Horror movie 101- when walking down a dark corridor thinking the distant noise is your lost friend, you’re allowed to call out their name once maybe twice. If they don’t answer, you stop calling! You don’t get louder! The people in Chernobyl Diaries kept following noises and shouting even after they knew something was trying…
This is the type of horror I love! It’s subtle- more focused on atmosphere and characters. The Woman in Black is like literary horror on the big screen. I could almost imagine how a classic horror author would write every scene and how beautiful and chilling each description would be. I love horror that makes you think.The movie…
Paranormal Activity 3 sure knows how to make people jump. As someone who has been reading and writing horror and dark fiction since they were a kid, I will admit- I jumped, a lot. I wouldn’t call it scary but I’m not a good judge of what is or isn’t scary. I did enjoy myself…
As both a Harry Potter and horror movie fan, I had to share this. I learned about this movie through MuggleNet. “A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client’s papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance” (IMDb) This is exactly the type of…
Here are some books that helped me when I was first learning to write. I’m not including novels because the list would be ridiculous. I prefer books focusing on a specific aspect of writing- plot, character, setting and so on. I don’t use general how-to-write books. If you want to know how to writer a…
I’ve loved horror most of my life so why are most of my favorites on Goodreads fantasy? Don’t worry, they’re still dark. But why the change? I’ve sampled other genres but horror was always my favorite. Years ago I didn’t even like fantasy. When I was doing research on the characteristic of a horror novel,…
Dark cities, vampires, vampire killers, epic fight scenes. How could I not treat myself to Priest? It sounds like something I’d write- minus vampire and add creature of my making. But like Resident Evil: Afterlife, I saw it seeking only to be entertained- my expectations weren’t high. So plot, the movie portrayed a world after…
