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.
07/12/2012 - 4:00pm
A friend recently posted on my facebook page that we need a great new horror villian. Someone like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger. Then they good-naturedly asked me to get on it. I laughed and MORE
06/22/2012 - 9:00am
You write a movie three times, as the saying goes. Once when you write the screenplay, once again when you shoot the film, and finally again in the editing room. And I'm not talking about actual screenplay MORE
06/15/2012 - 3:05pm
Meeting people in the horror community is a funny thing. Good, but funny. And I still maintain that my horror loving/creating friends are some of the kindest, coolest people I know.
The reason I'm thinking about MORE
05/02/2012 - 2:27pm
Ever watched a horror film and cocked your head at the antagonist, be it a ghost, a demon, or a maniac - and said to yourself, "That thing's just not scary." Of course you have. I think we all have.Horror is a MORE
04/19/2012 - 8:29pm
Writers keep journals of ideas. Artists keep sketch books of visual concepts. Musicians record hooks. And with the advent of quality digital video and broadband internet over the past 10 years, filmmakers can MORE
04/12/2012 - 12:10pm
Film is fashion. I'm not sure which filmmaker said it first, but many have said it since, and it's as true today as it's ever been. The look, the style, the pacing, the flow... it's all fashion. What was cool in MORE
04/02/2012 - 6:54pm
Just saw The Hunger Games last week and I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. I never read the books, so for me it was a purely cinematic experience. I wasn't sitting there taking notes on differences in the film and MORE
03/07/2012 - 2:54pm
Fun. Funny. Smart. Entertaining. Tongue-in-cheek. Quirky. Charming. Campy. A romp... A great night of TV... These are the words and phrases that have been buzzing around my head for 5 months, and thank GOD they' MORE