Sex In A Submarine

The adventures of a professional screenwriter and sometimes film festival jurist, slogging through the trenches of Hollywood, writing movies that you have never heard of, and getting no respect.
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Thursday, April 02, 2026

THRILLER Thursday: WAXWORKS

SEASON 2: WAXWORKS The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 2, Episode: 16. Airdate: J...

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Film Courage Plus: Writing On Deadline

FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me at the end of 2014, and then again at the end of 2015... and that's 36 (or more) segment...

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Trailer Tuesday: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

When I was a kid this was one of my favorite movies... because it was funny *and* scary. And it was so scary when I was a kid that parts of ...

Friday, March 27, 2026

Fridays With Hitchcock:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

Screenplay by Norman Krasna. There are no cross-dressing killers, no stolen microfilm, no man wrongly accused of a crime in this Hitchcock...

Thursday, March 26, 2026

THRILLER Thursday: An Attractive Family

SEASON 2: AN ATTRACTIVE FAMILY The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 2 , Episode: 15. Ai...

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Film Courage Plus: Landing A Writing Gig

FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me in 2014 and 2015 -about 36 (or more) segments total. That's almost a year's worth of...

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About Me

wcmartell: I've written 19 films that were carelessly slapped onto celluloid: 3 for HBO, 2 for Showtime, 2 for USA Net, and a whole bunch of CineMax Originals (which is what happens when an HBO movie goes really, really wrong). I've been on some film festival juries, including Raindance in London (four times - once with Mike Figgis and Saffron Burrows, once with Lennie James and Edgar Wright). Roger Ebert talked about me with Gene Siskel on his 1997 "If We Picked The Winners" Oscar show. I'm quoted a few times in Bordwell's great book "The Way Hollywood tells It". My USA Net flick HARD EVIDENCE was released on video the same day as the Julia Roberts' film Something To Talk About and out-rented it in the USA. I've also written a whole bunch of theatrical projects that never got made (I got paid) and was stupid enough to actually *turn down* the job of adapting Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS. On the personal side - I'm single and fat and 6 foot 4 inches tall. Like dogs, hate cats.
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