Cutting to the meat of horror.
Watch it. Write it. See what’s coming next.Scary Bacon makes videos about horror, teaches people how to write it, and keeps track of what horror fans are afraid of next. Every path leads somewhere terrible.
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A fantasy horror stock exchange.
Fans determine the value. The industry follows.We make videos.
Smart, honest conversation about horror films, the people who make them, and what they say about us.
We teach people to write it.
Matt Greenberg has spent thirty years in studio writing rooms. Through The Horror Seminar he gives writers real notes, coaching and live classes.
We keep score on fear.
Every fifteen minutes, Terror Terminal counts what fans are talking about and shows what is heating up and what is going cold.
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Straight talk about horror: why it works, who is making it, and where it is going. Good enough to watch even if you never buy a thing from us.
The voice behind the take
Matt Greenberg
Screenwriter. Storyteller. Student of the dark.
Three decades writing horror for the screen. Now, a closer look at what makes it work.
Selected credits
1408 · Pet Sematary · Halloween H20 · Reign of Fire · Seventh Son · The Prophecy II
MATT GREENBERG earned his B.A. in Medieval Studies from Yale University, then went on to study acting and playwriting at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama.
His film writing credits include 1408, starring Oscar nominated actor Samuel Jackson and John Cusack (Dimension Films); REIGN OF FIRE, starring Academy Award winning actors Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey (Disney); HALLOWEEN: H20, starring Jamie Lee Curtis (Dimension Films); PROPHECY II, starring Oscar winning actor Christopher Walken; MERCY (based on the short story “Gramma” by Stephen King) from producer Jason Blum and Universal Studios; SEVENTH SON, starring Academy Award winners Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, for Universal and Legendary Pictures; and the 2019 remake of Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY for Paramount Pictures/Lorenzo di Bonaventura Productions.
He has also performed uncredited rewrites on a number of films, including Guillermo del Toro’s MIMIC. To date, Matt’s movies have collectively earned over $1 billion dollars in box office and ancillary markets. HALLOWEEN: H20 remains one of the top grossing and best reviewed films in the HALLOWEEN franchise. PET SEMATARY and 1408 are two of the highest grossing films based on a Stephen King property.
In television, Matt created the INVISIBLE MAN series that ran for several seasons on the SyFy Channel. He also wrote the episode “THE FAIR HAIRED CHILD” for Showtime’s anthology series, MASTERS OF HORROR. He has developed pilots for AMC, CW, SyFy, USA Networks, Disney + and Warner Bros TV.
Matt’s latest feature script, SAWBONES, is based on a story by Stan Lee, and will be directed by renowned auteur Timur Bekmambetov (NIGHT WATCH, DAY WATCH, WANTED). He is also at work on the feature THE UNDERTAKER for ZQ Entertainment.
Matt currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife and three children.
“Hollywood tends to treat terror like a spreadsheet of jump scares. But real dread operates like contagion, an invisible psychological current running beneath culture. Terror Terminal is our instrument to measure that current before the box office numbers confirm it.”
WGA West MemberYale University (B.A. Medieval Studies)London’s Central School of Speech and Drama
- 30+ years
- Writing for Hollywood
- Stephen King
- Stories adapted for the screen
- Horror franchises
- From Halloween to Pet Sematary
He spent three decades making horror. Now he’s decoding it.