Tag: Friday the 13th
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...
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...
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...