Scream Writing Questions

This Scream Writing Questions post should have been up two years ago but somehow it managed to slip through the cracks of email, a damned shame considering that David J. Stieve wrote one of...

Pat Higgins reached out to me on Twitter while we were looking for new people to talk to. Can't say how glad I am that he did, this week's Scream Writing Questions is a great...

When it comes to horror, it's surprising just how well it meshes with comedy. Perhaps no one knows that better than Chance Shirley, writer/director on For a Few Zombies More (2015) and Hide and Creep (2004). What...

This week Scriptophobic is joined by Andrew Bellware to answer some Scream Writing Questions, explore the art of screenwriting, and dig into the love of sci-fi and genre. What first got you interested in screenwriting? I first...

We're talked to a lot of great people on Scream Writing Questions but this is the first time that I've been so excited to talk to someone that I'm at a loss for words. Adam...

Let's kick off this week's Scream Writing Questions with an episode of Larissa Thomas and Alicia Faucher's delightful web series Allie & Lara Make a Horror Movie to get a taste of the fun to be...

Write, write, write. Scream Writer Harrison Smith boils down his advice until there's no fat left on the bone – just like if it were a screenplay! Today, the writer/director joins Scriptophobic to talk about...

This week we got to talk to Michael J. Kospiah about Scream Writing and the importance of not being afraid to write shitty. Writing is rewriting, as the saying goes (and Kospiah elaborates), so...

This week we're chatting with A.D Calvo, Scream Writer and director of Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016), quite possibly my favorite film of 2016 (and it was a year with some damned fine contenders!). In...

Every Scream Writer we talk to has wonderful advice to share and Manuel Alejandro Anell is no different! Rebelling against what he was taught, exploring the limitless nature of creativity, and letting the characters life...

This week Scriptophobic is joined by Tony Newton, writer of Toxic Shlock (2017) and Home Videos (2017). Tony's produced, written, and directed short films that have been in a variety of collections such as 60 Seconds to...

Reading through this week's questions, I was struck at how much Jamie Nash's answers reminded me of my own thoughts and answers. Scream Writer of Altered (2006), Lovely Molly (2011), the Zombie GoPro segment of V/H/S/2 (2013), Exists (2014),...

This week we're joined by Writer-Director William Dickerson. William has been keeping himself busy with a plethora of titles since 2013 and doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon. From his love...

This week Scriptophobic was lucky enough to talk to Scum of the Earth Films's Suri Parmar. Apart from tons of hands on and theoretical training in ScreamWriting, Suri has explored storytelling in prose for New Haven...

Here on Scriptophobic, we believe that studying screenplays and discussing the writing process are of vital importance to a Scream Writer's growth. That's why we here at Scriptophobic are proud to bring you a new...