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.
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
07/22/2010 - 3:12am
Okay, with all the buzz about Comic-Con this week in San Diego, (I'm packing MORE
07/16/2010 - 1:55pm
Okay, so last week I talked about this spec script I'm going out with to all the studios. It's a creepy, dread-oriented ghost story as opposed to a gore or spectacle-filled kill fest.
(Don't get me MORE
07/09/2010 - 9:22pm
Here's a funny thing. Next week, my agent and I are going out with a spec script to the studios, so we had some producer friends get "coverage" on it for us. Now, if you know what a spec script MORE
07/01/2010 - 8:21pm
I wiped some blood off the sink the other day, (don't worry, it was my own blood, and it was from shaving), and for some reason, I was amazed at how easily it just wiped away. It got me to thinking about MORE
06/23/2010 - 6:19pm
The rotting mansion, the ruined castle, the abandoned hospital...why are decrepit, deserted, man-made places so interesting? Why is it that almost all horror, be it literature or film, takes place in broken, MORE
06/17/2010 - 12:24pm
Okay, so you're a horror fan. Have been all your life. In your teens you were at the opening of every scary film and you lived in the horror section of the video store. Your walls were lined with posters of MORE
06/16/2010 - 4:26pm
With all this talk of Father's Day this Sunday, I got to thinking about my own dad. He's no longer with us, God rest his soul, but while he inhabited the material plane, he sure gave me some great MORE