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.
05/02/2013 - 5:00pm
“No, it’s NOT cool that the scene in your new movie is exactly like that one scene from your favorite film when you were a kid... “
I made a startling realization about myself this weekend as I MORE
04/19/2013 - 8:00pm
I get asked all the time how I’ve managed to put more horror in 2-4 minutes than many features manage in 90 minutes or more. I think, because I started out in long form (features and TV) and then MORE
04/11/2013 - 3:00pm
Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again.
In his case, he’d written an incendiary novel about his home town that enraged the locals who sent him menacing letters and death threats. In my MORE
03/08/2013 - 3:00pm
Who gives a fuck what you’re shooting it on!
As a writer and director, the single best reason to work in the horror genre is because it’s the only genre that can draw an audience without a star MORE
02/14/2013 - 8:00pm
I was just sitting by the hot tub at our apartment complex, texting a friend on a hot Los Angeles summer day. Sounds harmless enough, right? But that moment. That slice of time. That otherwise innocuous, MORE
02/04/2013 - 2:00pm
Writers are like everyone else. Doesn’t matter what genre they write in. And when it comes to working styles, even within the same genre (Horror, in my case), we’ve all got our habits and our MORE
01/25/2013 - 7:30pm
Fear has a twin, you know... a sister. She’s a fraternal twin, because the two are not identical, not by a long shot, but they are twins nonetheless. And these two sisters aren’t always present MORE
01/21/2013 - 4:00pm
The fear paradigm. That’s what I call it. It’s something all horror scholars know about through study, and what all members of the horror-movie-attending audiences know instinctively.
The Fear MORE