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Horror Diary: Hackneyed Horror
I just finished watching Joe Lynch’s third-rate snoozer WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END (2007). Why did I wait so long? Because I knew it would be a pathetic, tongue-in-cheek romp without redeeming value. Then again, that’s all Lynch churns out as if he’s a new Ed Wood – though Wood had class. The only good…
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Crash Reports: Hard-up for Halloween Horrors?
Halloween is so close you can smell the dead and taste the candy corn. But as you can see from your cable stations, quality horror on the small screen is few and far between. However, if you’re in the mood, I’ve watched nearly 1,400 horrors and have compiled a short list of the best. Granted,…
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Crash Report: Movie Making Motivation
On Friday night, March 30, I entered the New Jersey Film School in Martinsville, New Jersey and met with my dear friend, Chris Messineo. An award winning screenwriter and filmmaker, he established this school but a few years before (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1980129/). His body of shorts include the endearing BRANCHES, the intriguing ONE SAVED MESSAGE and the though-provoking…
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Crash Report: Why the hell are you making a short horror film?
No choice. Dammit. In 2008, my vampire horror/action script RED AGENDA won First Place at the International Horror and Sci-fi Film Festival in Phoenix (http://www.horrorscifi.com/). Afterwards, thanks to the festival’s promoters, producers contacted me like crazy. One even reached me through my Kutztown University email because he was at Sundance and had heard it was…
