Category: Writing
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Screenwriting Masterclass June 4th – Tickets Selling Fast!
If you’re hoping to join the one-day screenwriting workshop/masterclass on June 4th, you’d better get moving. This is a small-scale event, and tickets are limited. So, if you want to spend a day with like-minded souls in a jam-packed one-day crash course designed to take your writing to the next level then order a ticket RIGHT NOW! …
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NEW DATE! Screenwriting Workshop with Pat – 4th June 2016
On June 4th 2016, there’s another chance to spend the day doing screenwriting development exercises with Pat Higgins. At a yet-to-be-disclosed location in central Southend on Sea (sounds very mysterious!) this is a rare opportunity to work in a small group to hone your screenwriting skills in a fun and supportive environment. Click the image…
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Pitching to Joel Schumacher in a Lift
Screenwriters get introduced to the idea of the ‘elevator pitch’ with the following scenario: Imagine that you found yourself in a lift with a Hollywood power-player, and you only had that 60 seconds or so to sell them on the idea of your movie. 60 seconds to convince them that the idea might be worth…
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The Seed of an Idea
There’s a cliche that every creative in any industry will be constantly asked where they get their ideas from. I’ve heard a bunch of great responses, from specific store names to outright abuse, but I guess the reason that the question keeps getting asked is because the answer is never fully satisfying. Anywhere. Everywhere. I…
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Making The Devil’s Music – Part Two
This next thing follows this previous thing. Read the previous thing first. I’m not a guy who tends to approach the big subjects in life. I’m a guy who makes horror films. I have no background in investigative journalism, beyond that my uncle used to do restaurant reviews for the local paper. I didn’t set…
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Making The Devil’s Music – Part One
The first time I met Erika Spawn on the hottest day of the year in the summer of 2005. We were scheduled to shoot a video for her track Needles, which was third single from her second album, in a tiny green screen studio in the shittiest part of West London. Granted, Erika wasn’t a…
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The Elevator Pitch
My good friend Jim Eaves, (head honcho of Amber Pictures and one of my co-conspirators on the Death Tales movies), once got in a lift with Harvey Weinstein. It’s not something that happens particularly often to low-budget horror filmmakers in the UK. There isn’t a photo of Jim in a lift with Harvey Weinstein, so…
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Last Call for Werewolves, Cheerleaders & Chainsaws at Horror-on-Sea
We’re into the final week before Werewolves Cheerleaders and Chainsaws at the Horror-on-Sea festival. As I write these words there are still a handful of tickets left, which can be snatched up by just clicking the logo above. It’s a 90 min live event about low budget horror filmmaking, including all sorts of clips, anecdotes…
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Childhood Terrors: Of Scanners, Spider-Man and Teeny Todd
Had a lovely interview over at Southend Radio at the weekend. Most of it should apparently be available soon over at the Horror on Sea Facebook page. As I mentioned on air, the first time I ever went on the radio I was about seven or eight, and complaining about how much horror posters scared…
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Evil Apps
There’s a script called Evil Apps which, frankly, shouldn’t exist. As I write these words, the week before Christmas in 2012, I’ve already got two screenplays in fairly decent shape. They need a bit of a tweak here and there, granted, but my old friends House on the Witchpit and Chainsaw Fairytale are sitting cheerfully…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 