This week I finally joined the quietly popular social app, Clubhouse. What is that, you ask? Clubhouse is an iPhone only app currently in beta testing that allows users all over the world to come together in what they call “rooms” and discuss a topic...

Some of us have done it and others are waiting. Most of us want to do it, but damn this quarantine. Yes, I am indeed talking about… Sex. What does this have to do with horror, you ask? Well…everything! Sex has been a long-used device in horror and ar...

A few months ago I attended a Zoom panel with Jason Blum (Blumhouse) where he answered questions from horror fans. One of those questions that caught my ear was from a young man who wanted to know if every story had already been told, and if there wa...

What makes the ultimate final girl? As you sit down to outline your horror, you may be asking yourself this same question and the answer is actually really simple. But before we deep dive into the makings of the next Sidney Prescott, let’s take a qui...

The best part about writing this column is meeting and interviewing some amazingly talented and genuinely nice artists; and writer-director-producer Will Wernick is no exception. Even over the phone, Wernick, 38, exudes such a calming cadence and fri...

The year is 1999 and The Sixth Sense was just released. Everyone, including nine-year-old me, is talking about that shocking twist ending. Bruce Willis is a ghost? Who saw that coming? Who could ever top that? Well, you could! The twist ending has be...

To paraphrase my good friend, writer-director Jeff Howard, during our recent virtual interview, horror and comedy are twins separated in the womb. They both rely on tension and release. Never have truer words been spoken. No wonder they pay him the b...

So, you want to write a horror film with Black characters but you’re not Black? How do you do that without making them flat and stereotypical, and above all, without being racist? It’s probably easier than you think. To figure out how to do it better...