Evan Dickson's Totem is the first feature length screenplay he's seen produced, and he's brought three pages of the screenplay with him for us to analyze on the show. The horror film about a widower bringing a new girlfriend to live with him and his 17- and 8-year-old daughters in a home with a vengeful spirit hits Cinemax on Halloween night.

We chat with him about writing a fresh installment from a well-worn genre [

25:35] and then do a surprisingly competent dramatic reading of three pages from the screenplay [27:00 - 48:00] before dissecting what the scene is supposed to achieve and how it does it.

After the Credits: Geostorm

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