Horror Writing Horror
by ryan on Friday, June 25, 2010 in Newsletter Archive • (0) Comments • Permalink
Check out this interesting blog post from the ScriptJournal Blog on writing horror screenplays. Author Ben Magid entered the entertainment industry in 2006 with the sale of PAN to New Line Cinema, a revisionist take on Peter Pan that garnered mention on the Black List. He went on to write HACK/SLASH for Rogue Pictures, scheduled to shoot early 2010.
"Here's an odd conundrum that applies to writing horror scripts: oftentimes, what reads scary on the page doesn't play scary on the screen, and vice versa. It's an odd effect, and most producers and execs don't grasp this. Horror is very much about mood and tone and how well a director can shoot the story."
