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Reflections on 16 Years of Horror Festing: Screamfest’s Founder and Director Shares Veteran Insights
The other day I met someone who attended Screamfest in 2005 and he was able to tell me the films…
Eduardo Sánchez and Simon Barrett share a conversation on making each of their Blair Witch films and horror's promise as…
MovieMaker speaks with Demon producer Olga Szymanskaproducer on the film's vision of horror that both disturbs and explores dark passages…
Master of Horror Wes Craven has unleashed incredibly influential horror films over the last four decades, but he prefers to…
So you’re dying to make a horror film. What kind, though? It sounds like an easy question, but given the
Now that your genre film has gotten into a festival, how will you survive it? 1. If your horror film
Is movie makeup still relevant, even in the horror genre? Should indie moviemakers still employ special makeup effects, considering the…
There's lots of guts and even more glory to be had on the horror film fest circuit. Keep this moviemakers'…
To watch Austrian duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy is to be subject to an emotional resonance and…
Successfully franchising a horror film is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted longevity,…
And not every movie needs CGI—after all, nothing feels more, well, magical than an ingenious practical effect. So we asked…
Two first-time filmmakers team up to make a microbudget, DIY fantasy-horror feature about "a portal that allows an unspeakable evil…
Leigh Janiak talked to MovieMaker about her writing process on Honeymoon, shooting on a small budget (especially those tricky lake…
Halloween is right around the corner and to celebrate, MovieMaker is going to be posting spook-tacular articles from our archives…
For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest. Vote for scariest and…
Whenever a new horror film emerges, there seem to be two schools of thought in terms of attendance: “I can’t
Discover how your film can tap into the darkest of human fears with golden rules of macabre moviemaking from Re-Animator…