This video from the Now You See It account gets into the mechanics of the precise timing, cutting and framing it takes to create truly effective scares in horror movies by comparing two versions of the same scene from Lights Out: staged first in the short film, then in the recent feature film expanded from it.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 30, 2016Eric Heisserer bristles at the label of horror movie screenwriter. It’s understandable. While his produced credits include a Final Destination sequel and the remakes of The Thing and A Nightmare on Elm Street, Heisserer points out that he has authored 56 feature film scripts and only eight of them have been in the horror genre. That connotation may change later this year when Heisserer’s screenplay for the sci-fi film Arrival hits screens from Prisoners and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve. But for now Heisserer and I are talking about Lights Out, a new horror offering based on director David F. Sandberg’s […]
by Matt Mulcahey on Jul 27, 2016