Starting a horror script and was wondering if anyone can recommend a couple of great horror scripts to check out. I have favourite horror movies but I wanted to read some great SCRIPTS. Any ideas?
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Brian Lajeunesse www.scriptreaderpro.com/horror-scripts
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Hi Brian, try some Steven King stories, the Mist and Pet Semetary
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Aliens is a good one to read. When looking at horror it is good to see how the action builds and releases tension to create the horror.
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Dan, I like that recommendation. Not my genre but I'm going to check it out.
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I have yet to read the Silence of the Lambs script, but that one might be a good one to try
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Brian, have you read, "The Sixth Sense"?
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Silence of the Lambs is an amazing script. While more of a social horror, Get Out is also a fairly strong script.
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Hi Brian there's a webinar on demand by David Ian McKendry that's pretty interesting here https://www.stage32.com/webinars/How-to-Master-Story-Structure-for-your-... (I still need to watch the second one he made about writing a flawless horror script)
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Maybe read two very different ones like The Shining and Cabin in the Woods and see where yours lands. There's an amazing documentary called The Killing of America that would give you a lot of ideas. Though be careful, it is a lot to take in. There's a story in there about a guy turned down for a loan so he takes the bank manager hostage for three days, with a shotgun strapped to himself and the guys neck. That's tension.
I can't write horror, gives me a belly ache. I had one idea of the birth of teen horror, where it came from, just turned on its head. The monsters are the jock, the cheerleader, the nerd, the stoner. Then Babysitter came out :|
Best of luck to you Brian.