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.
01/10/2013 - 3:00pm
With all the shooting tragedies that have occurred this past year, there’s been a lot of finger pointing going on in our culture. To a degree, that’s healthy. When something that horrible happens we MORE
10/17/2012 - 4:00pm
An interesting thing happened to horror films over the past 10 years when no one was looking.
They became more horrific.
Now, I don’t mean in they’re necessarily scarier than films prior to the MORE
10/01/2012 - 5:00pm
It’s happening. The rush. The feeding frenzy. The race to capitolize. It’s a business thing, not a creative thing, but since film is a creative industry driven by business, creative is being driven by MORE
09/20/2012 - 8:31pm
Time to talk about real life fear this week. I talk about fear all the time, but it’s almost always been in the context of entertainment and pop culture. What scares us when we’re reading a novel? MORE
08/29/2012 - 2:00pm
The concept of the horror film is to convey as much terror in 90 minutes or so as humanly possible. And seeing as 90 minutes really isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, horror writers MORE
08/17/2012 - 11:00am
The end is near.
No really. It is.
And we’ll be enjoying the show from front row seats. It’s funny, the apocalypse is something that’s been fascinating us since we first stood up and MORE
08/10/2012 - 6:00pm
Where do we draw the line? It’s a question that comes up all the time with horror fans. At what point does our entertainment step over the line from being escapism and diversion into tastelessness, shock MORE
07/23/2012 - 3:00pm
Who was the best Horror filmmaker of the 1700’s? Francisco de Goya, that’s who.
When I was in college, years ago, my major study was screenwriting, but my minor was in art history. At the time I MORE