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.
09/28/2010 - 9:36pm
Hags have always scared me. Hags and witches are my go-to scare-the-shit-out-of-me monsters. But until this weekend, I never thought much about why they're scary to me.
And then one of the fans of my films MORE
09/16/2010 - 10:35pm
It's finally official. The web series I wrote and directed has found a home. Camera Obscura, 20 episodes of demon hunting horror, will be airing on October 1st on Dailymotion.com in conjunction with MORE
09/10/2010 - 6:44pm
Fear’s a funny thing. I mean, here’s an evolutionary survival tool that we, in the comfort of our modern, civilized world, now play with like an old tin toy, passed down from our ancestors. We don MORE
09/07/2010 - 1:56pm
Somewhere in New York City a giant green glowing skeleton launched in the faces of a movie theatre chock full of screaming, laughing horror fans. And I'd be remiss in my treatment of your horror education MORE
08/26/2010 - 3:05pm
Why Horror?” they ask us.
“I dunno why?” we respond, hands in pockets, arms stiff, “ I just like it," we say, tired of the question.
Sound familiar? Yeah, thought so. My relatives MORE
08/20/2010 - 9:33pm
I get emails msgs and tweets all the time asking me how I became so educated in horror cinema and especially the philosophy behind what scares people. Sadly the answer is not that I spent years in some faraway MORE
08/12/2010 - 9:58pm
I get a lot of email from young film makers and horror fans asking advice of all kinds. But recently I got one that rocked my world.All it said was "What do you want to be when you grow up?" in the body of the MORE
08/09/2010 - 4:26pm
Ever since I filmed Camera Obscura, my horror web series, last year at the ACTUALLY haunted Linda Vista Hospital in East L.A., I’ve been fascinated with real ghosts and haunted places. So much so, that I MORE