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Interview with Megan Lynn, Star of Deadly Presence

How long have you worked in the film industry? What was your first experience making a movie like? I have been wanting to make movies for as long as I can remember.  Whether or not I’d be any good at it never really mattered, I just always knew it was something I would do.  Deadly […]

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Interview with Shane Cole of Masked Films

In addition to directing, you were also a writer on Deadly Presence. Is it important that you direct the projects you write? Would it be difficult watching a film that somebody else directed?   I would Direct other projects if brought to me, that’s not an issue. I only wrote this because I wanted to […]

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13 Questions with Richard Johnson

    How long have you been writing for? I started writing when I was in first grade. We had a project and the blank booklet I got was covered in butterflies of all things. So my book was titled Attack of the Butterfly People, and featured my school being torn apart by bloodthirsty insects. […]

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13 Questions with Charity Langley

  How long have you been writing for? Forever… well, at least since I could hold a crayon. My elementary school librarian was so impressed with my stories she would bind them for me. They were only a few pages long, written and illustrated on college ruled notebook paper but adding that slim plastic rung […]

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13 Questions with Anne Michaud

How long have you been writing for? Since my Master’s in screenwriting, about 8 years ago. It started with scripts, obviously, but then I wrote a short story and preferred to hold the complete control over the finished piece. Oh, and then I started writing novels and I was gone for good. No more making […]

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Humble Beginnings: An Aspiring Author on Writing Horror By Kira Butler

  My mother always wanted me to like nice things. Barbies, for example (which I did, until I stumbled into adolescence and realized that I could string together Barbie’s severed heads and wear them as a necklace; much like the destroyer-goddess Kali Ma — the knots in the synthetic hair binding together each smiling face.) […]

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The Zombie Story Checklist

Despite the relative young age of the website, I have received more Zombie stories than anything else. I have unfortunately not accepted any of them because of how generic they were. I appreciated how hard the authors worked on their stories, and there were some very interesting parts in them, but Zombies in general are […]

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The DOs and DON’Ts of Horror Filmmaking – By Danielle Deering

As a loyal, long-time horror movie enthusiast, I felt that I possessed the appropriate authority to submit these demands to todays (and tomorrow’s) horror movie makers. Now before you read any further, let me first acknowledge the mavericks out there like Ti West, James Wan, Leigh Whannell and the folks at Night Walker cinema who […]

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From Horror Beginnings by Jack Kain

  My entrance into the world of Horror films officially began with a child and a dream. The dream was about a man with a burnt face and knives for fingers who stalked his victims in their sleep. The child was named Tina and it was her death scene that ushered me into a world […]

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Making of a Horror Fan – Danica Deering

Lions, Tigers and Bears (oh my), Things that go bump in the night, the Monster under the bed… I’ve often wondered: what is it about me that CRAVES horror, and relishes the opportunity to get scared out of my mind? Is there a “profile” of a horror movie fan? And what is it that truly […]