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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Something dark had brought the imagination out from its shallow grave, something real, something from Amazon....
From my experience of reading other script writing books (although not niche ones like this) they can be rather unaccessable and a slight struggle to read, this one on the other hand was a breeze.
It is not ground breaking, nor is it exhaustive but it opens the door to those first pages or first draft. It gets the ball rolling and opens the door to inspiration, I think for first time writers (not just to horror) it is a perfect book to walk you through those first steps.
Well written and easy to read a great tool for a beginner.
From my experience of reading other script writing books (although not niche ones like this) they can be rather unaccessable and a slight struggle to read, this one on the other hand was a breeze.
It is not ground breaking, nor is it exhaustive but it opens the door to those first pages or first draft. It gets the ball rolling and opens the door to inspiration, I think for first time writers (not just to horror) it is a perfect book to walk you through those first steps.
Well written and easy to read a great tool for a beginner.
Format:Paperback
I was looking forward to some insights into the craft of screenwriting specifically in the horror genre. It is a very specific genre and I thought it deserved some study of its conventions and how to adhere to them or even break them. So I bought this book (Horror Screenwriting - The Nature of Fear). Do not be misled; this is not a book about horror screenwriting as such, and barely qualifies as a book about screenwriting at all. It literally leaves you hanging half way through its supposed coaching of you writing your own horror script, and half way through the writing of his own script in the book.
Don't get me wrong, the man appears to be able to write a screenplay (at least to page 50), but his coaching is naive and frustrating. He writes a screenplay with you, wasting pages of his none-too-substantial book in this none-too-subtle way, and then spends another third of the book explaining what he's written in prose. That leaves about a third of the book to giving you tips on how to write specifically for horror, right? Wrong. You could write this guy's tips in a couple of pages, and they won't be specifically for horror screenplays either, most of them.
I was so dissappointed in this book. I paid over £[] for the book, hoping its 157 pages would be full of gems of insight on horror structure, tricks of the trade and possibly with some insight into the development of one or two horrors I had seen (or could get). But no. I should have researched the writer first, but I didn't. The one thing I realised after reading this book is that I really hadn't learnt anything from it. And if you have read any decent books on screenwriting (Lew Hunter - Screenwriting; Syd Field - Screenplay; Christopher Vogler - The Writer's Journey) then you can certainly give this half-written book a miss.
Don't get me wrong, the man appears to be able to write a screenplay (at least to page 50), but his coaching is naive and frustrating. He writes a screenplay with you, wasting pages of his none-too-substantial book in this none-too-subtle way, and then spends another third of the book explaining what he's written in prose. That leaves about a third of the book to giving you tips on how to write specifically for horror, right? Wrong. You could write this guy's tips in a couple of pages, and they won't be specifically for horror screenplays either, most of them.
I was so dissappointed in this book. I paid over £[] for the book, hoping its 157 pages would be full of gems of insight on horror structure, tricks of the trade and possibly with some insight into the development of one or two horrors I had seen (or could get). But no. I should have researched the writer first, but I didn't. The one thing I realised after reading this book is that I really hadn't learnt anything from it. And if you have read any decent books on screenwriting (Lew Hunter - Screenwriting; Syd Field - Screenplay; Christopher Vogler - The Writer's Journey) then you can certainly give this half-written book a miss.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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11 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
Turn to any page and you'll find information that's appeared in any of dozens of other screenwriting books. This book lacks depth; and what little there is, is well padded with a lot of generalities, filler, and script format pages. My copy weighs in at 167 pages, plus ads; not the 232 pages listed above. The beginning of the book with a history of horror elevated it from one star to two, but after that section it fails in both horror and screenwriting instruction. It has a hefty retail cover price of $24.95, even with Amazon's generous discount it's still overpriced.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Very little pertaining to horror screenwriting, save your money
10 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I own this book, along with about a hundred other books on screenwriting. I was hoping this book would offer insight and guidance and discussion on screenwriting specific to horror, but I was sorely disappointed. This book offers little beyond a basic guide to screenwriting in general. There are concepts unique to horror screenwriting, and this book does not address them. Save your money.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Possibly the worst Screenplay Book ever
19 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback
As a professional I continue to use many resources and script books. Some I've used since i was a beginniner. Others I've found along the way. This book is truly awful. The publisher and author should be embarassed. The largest portion of the book is the author's very bad screenplay. Why reading his medioocre writing is thought to help the rest of us I have no idea. I was particularly disappointed because this publisher can usually be trusted to produce truly useful and quality books. But seriously DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Unless you really want great advice like, 'Ignore the 3 act structure'!!!
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