Mike W. Underwood

Screenwriter

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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March 2023

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About Mike

I have a passion for dark, twisting and twisted TV and film which gets the heart racing, the mind questioning and the soul begging for mercy!

A little bit about me - armed with a journalism degree, I have been writing professionally since 1999 after becoming a reporter and spending 11 years neck-deep in covering crime and politics in England, Scotland and the United States. I spent two hair-raising years as a night shift city reporter on the Boston Herald in Massachusetts

Since 2010, I have worked in the less treacherous world of PR & Communications, winning national awards for creative campaigns, media relations and team leadership for a range of public and private sector organisations.

But my true passion is for creative writing, and especially screenwriting and my ambition, aspiration and dream is to become a full-time spec screenwriter, crafting original TV and film in the horror / thriller genre. My ideas explore the world of the supernatural, the occult and the darker side of human nature and my work always seeks to trick the audience with a twist and engage them with characters full of heart, warmth and who are rooted in reality.

Gender:
Male

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Convent Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror After escaping the dangers of the city to a countryside sanctuary, a terrified recluse is forced to defend his family after unwittingly freeing a sadistic, blood-thirsty creature beneath his new home.
Howling Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A debt-ridden ex-cop lands a lucrative contract to solve disappearances in a remote town. But he eventually realises they have been murdered by psychopathic family in twisted games - and he is their next ‘contestant’.
Hitched Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Horror With a vicious serial killer on the loose, a travelling salesman picks up a desperate hitch-hiker during a Christmas Eve blizzard. Does one of them know more about the murders than they're letting on?
Undelivered Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A teen nerd suspects his family may be serial killers after receiving horrifying texts on a broken mobile phone from a girl who disappeared 20 years ago. Now he must stop them from killing again.
Worn Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror When two cops search for a missing girl in a long-abandoned school with a macabre history, their rescue mission becomes a fight for survival after they disturb a nest of vicious cannibals.

Awards

Hitched was a finalist in the ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition / Top 5% Coverfly
(2022)
Convent was a finalist in The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest / Top 5% Coverfly
(2022)