Locarno in Los Angeles returns for its fifth edition today, and co-director Bob Koehler promises films “that you can't peg, slot,…
After working on a wide-release studio picture, it’s not hard for Bryan Woods — co-writer and producer of A Quiet…
To create the murderous soundscapes of Sound of Violence, Jussi Tegelman first tried to scare himself. The sound designer used…
A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes of a mountain-perched farmhouse…
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…
Being provocative comes with the territory if you’re working within the horror genre. If you’re doing the job right you…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, "First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Naming the characters in your…
Now that your genre film has gotten into a festival, how will you survive it? 1. If your horror film…
Talking about film genre is an exercise in stilted speech. Ever had one of those conversations, trying to describe a…