All posts tagged "Horror"
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“The Best Approach is a Calm Approach”: Welcome to Mercy Screenwriter and Star Kristen Ruhlin on Forging Your Own Moviemaking Path
Kristen Ruhlin knows a thing or two about perseverance. The screenwriter and star of Welcome to Mercy—a trippy dive into the exorcism... -
Stayin’ Alive: What Keeps You Alive‘s Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen on Surviving a Career Wearing Multiple Hats
Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What Keeps You Alive, the Canadian duo... -
Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)
It’s like they always say: if your marriage isn’t going the way you planned, try to spice things up. Maybe have some... -
Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic family to reconstruct genre to its... -
Festival Spotlight: HorrorHound Director Jason Hignite on the Genre Convention’s Evolution into Adding a Film Festival
Lurking in the midwestern shadows of Indianapolis and Cincinnati lies something full of more horror than any convention center could ever fathom….... -
FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes of a mountain-perched farmhouse and one... -
Gentle Heart, Gruesome Imagination: Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943—August 26, 2017)
Tobe Hooper gave me my start in the business. We had the same agent, and he invited my writing partner/now-wife Jace Anderson... -
Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193 million worldwide... -
Unleashing Mayhem: Director Joe Lynch Talks Corporate Horror, and the Joys of Shooting Outside of Hollywood Confines
Joe Lynch is a worker. Ten years ago, with his first feature Wrong Turn 2, he showed jaded horror fans that he... -
First Draft: Craft Top-Notch Cinematic Scares With These 101 Terrifying Horror Story Prompts
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Welcome to the story den of horror,...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8