Tag: Screenwriting

“The first monster that must frighten you is the filmmaker himself” —Wes Craven In the earliest days of my horror movie explorations, there were a handful...

The young woman at the ticket counter smiled politely as my mom handed over the money for the tickets. She didn’t ask questions— she didn’t...

I grew up on the tale end of the arcade boom, only encountering them in my travels a few times as a youth (aboard...

This week’s Scream Writing is going to be a little bit different. If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that I’m a...

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

Kelly Warner, author of the post-apocalyptic kaiju trilogy In the Shadow of Extinction, wrote about how he feels the advice “write what you know”...

Question Scream Writers: What do Shutter Island (2010), Memento (2000), and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) all have in common? Answer: Each of these...

When it comes to learning screenwriting, it never hurts to actually listen to the screenwriters rather than the directors. Seems logical, but some people...

If you're anything like me, you've read enough advice or listened to enough interviews to know that one the best ways to improve as...

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...