Political supernatural thriller
American Werewolf
A civil rights lawyer inherits an immense fortune and a family curse, then finds herself pulled into a conspiracy that could put a werewolf in the White House.
Open DeckScreenwriter | Director | Novelist
Michael Egan
Australian genre storyteller behind Ghastly Fun Films, where horror, noir, romance, satire, and black comedy collide with a strangely tender heart.
Biography
Genre stories with bite, heart, and a crooked grin.
Michael Egan is an award-winning Australian writer, director, and novelist whose work moves between supernatural horror, political thriller, romantic comedy, historical drama, and crime noir. His voice is built on a sharp tonal balance: emotional stakes, moral pressure, visual boldness, and a blast of irreverent humour when the story gets darkest.
His feature film Love in the First Degree played international festivals including WorldFest-Houston, where it won a Gold Remi Award. His shorts include The Gift, which screened at Palm Springs, Uppsala, London, and other festivals, and Not Quite Tarantino, which played Sitges.
Egan is also the author of The Devil's Detour and Heartless Bastards. His current slate stretches from the White House to Sydney backstreets, Arctic spycraft, cursed bloodlines, blue-collar space salvage, haunted families, killer creatures, and the kind of apocalyptic motel car park only he would dare to make feel inevitable.
30+
years directing and writing
10+
international festival screenings
2
published novels
5
active pitch decks
Current Slate
Dark, funny, dangerous - often in the same scene.
Cold War spy thriller / Nordic noir
Longyearbyen
Two MI6 agents are sent to the northernmost town on Earth after a Heisenberg cube surfaces, uncovering a nuclear plot buried in the ice.
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Sydney noir crime series
Tightrope
A volatile detective fights for her daughter while hunting a vigilante executing the offenders her city failed to convict.
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Horror-comedy / supernatural road movie
Video Nasty
Ann Savage steals a cursed bracelet and becomes bound to a demon, joining a drifter, a disgraced priest, and a karate-kicking nun to stop Armageddon before the blood moon rises.
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Contained sci-fi / labour satire
Mother Lode
On the last day of a thousand-day salvage mission, a deep-space crew finds alien ore, one living survivor, and a corporation ready to redefine humanity for profit.
Open DeckStory Worlds
Romance, revenge, monsters, medicine, ghosts, and bad decisions.
St. Luke's
A grieving doctor wakes in 1980 at the dawn of the AIDS crisis and faces the impossible chance to save the woman he lost.
Marion
A scandal-noir portrait of Marion Davies fighting to control her story in 1920s Hollywood.
Eat Me!
A disgraced chef kidnaps the critic who destroyed her career and turns revenge into a televised feast.
Killer Koala: Kill! Kill! Kill!
A mutant koala lays siege to a remote outback pub in a gleefully feral creature comedy.
The Devil Down Under
An apocalyptic supernatural road movie with a cursed bracelet, Satan's spawn, and divine intervention in questionable disguise.
Simply Fabulous
A retired Hollywood agent and his husband inherit an Australian surf rat and a very inconvenient new chapter of fatherhood.
Selected Work
Festival-tested, genre-bent, and proudly independent.
Love in the First Degree
Independent Australian romantic comedy. Winner of the Gold Remi Award at WorldFest-Houston and screened across international festivals.
The Gift
A romantic short about misguided grand gestures, selected by Palm Springs, Uppsala, London, St Kilda, and more.
Not Quite Tarantino
A comic short about a director's doomed attempt to remake Pulp Fiction shot for shot. Screened at Sitges.
The Devil's Detour / Heartless Bastards
Novels expanding Egan's world of supernatural trouble, moral pressure, vengeance, and darkly comic consequence.
"Sharp. Funny. Tragic. Dangerous - often within the same scene."
Tonal note from Tightrope
Contact
Direct contact and materials
For further information about Michael Egan's slate, reach Michael directly or review the supplied decks and resume.
Michael Egan
Ghastly Fun Films