All posts tagged "Horror"
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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,... -
ICYMI: The Best of October 2017 on MovieMaker.com
October 2017 was an especially spooky month on Moviemaker.com. With the brand new introduction of The World’s 15 Best Genre Fests, tips... -
“Society is the Monster”: Jordan Peele on Racism as Horror, Writers’ Block and More at 2017 Film Independent Forum
“Any good scary moment or scene is not very intellectual for me. It’s from the gut. It’s a feeling. It’s a vibe,”... -
Embrace Horror and Horror Will Embrace You: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass’ Intro to MM’s 2018 Horror Guide
For our third edition of MovieMaker‘s Guide to Making Horror Movies, we asked indie multi-hyphenates Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, who have... -
MovieMaker’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies eBook: Now on Sale!
MovieMaker Magazine’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies is the third in our annual series. This year, we invited Creep 2 collaborators Mark Duplass... -
The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6