All posts tagged "Horror"
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Movie News
A House on the Bayou Director Alex McAulay Deconstructed This Horror Movie Trope
December 10, 2021A House on the Bayou writer-director Alex McAulay is a big fan of classic horror movies....
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Movie News
Lamb Started Out as an Experiment in Filmmaking
October 8, 2021The seed for the horror film Lamb was planted when moviemaker Valdimir Jóhannsson and author-poet-screenwriter Sjón...
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Interviews
George Romero: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker (From the MovieMaker Archives)
June 12, 2021This filmmaking advice from George Romero was originally published on May 26, 2010. He died on...
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Movie News
Crimes Against Your Ears: Inside the Auditory Slasher Sound of Violence
June 1, 2021To create the murderous soundscapes of Sound of Violence, Jussi Tegelman first tried to scare himself....
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Podcasts
Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall Want to Be Judged by Their Work — Starting With The Reckoning
May 22, 2021If you’ve read anything about Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall in the last two years, it’s...
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Interviews
John Carpenter Talks Remakes and the “Insane Business” of Horror Moviemaking
May 22, 2021In Hollywood these days, it sometimes seems easier to find an actor who’ll admit to having...
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Movie News
What Lies Below: 8 Red Flags That Pointed to Stepdad's Abuse — Before the Lizard Stuff
April 9, 2021What Lies Below is a horror-thriller about a girl who comes home from summer camp to...
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Movie News
How Much of Amazon's Them Is Based on a True Story?
April 9, 2021Them, the new Amazon Prime horror series about suburban racism, begins with some truthful background: “Between 1916...
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Movie News
The Vigil: How Keith Thomas Created His Authentic Jewish Horror Film (Exclusive Clip)
March 3, 2021Keith Thomas got the idea for The Vigil when he was at a synagogue and overheard...
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Movie News
The Vigil: How Keith Thomas Created His Authentic Jewish Horror Film (Exclusive Clip)
March 3, 2021Keith Thomas got the idea for The Vigil when he was at a synagogue and overheard...
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2020 Genre Fests
The World’s 50 Best Genre Festivals 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway
October 27, 2020This list of the World’s 50 Best Genre Fests originated at a dinner in Park City,...
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Interviews
Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand on the Thrills of Devolving Into ‘Just Complete Chaos’ in The Rental (Podcast)
July 24, 2020At the start of The Rental, we see characters played by Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand...
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Directing
“The Best Approach is a Calm Approach”: Welcome to Mercy Screenwriter and Star Kristen Ruhlin on Forging Your Own Moviemaking Path
November 8, 2018Kristen Ruhlin knows a thing or two about perseverance. The screenwriter and star of Welcome to...
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Other
Stayin’ Alive: What Keeps You Alive‘s Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen on Surviving a Career Wearing Multiple Hats
August 30, 2018Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What...
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Movie News
Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)
August 14, 2018It’s like they always say: if your marriage isn’t going the way you planned, try to...
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Directing
Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
July 20, 2018In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic...
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Festivals
Festival Spotlight: HorrorHound Director Jason Hignite on the Genre Convention’s Evolution into Adding a Film Festival
May 21, 2018Lurking in the midwestern shadows of Indianapolis and Cincinnati lies something full of more horror than...
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Festivals
FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
March 7, 2018A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes...
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Crossing the Line
Gentle Heart, Gruesome Imagination: Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943—August 26, 2017)
January 25, 2018Tobe Hooper gave me my start in the business. We had the same agent, and he...
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MM Guide 2018
Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
November 14, 2017We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a...
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Directing
Unleashing Mayhem: Director Joe Lynch Talks Corporate Horror, and the Joys of Shooting Outside of Hollywood Confines
November 10, 2017Joe Lynch is a worker. Ten years ago, with his first feature Wrong Turn 2, he...
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First Draft
First Draft: Craft Top-Notch Cinematic Scares With These 101 Terrifying Horror Story Prompts
November 1, 2017In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Welcome...
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Movie News
ICYMI: The Best of October 2017 on MovieMaker.com
November 1, 2017October 2017 was an especially spooky month on Moviemaker.com. With the brand new introduction of The...
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Directing
“Society is the Monster”: Jordan Peele on Racism as Horror, Writers’ Block and More at 2017 Film Independent Forum
October 31, 2017“Any good scary moment or scene is not very intellectual for me. It’s from the gut....
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