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Choosing a Victim: Houses, Feasts, Blobs and Dead Kids

One topic that doesn’t come up often in discussions on writing horror is the importance of the victims themselves. There is plenty of writing...

A Lullaby for Mrs. Voorhees: Friday the 13th (1980)

Long before I had ever seen a horror movie in full, I was well aware that a man wearing a hockey mask and brandishing...

Making Sense in the Horror Genre

What is reality, anyways? Of all the writing “rules” that the horror genre gets to play around with – see, Break – this is my...
Michael Myers looks at Bob in kitchen

The Horror of Connotation

While I make it my domain to help screenwriters professionally, both through script consultations and one-on-one mentoring, it is my goal to provide my...
Black Christmas Landscape Movie Poster

The Slasher Film: Memories, Murders, and Myths.

Paul Farrell It was the summer of 1998. I was fourteen, at a sleepover with my closest friends and fighting the group’s movie choice with...