“Horror Movies Should Talk About Social Ills” Says Filmmaker Joe Russo
Joe Russo is a three-time BloodList screenwriter whose recent feature film credits include the Mickey Rourke-starring horror anthology Nightmare Cinema, the Lifetime thriller The Au Pair Nightmare, the Bruce Willis-starring Hard Kill, the Ryan Phillippe, Ving Rhames and Kate Bosworth-starring The Locksmith, the Neal McDonough-starring Soul Mates and the Zac Efron and Russell Crowe-starring The […]
“Take it Back to First Principles” Neal Marshall Stevens Talks Horror Screenwriting
“I have been writing screenplays since I was 13 years old. I have been writing for a long, long time, back before there even were screenwriting books,” said Neal Marshall Stevens, who has 45 writing credits on IMDb (and many more that are unlisted). “I think I bought an old Star Trek episode, which was […]
“No Boobs, Butts, Or Blood” Isabella Price’s Route to Becoming A Horror Video Games Queen
Isabella Price grew up in a Southern Baptist household, so anything containing boobs, butts, or blood was strictly forbidden in the Price household. It was therefore a natural consequence for her to become an artist in the horror space. She admits that she didn’t watch horror movies until she was in her twenties. “I went […]
4 Ways To Boost The Scare Factor In Your Horror Screenplay
It’s Scriptoween month. Time to celebrate all things scary. Time to revisit those horror screenplay files and punch them up. Horror is a nuanced genre and setting up a sequence of gore-filled jump scares for ninety minutes won’t cut it anymore. Audiences are becoming far more sophisticated. Too many horror films rely on gratuitous […]
How To Write A Contained Film
Contained films are restrained stories that have traditionally been limited to the horror/ thriller genre. They are characterized by having few characters (often three to five, sometimes as few as one), no more than one or two main locations such as a haunted house, and a skeleton crew. Most importantly, they are filmed on shoestring budgets. […]
