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.
06/11/2010 - 4:47pm
Horror's been around for a long time.
"How long Drew?"
Well I'm glad you asked! As a matter of fact, the oldest known story, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh is chock-full of scary shit. 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
05/27/2010 - 8:34pm
Comfort food. Everyone's got it. It's that one thing that you can eat that takes you right back to all the warm fuzzy places where it's fun to retreat whenever the world decides to use you for a MORE
05/19/2010 - 6:09pm
Villains and horror. No other genre of film depends on the antagonist as an engine more than horror. In most cases, the villain is so pivotal to the story that the whole movie depends on us loving, hating and MORE
05/05/2010 - 5:01pm
Horror may not be dead, but it's not as healthy as it oughta be. On Wednesday, I offered three prescriptions for curing what ails it. Here are four more.4) Stop casting Oscar winners in horror films JUST to show MORE
05/05/2010 - 4:28pm
Lately I'm hearing people saying horror is dead. Of course people are ALWAYS saying horror is dead. And it's always the same kind of people. Stupid ones.
That's like saying comedy is dead. Comedy is laughter and MORE
04/22/2010 - 9:03pm
Welcome to class. Today we're going to dig into the ancient forbidden horror tome known as... THE TV GUIDE!Okay, so let’s talk TV and horror, shall we? When it comes to TV icons, science fiction has Star Trek MORE