Writing

Steven Katz

Born 1959-10-08

Steven Katz is a screenwriter and television writer living in New York City. Among his feature credits is the original script for the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire (Horror Writers Association/Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Screenplay). His television credits include Showtime’s Fallen Angels (1992-1993), HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon (Emmy Award for Outstanding Mini-Series 1997-1998), Cinemax’s The Knick (Peabody Award 2014-2015), and Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber (2017).

Acting credits

A short documentary made for the 2019 Criterion Collection DVD release of NOTORIOUS featuring new and archival interviews with scholars Steven D. Katz and Bill Krohn, storyboard artists Gabriel Hardman and Harold Michelson, production designer Robert F. Boyle, and others. Filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into the extensive preproduction and previsualization processes Alfred Hitchcock undertook to ensure his cinematic vision for NOTORIOUS would be realized precisely.

Writing with the Camera

2019

Behind the camera

5.8

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Wind Chill

2007

6.7

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

Shadow of the Vampire

2000