Showing posts with label twist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twist. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Vocational Horror: The Tools of Its Trade

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   A device often used to generate plots is to imagine a vocational role that, given a dark twist, produce...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Knowing Your Endgame

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Flash fiction works well for horror. We have the word from both Edgar Allan Poe, who said that...
Friday, March 8, 2019

The "Twist" That Sells

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman A selection of horror movies from several decades reveals the usual suspects among villains: a ...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Characters + Twist = Outcome

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman It's possible to analyze the plot dynamics of horror fiction, whether a particular narrative or...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

News You Can Use

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Newspapers may or may not be dying, but, until they do (if they do), one of them, USA Today , as I h...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Learning from the Masters: M. Night Shyamalan

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman  One hates to beat a dead horse, but M. Night Shyamalan isn’t dead--not yet, not quite: people...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The Others: A Masterpiece of Situational Irony

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman The Others is a virtually perfect exercise in horror by way of situational irony. The viewer is led to be...