Writer’s Statement

Winner of 94 AWARDS, 16 HONORABLE MENTIONS, and with an additional 107 Nominations, Finalist, and Official Selection accolades (On FilmFreeway) — and counting, the currently unproduced feature film screenplay ‘As Scared As You’ is the 3rd out of 4 screenplays in a Quadrilogy of unrelated stories I had originally outlined, all during a manic episode (at that time yet-to-be diagnosed Bipolar I).

‘As Scared As You’ is a genre mashup that purposely avoids placing well-intentioned, conventional characters front and center because — it's predictable, and we've already seen that a million times.

As a story, it’s cold, and it’s mean.

Essentially, there are no heroes in ‘As Scared As You.’ It's an all-human reverse-home invasion horror/thriller freak show with no one to believe in, in the ensemble of murderers, monsters and villains.

Be less surprised by the level of carnage in ‘As Scared As You,’ and instead, be more surprised if there’s actually a developed character in ‘As Scared As You’ for the general audience to root for.

— Jesse Dorian

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