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Here's an interview I did with J. Thorn, a top - five Amazon horror writer about his upcoming speaking slot at Author Marketing Live.

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In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

«People tend to think that Stephen King is anti-religious because he is a horror writer, but that's completely mistaken,» says Zahl, a retired Episcopal priest who has written about King's religious sensibility for Christianity Today magazine.

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So compelling is writer - director Joel Potrykus» unnerving scenario — with its largely ambiguous tone of horror dramatically offset at times by explicit frights — that a viewer isn't necessarily bothered by a lack of basic story information about who, what, when, where and why.

Writer / director Jordan Peele has crafted a funny, scary, and provocative horror film about racism.

Eric Heisserer and Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) are the writers tasked with bringing Van Helsing to life, and when HitFix recently spoke with Heisserer about his upcoming horror film Lights Out, he cited Mad Max as a major source of inspiration for the new and improved Van Helsing:

Neve Campbell talks with Jimmy Kimmel about her role in the upcoming horror film Wes Craven's «Scream 4» from writer Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries) by director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Cursed, Red Eye) and starring Courteney Cox (Cougar Town, Scrubs), Neve Campbell (The Simpsons, Vivaldi, Owl Song), David Arquette (Pushing Daisies, Hamlet 2, Conception) and produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein (Halloween III, Inglourious Basterds, Piranha 3 - D).

Writer / director Jeremy Saulnier has crafted a horror film that plays upon the well - chosen phobias about extremists, backwoods rough justice, and the down side of the music business.

Cheekily accepting at face value the government's demotivational horror stories about LSD usage, writer - director Jeff Lieberman effectively interrogates the counterculture's mythic appraisal of its own legacy, while at the same time sticking it to middle - class conformism, suburban anomie, and political opportunism.

A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking about what it was like for budding horror buffs to discover low - budget horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.

Despite directing the definitive horror series about demonic possession, neither director William Friedkin nor writer William Peter Blatty (who passed away earlier this year) actually witnessed a real exorcism.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

The writer / director talks with Spinoff about the true events that inspired the feature, and the daunting task of making a Hammer horror film.

So says writer - director Jordan Peele in Get Out, a horror / comedy hybrid about a black man (Golden Globe - nominated Daniel Kaluuya) who visits the posh, apparently liberal family home of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) and ends up (spoiler alert) walking into a racist ambush.

Yes, to overcome their writers» block (though they prefer not to use the term), they wrote a surrealist horror movie about a screenwriter suffering from writer's block.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

Sinister (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- Ethan Hawke makes his horror film debut in this twisted tale about a true crime writer so desperate for another hit he moves his family into the home of a grisly murder.

Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.

The disc also comes with a 51 - minute TV spot from 1987 featuring Vincent Price discussing his career with historian David Del Valle, an interview with writer Richard Matheson and a video essay about the career of director Jacques Tourneur so there's plenty of material for fans to trawl through, but overall The Comedy of Terrors may not be a classic when compared to its main cast members» more celebrated works but it is a fun ride through the cemetery with four bona fide horror legends as your guides.

An evil entity is about to make its way home when Vision Films releases the Award - winning horror movie The Unwilling from Academy Award - nominated writer / director Jonathan Heap...

In the third and final installment of our interview with Adam Hann - Byrd, we'll talk about acting lessons from Jodie Foster, moving behind the screen as a writer, and Adam's personal favorite horror movies, coming soon to HalloweenDailyNews.com!

In this interview from E3 2015, writer David Chen talks about the influences and goals for Narcosis, a survival horror title set at the bottom of...

Get Out — Writer / director Jordan Peele made a genre horror film into the most potent statement on screen this year about race, cannily playing the conventions of the genre and the discomfort and hostility about race off of each other.

While the overall Academy tends to be a tad myopic and snobby about horror fare, the writers and directors do like to champion emerging talent, from Orson Welles («Citizen Kane») and John Singleton («Boyz N the Hood») to Benh Zeitlin («Beasts of the Southern Wild»), even when the movie gets raunchy.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.

Writer - director Tom Holland's 1985 creep - out — about a suburban teen who suspects that his suave, handsome neighbor is a vampire — was a fun blend of horror, humor and suspense.

Drag Me to Hell Rated PG - 13 for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Writer / director Sam Raimi (Spiderman / Evil Dead) brings us this tale about a young girl so desperate to become an assistant manager at her bank that she turns down an old woman who requests some more time to pay back her loan.

The supernatural scare-fest about a true - crime writer and his family terrorized by a pagan deity named Bughuul made an even bigger splash in horror circles, and more importantly proved to Marvel that he and co-screenwriter C. Robert Cargill (with whom he would re-team on Strange) could create and maintain a mythology around the paranormal.

M. Night Shyamalan, the writer - director, has been successful in evoking horror from minimalist stories, as in «Signs,» which if you think about it rationally is absurd — but you get too involved to think rationally.

* This release is limited to 1000 copies only * Road to Perdition, B - Movie Style: An extensive interview with «Hellgate» director William A. Levey (HD, 35 mins) * Alien Invasion, Blaxploitation and Ghost - Busting Mayhem: Scholar, Filmmaker and fan Howard S. Berger reflects on the intriguing film career of William A. Levey (HD, 12 mins) * Video Nasty: Kenneth Hall, writer of the Puppet Master series, speaks about the direct - to - video horror boom that allowed «Hellgate» to become a classic of the cassette rental era (HD, 8 mins) * Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys * Collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Lee Gambin, illustrated with original artwork and stills * A DVD of the film is also included alongside the Blu - ray disc

And yet, there's something undeniably irritating about someone remaking An American Werewolf in London, one of the greatest horror movies of all time and the crown jewel of writer / director John Landis «career.

Those are about the only plot details that can be gleaned from the mysterious first trailer for It Comes At Night, the new horror movie from writer - director Trey Edward Shults.

Here you'll find a saga from Paul Thomas Anderson; a dramadey about writer's block; an underrated film from M. Night Shyamalan; a John Carpenter classic; a horror movie unlike any other; a star - studded alien invasion comedy; and more!

Just ask any crime, horror or thriller writer about how the invention of the mobile phone disrupted age - old genre setups.

What is perhaps most interesting to contemplate about this story is that this is the type of ghost / horror story that existed before the advent of Edgar Allan Poe and probably would have been the state of the American horror art when he was a young writer.

This might be a little difficult if you are writing a horror book about the survival of cardboard or some other obscure subject, but the sad truth is that 99 % of writers will create a book that is similar to something else already being sold.

Sheila Clover English is the author of a non fiction book about marketing and book trailers as well as a fantasy, scifi, YA, romance and horror writer.

I write about ghost's, psycho, werewolves, vampires, demons, the devil, blood, guts and sex - a horror writers staple diet!

When I first published, I decided to self - publish because of the advice I was hearing from such places as the San Francisco Writers Conference or the Self Publishing Podcast, and the horror stories I was hearing from other authors about bad experiences they were having with small presses.

Why and When I Will Begin Boycotting the HWA (Brian Keene) Profoundly disturbing story about some of the goings on with the Horror Writers Association.

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Now don't mis - understand me, co-op I guess could be done in any genre / game but outside of shooters it doesn't automatically make sense, Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, set in an open world game where YOU play as a writer who's trying to discover the mystery of what seems to be your latest horror story which you can't even remember for some reason is now coming to life, in a small isolated town; oh and your wife has vanished too = Alan Wake himself IS the story, co-op in this case would be redundant for a story driven type game like Alan Wake since at its core its all about YOU deciding where to go an «unlocking» the plot for YOURSELF.

Maybe, you've heard about our previous work, a playable homage to classic horror writers (Lovecraft, Poe, & Machen):

ALAN WAKE Developer: Remedy Entertainment Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Platforms: Xbox 360, PC Release date: «When it's done» About the game: Alan Wake is a third - person action - adventure game where you step into the uncomfortable shoes of Mr. Wake, a successful horror writer with a serious case of the writer's block.

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares.

Indie writer Annapurna Interactive has introduced Outer Wilds, a first - person house thriller sport about exploring the horrors of the universe.

United States About Youtuber Erick Alden is a video - creator, horror writer, and lover of the mysterious.

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