Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets

by Gregory Lamberson

This is a step-by-step guide to creating and selling a horror movie, from rough outline to film distribution, with an emphasis on storytelling and marketing. Chapters cover screenwriting, freelancing as a writer, collaborating, budgeting and pitching projects to industry decision-makers. Interviews with J.B. Bookwalter, Roy Frumkes, Larry Fessenden, Scooter McRae, Brett Piper and others all convey today's realities. Production stills, sample screenplay...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786437065
• ISBN13: 9780786437061
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher