I watched and enjoyed this year's horror movie “Barbarian” awhile back. It starts off as the first AirBnB horror movie - or the first one I've seen, anyway.
It occurred to me that back when cell phones grew into common usage I wondered how horror fiction would deal with ...
Horror and Technology
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2022The Visuals of Fear
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 20, 2022
A creepy pov shot works very well if the camera is looking through a window, or trees, or some other barrier. So we the audience seem to be hiding from the characters on screen.
THE VISUALS OF FEAR
When the director Rob Reiner was going to direct the movie based ...
Being Confident in Your Work
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 8, 2022
Hah. Easier said than done, right?
Ask any artist about how much they like the stuff they make, and chances are you'll get a mixed bag of answers where most will be saying how they wish they'd done the stuff better. The anatomy isn't quite right, the ...
Yuppie Horror
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 6, 2022
the happy family with a tear/slash between them is the perfect visual for yuppie horror stories!
Yuppie Harra
This name for this category of horror is taken from the horror movie podcast, “With Gourley and Rust”, which I've been enjoying lately. I'm not sure if Gourley and ...
Quackcast 601 - /rant
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 20, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
If something affects or disturbs you so much that you want to respond to it through a story that you write, that can be a pretty powerful ...
CREATOR PROFILE: John Byrne
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2022
JOHN BYRNE
When I first became seriously interested in comics, John Byrne was at the top of my favorite artist list. He drew many of the classic “new” X-Men books, and was the artist on that series when it first became massively popular. The stories Byrne drew (and co-plotted along ...
Does Mechanization Turn Men into Robots or Robots into Men?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2022
Photo: “Fille Née Sans Mèr (translation ‘Girl Born without Mother’)”. Francis Picabia. 1917.
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” -Herbert George Wells
In one month’s time, I will be attending a lecture detailing the development of ...
Would You Hit a Girl?
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2022
So hitting a girl (or a woman) is extremely tropey. Regardless of how progressive your story is, a man hitting a woman runs a high risk of being considered lowly or less than heroic. That's because generally, women are considered weaker than men, thus an easy target. A woman ...
The Magic of Memory
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2022
There is a special power to the memory - especially to the memory of youth. Whether it's childhood, the teen years or maybe even young adulthood, it can have a powerful hold on us.
I guess it's the reason that some great stories get their resonance by the idea ...
Poetry Time 1: The Outer Silence
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 26, 2022
I’m pretty busy this week so I thought I’d just try out this idea I have for a new series of articles that I’ve chosen to name Poetry Time, where I will be sharing a poem I’ve written and see if it is to anyone's ...