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Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
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Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets Paperback - 2008

by Gregory Lamberson


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This is a step-by-step guide to creating and selling a horror movie, from rough outline to film distribution, with an emphasis on storytelling and marketing. Chapters cover screenwriting, freelancing as a writer, collaborating, budgeting and pitching projects to industry decision-makers. Interviews with J.B. Bookwalter, Roy Frumkes, Larry Fessenden, Scooter McRae, Brett Piper and others all convey today's realities. Production stills, sample screenplay pages, and sample budgets are included. Fully indexed.

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  • Title Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
  • Author Gregory Lamberson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC
  • Date 2008-12-01
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786437061 / 0786437065
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.7 in (24.89 x 17.53 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Applied/Practical
  • Library of Congress subjects Low budget films, Horror films - Production and direction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008037277
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2009, Page 281

About the author

Gregory Lamberson is a novelist and filmmaker specializing in horror entertainment. He wrote and directed the cult classic Slime City and worked as the production manager on I Was a Teenage Zombie and as Frank Henenlotter's assistant director on Brain Damage. He lives in Cheektowaga, New York.
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