Tag: Scream
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...
The Queen Attacks in THE FACULTY (1998)
As a high school student in the late 90s and early 2000s who was only peripherally aware of horror, even I knew the name...
Opening a Door on Scream (1996)
One fateful sleepover in the summer of 1998, my friend Erich opened his father’s VHS cabinet and invited the group of us to peer...
Art Imitates Life in Scream (1996)
Sometimes art imitates life. Other times, life imitates art. Suddenly there’s no line between what is fiction and what constitutes reality. In August of...
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...