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.
11/05/2010 - 3:00pm
Okay, so Halloween is over, the pumpkins are rotting, the good candy has been cherry-picked from the trick r'’ treat bag, and the Great Pumpkin has once again not appeared to take us all to Heaven in MORE
10/29/2010 - 6:24pm
Okay, so it's fall, the wind is blowing, the air is cool, the trees are dying and it's time to snuggle in with your significant other to watch a movie. You're the horror fan (obviously, since you MORE
10/08/2010 - 4:00pm
I was geeking out on horror with my pal Jenn this week when she posited that there’s something extra special about horror films that are set back east during the fall or winter. Call it a Halloween MORE
09/28/2010 - 9:36pm
Hags have always scared me. Hags and witches are my go-to scare-the-shit-out-of-me monsters. But until this weekend, I never thought much about why they're scary to me.
And then one of the fans of my films MORE
09/10/2010 - 6:44pm
Fear’s a funny thing. I mean, here’s an evolutionary survival tool that we, in the comfort of our modern, civilized world, now play with like an old tin toy, passed down from our ancestors. We don MORE
09/07/2010 - 1:56pm
Somewhere in New York City a giant green glowing skeleton launched in the faces of a movie theatre chock full of screaming, laughing horror fans. And I'd be remiss in my treatment of your horror education MORE
08/26/2010 - 3:05pm
Why Horror?” they ask us.
“I dunno why?” we respond, hands in pockets, arms stiff, “ I just like it," we say, tired of the question.
Sound familiar? Yeah, thought so. My relatives 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