Category: Features

Searchlight: Story Engineering

January 16, 2018
4 mins to read

Some writers have an innate ability to see the form of their stories instantly. They know the scope of the story, the characters, the plot points, where and when it takes place, when to begin the story, all those crazy twists and turns in the middle, and how to end the damn thing in a …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 Jan 2018

January 15, 2018
4 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: The Daily Beast reveals how Insidious has pushed the boundaries of horror Film School Rejects encourage a second viewing of the recent adaptation of IT Hulu sign a deal with Blumhouse …

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Look Out For … Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

January 11, 2018
2 mins to read

“Besides fostering the modern age of science-fiction, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic horror story, evoking powerful dynamics as we see creator become monster, and monster become human.” Cadavers fresh from the grave, cobbled together with stitches, a mad doctor creates an abomination in his hidden laboratory. Using science to reanimate lifeless tissue, Victor Frankenstein’s obsessions …

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Streaming Screams: Modern Television and the Cinematic Style

January 9, 2018
10 mins to read

We are in the Golden Age of television. There are more quality television shows running now than successful movies. Producers, directors, studios, and actors have noticed, shifting their creative focus to the glass box and away from the silver screen. Certainly, there are still great films being made, with a lot of the better films …