Chillers and Thrillers
is a blog on the theory and practice of writing horror fiction.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Writing Dramatic Scenes Using the Locomotion, or Motive Power, Technique
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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Movies have a distinct advantage over novels. The former dramatize, or show, the incidents of the ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Maritime Monster Menaces
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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Chrissie Watkins, about to meet her fate To make their characters more vulnerable, horro...
Monday, June 4, 2018
Making Every Word (or Image) Count
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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman The opening sequence of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) is well known to many moviegoers. Each mo...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Horror Film Structure: Some Thoughts, None Definitive
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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman “Analyses of film structure are never theory-neutral . . . . Once the analyst determines which of the ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Stock Situations Useful to Horror Fiction
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Copyright 2010 by Gary L.Pullman Oral storytellers invented stock situations--sets of circumstances that could be used over and over again, ...
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