School of Fear
Emmy-nominated writer/director and founder of the Daywalt Fear Factory, Drew Daywalt explores what terrifies us and why, and the anatomy of translating those collective nightmares into the on-screen scares we love. Follow him on Twitter @DrewDaywalt.
09/16/2010 - 10:35pm
It's finally official. The web series I wrote and directed has found a home. Camera Obscura, 20 episodes of demon hunting horror, will be airing on October 1st on Dailymotion.com in conjunction with MORE
08/12/2010 - 9:58pm
I get a lot of email from young film makers and horror fans asking advice of all kinds. But recently I got one that rocked my world.All it said was "What do you want to be when you grow up?" in the body of the MORE
07/28/2010 - 8:36pm
I write about fear. Generally I write about how to create fear, how I respond to fear, what tactics and philosophies work when generating fear, how fear translates to the language of cinema, etc. So when MORE
06/07/2010 - 6:14pm
When I was about 6 years old, my then 80-something grandfather would come to visit us once a year from Florida. He'd retired there after 50 years in the police force. Usually he would just sit in my dad's well MORE
02/24/2010 - 7:09pm
Time for School. Literally. You wanna make your own horror films? Awesome, but you better do what all the greats have done before you and study the masters. There's a handful of them, but I'm going to start with MORE
04/07/2011 - 8:14pm
It's a weird thing I did this week.
I just wrote a zombie movie for George Romero.
Well, truth be told, I didn't write the whole thing this week. It's something I've been working on for a while, but I did hand it MORE
01/24/2011 - 9:05pm
Last blog, I started an examination of the horror comedy and why it seems everyone fucks it up. If you haven't read that one yet, check it out before continuing on below.
I've said this before in other blog posts MORE