29 Aug
Writing for the genre
Slasher’s come. Slasher’s go. A dime a dozen? Sure. Most quickly fade into obscurity. Mocked. Forgotten. But a few stick around. Back in 1978, at the tender age of 11, I saw Halloween.
Archive for August, 2008
21 Aug
Iconic Images. They make or break ya.
I just watched the remake of ‘Wizard of Gore.’ I didn’t like it. I was expecting something campy, lotsa of nude girls, lots of gore. What I got was a sort of straight-up horror film (with a lot of gore and a lot of nude chicks). Crispin Glover, who I really wanted to see get [...]
15 Aug
We Just Won’t Talk About That (Gravity in Space)
Reality’s a bitch. Say your writing The Next Big Thing. A sci-fi story. It takes place in space. Maybe a creature feature on some enormo space-liner that whips around the galaxy at speeds faster than light pushed and pulled by an energy bubble of dark light. Maybe this beauty: (FYI: That beauty is ’The Cygnus’ from Disney’s ‘The Black Hole’) [...]
08 Aug
Project Updates
For all of you folks asking “what’s up with [INSERT TITLE HERE].” Here we go. A blow by blow run-down… On Every. Single. Script.
01 Aug
The Fourth
Finished my new script last Sunday. It’s called ‘THE FOURTH.’ You know the best thing about a firecracker? It’s the antici.. It’s the antici… … tici… Anticipation.