How to write a horror screenplay with 'a sense of dread' - Neal Marshall Stevens
BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright speaks with veteran horror screenwriter Neal Marshall Stevens about his new book A Sense of Dread: Getting Under the Skin of Horror Screenwriting.
- Just what is “The Sense of Dread” and how does it apply to the writing of horror movies?
- Our first fears are rooted in biology
- What are some examples of psychological fears and how can we make use of them in our writing?
- Fears based in culture
- The “Toolbox of Dread”
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Neal Marshall Stevens is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate School of Film and Television, he has been a working professional for over 30 years. He began his career as a writer and Creative Consultant/Story Editor for Laurel Entertainment’s syndicated Series, MONSTERS. He went on to work as Laurel’s Senior Story editor on such projects as THE VERNON JOHNS STORY and STEPHEN KING’S THE STAND.
Later, Neal went on to work for Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment, specializing in Direct-to-Video productions. Over the course of his association with Full Moon, he’s worked on over 40 motion pictures, including five entries in the popular PUPPETMASTER series. He also wrote and directed the feature, “STITCHES” for Full Moon Entertainment.
Among other projects, Neal sold the original screenplay DEADER to Dimension Pictures, which was later produced as HELLRAISER: DEADER, and wrote the screenplay for DARK CASTLE’s feature remake of THIRTEEN GHOSTS.
For the last seven years he has been teaching on-line for SCREENWRITERS UNIVERSITY and is also a professor in the David Lynch MFA Graduate Program in Screenwriting at the Maharishi University International.
