All posts tagged "psycho"
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Going to Extremes: To Create Horror That Shatters the Senses, Be Sensitive to Emotional Extremity
Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to be a... -
First Draft: Manipulate Your Audiences’ Psychological States With These Three Screenwriting Tricks
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Suspense is everywhere in film. It drives... -
First Draft: Start and End With a Bang When Writing Your Screenplay’s First and Last Visuals
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Why the First and Last Visuals of... -
Stranger Danger: How The Eyes of My Mother Uses the Audience’s Imagination for Maximum Scares
A mother sees a strange man talking to her daughter outside. The man says he needs to use the bathroom. He’s nicely... -
Festival Wrap: South Africa’s Durban International Film Festival Reflects on their 34th Year
MovieMaker’s exclusive interview with Durban International Film Festival’s manager Peter Machen touches on the festival’s rich, emotional history: from apartheid onwards to... -
Things I’ve Learned: Gus Van Sant’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Gus Van Sant is one of America’s most heralded, iconic independent auteurs. Based in Portland, Oregon, the low-key Van Sant has written,... -
Sloppy Seconds: The Best (and Worst) Horror Remakes
Horror movie remakes are a dime a dozen these days, with retreads of such genre classics as Poltergeist, Hellraiser and Suspiria currently... -
Starting Strong: Using Your Movie’s Title Sequence Effectively
Released in the mid-1950s from the relatively static role of simply assigning credit, title sequences have evolved into an art form in...
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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