All posts tagged "Horror"
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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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Directing
Embrace Horror and Horror Will Embrace You: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass’ Intro to MM’s 2018 Horror Guide
October 24, 2017For our third edition of MovieMaker‘s Guide to Making Horror Movies, we asked indie multi-hyphenates Patrick...
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Movie News
MovieMaker’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies eBook: Now on Sale!
October 23, 2017MovieMaker Magazine’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies is the third in our annual series. This year,...
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Movie News
The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
October 16, 2017The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered...
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MM Guide 2018
“You’re Holding Up a Mirror, and the Reflection is Ugly”: Chucky Creator Don Mancini on Horror Screenwriting
October 10, 2017Being provocative comes with the territory if you’re working within the horror genre. If you’re doing...
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Directing
Frame of Mind: To Build Dread, Dementia 13’s Crew Shot Handheld and Made Its Tunnel Location From Scratch (Video)
October 5, 2017What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s...
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Directing
How They Did It: Why Storyboarding was Crucial to Creating the Gothic Big House of The Lodgers
September 8, 2017A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: Shooting a Flashlit Prison Horror Movie, Against the Night, on the Sony a7S
August 31, 2017From conception, my feature Against the Night, about a group of friends who sneak into an...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: Eliza Sherman’s Revenge Made, Then Ripped Off a Prosthetic Arm Without Paying an Arm and a Leg
June 14, 2017No-budget indie moviemaking is hard enough as it is, but when you decide to throw in...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: "Goodnight"
May 22, 2017Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: Thriller Ascent to Hell Made a Small Location Feel Large Through Careful Planning
March 15, 2017When I closed my eyes I could see it: a factory capable of holding more than...
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Frame of Mind
Frame of Mind: Darren Lynn Bousman Takes You Behind the Scenes of Abattoir (Video)
December 23, 2016What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s...
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