Tag: Kelly Warner

This week the topic of discussion is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (2001, AKA Kairo), a movie that is equal parts about a ghost apocalypse and...

This week's a Kelly pick and she's selected one of the craziest Japanese horror-comedies ever put to film: George Iida's Battle Heater, a movie...

You can tell this week was a Zack pick by the dark subject matter in Guilty of Romance (2011). This film by legendary director...

From missed calls to Toho tokusatsu insanity, One Missed Pod is back with a new episode. This week Zack Long and Kelly Warner are...

Scriptophobic editors Zack Long and Kelly Warner are massive Japanese horror fans. From the earliest silent films (A Page of Madness) to the latest...

When we begin writing a story, we’re in love with an idea. The idea may be bold, maybe it’s weird, could be it’s a...

Most writing advice would suggest you follow a certain formula, as if the best stories are something you create in the lab. And look,...

Fanfiction gets a bad wrap. And I get it. It’s full of weird sex, poor spelling, and a fervent love for a fictional universe...

A bullet might be the fastest way to develop character (or end it). Similarly, dropping a bomb on a city is the most surefire...

In his book On Writing, Stephen King discusses his method for discovering the story as he writes it and why he is not a...

You can learn a lot writing a book. Learn something about yourself, your understanding of genre, and maybe hopefully how to be a better...

I spoke before about how writing fiction can be a lonely task – how sometimes it is necessarily lonely in order to protect the...

Writing is a private ordeal. We sit at the computer and will a world into existence with words. It’s a Herculean task. The loneliness...

“We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!” – The Social Network (2010)   Something I...

In years past, apocalyptic scenarios were most commonly seen in cult classics and midnight drive-in movies. These pieces of art could be incredibly influential,...

Getting Angry I write this on Sunday the 26th of August, 2018. At this time, there is still blood on the floor of a Madden...

We’re always looking for new, amazing art to inspire us. Your favorite author has a new book coming out, that experimental weirdo director you...

I’ve got kaiju on the brain. At the time of this writing, the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) SDCC trailer is a hot topic...

There’s a moment in No Country for Old Men (2007) where Llewelyn (Josh Brolin) checks into a motel while trying to stay one step...

Horror, deep in its dark heart, is about forcing characters to confront the unimaginable: the killer with a knife, the book that raises the...

Good fiction and film requires conflict. And usually when we’re talking about genre, that conflict often includes violence and some amount of blood. How...

The most deluded thing a writer can tell a prospective publisher about their recently finished manuscript is that “it gets better as it goes.”...

Richard Matheson is one of the all-time great writers of horror. From Duel to Stir of Echoes, his stories have repeatedly made the trip...

The common thinking is that the book is always better than its film adaptation. That’s just…not so. It’s easy to understand why we often...

When Lara Croft first introduced herself in 1996’s Tomb Raider she directly appealed to a young male audience of gamers with a mix of...