Mark Davidson. The Writer.

Archive for August, 2008

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. 

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 into [...]

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’) 
So away you [...]

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.

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