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Featured Friday: Stalkers

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Featured Friday: Stalkers

Drew Marquardt

10 Oct 2025 — 1 min read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at characters who fixate on others to the point of obsession, and how stalkers can illuminate the darker sides of human nature.

Our collection includes:

Ingrid Goes West by David Branson Smith & Matt Spicer
Misery by William Goldman
Swarm - “Stung” by Janine Nabers
Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader
The Boy Next Door by Barbara Curry
The Cable Guy by Judd Apatow
The King of Comedy by Paul D. Zimmerman
You - “Pilot” by Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble

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