I re-read a script I wrote in the summer of 2004 and have probably only ever read once or twice since then.

It is called Hooded and it is a period-piece werewolf film that takes place in Germany just after the end of the Thirty-Years War.

Upon re-reading it I am immensely impressed by some of the dialog (written in mode of classic gothic melodrama), the descriptions, the visual references and allusions I make, the pacing... basically everything. I honestly didn't give my 24-year-old self enough credit.

At any rate, I am very pleased with this revision and can't wait to show it to others.

Though, as for submitting it, I've been warned to keep period pieces in my back pocket. Studios apparently don't like them, as they're expensive and complicated to make. They say to keep it in reserve,; then, when you're granted a screenwriting career, then notify them of your period piece passion project.

And this is mine.

It combines my love of Hammer horror (this script was actually inspired by Terrence Fisher's Curse of the Werewolf... and Vincent Ward's aborted Alien 3), Universal horror (especially the works of the Siodmak brothers), German Expressionist horror films (obviously) and modern period piece horror films (Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves, From Hell, Brotherhood of the Wolf, etc.).