If you lost the person you love most in the world, would it be acceptable to simply disappear without any trace? If so, would it be an act of self-preservation? Or reckless self-sabotage? These are ...

Carrie has been around for over 50 years. Stephen King's first published novel became a classic horror movie, along with subsequent films, sequels, and reboots. Why remake it again? That's a question ...

When the Avengers assembled to face Thanos in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame, theaters erupted. Few scenes are as crowd-pleasing as the moment reinforcements arrive to save the day at the last ...

In "What to Expect in a General Meeting," I laid out what a general is: a professional introduction between a writer and ...

Alfred Hitchcock once described audiences experiencing a horror movie in a fascinating way. "The audience is like a giant organ that you and I are playing. At one moment we play this note, and get ...

When we talk about classic horror movies, we usually list the same titles year after year. Horror movies like The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s Halloween, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Shining, A ...

Thrillers are built on escalation. A great thriller should feel a lot like a great roller coaster ride. The experience isn’t one continuous drop at the same speed. There are climbs, falls, twists, ...

One of the most common questions about screenwriting format for beginners is how to format a phone conversation. It seems simple enough at first glance, but once you start writing scenes involving ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ihas hit the silver screen and inevitably will become one of the biggest and best movies of 2026. Whether the adaptation of one of two major epics attributed to Homer ...

When utilized for the right reasons, flashbacks can be one of the most powerful storytelling tools available to screenwriters. Flashbacks can reveal crucial backstory, deepen character motivations, ...

There's an old narrative principle, first developed by Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov, later referred to as Chekhov’s Gun. The principle came from a Chekhov quote that stated, ...