So there is a movie called Holy Shit! (Ach du Scheisse!) and it is a comedy-mystery thriller that takes place in a porta-potty. Sounds completely ridiculous and full of crappy jokes right? It is sure to be full of nothing but low-hanging fruit poop jokes and hardly anything else of substance. Well, hold on to [...]

Everyone likes to daydream strange scenarios whether they are bored at work, in the car, or just zoning out at home. It could be dreaming about what you did if you won the lottery, what it would be like to be a celebrity, or maybe thoughts of having superpowers. Director Riley Stearns on the other [...]

Anxiety, for the many people that experience it, is a disorder that is hard to explain let alone capture on film. In a thriller, the audience can be put on the edge of their seats with stressful situations and high stakes, but anxiety is a different beast entirely. It is a boiling below the surface [...]

There is a real problem in Hollywood that is films that are created by committees, where instead of an artistic vision they ape off what is popular without understanding why. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some new directors don't have a clear vision so they substitute things from other films they enjoy to [...]

Subtle horror is the subgenre that can haunt the adults in the audience in the same way that outward horror movies scare the young and inexperienced. The difficulties with these films though is with little happening the audience needs to be given something to keep their interest. This can be characters or an interesting location [...]

Within the genre, horror has always reveled in revealing the uncomfortable truths to its audience and unexpecting first timers. If horror has always been built on a foundation of shocking and horrifying the viewers, few things do that as effectively as the reality of the world. Sometimes this can be through the minimal realities that [...]

A storytelling technique that has become increasingly more popular in the last few decades that is often used in artier films is breaking your film into sections or chapters. These can be used to show a simple passage of time or to give a thematic tone to the next scene, something for the audience to [...]