Tag: horror
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Chainsaw Fairytale Unleashed
I’m proud of my latest screenplay, CHAINSAW FAIRYTALE. It’s been in development a long time. Here’s the unusual bit, though. Usually, when I finish a screenplay I keep it close to my chest. Only a few, select people are able to read it. That’s not the case with CHAINSAW FAIRYTALE. As I conceived and wrote…
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Nazi Zombie Death Tales – Now Available to Rent/Buy on Prime Video
The second of our disreputable anthologies, Nazi Zombie Death Tales, has recently found its way back to streaming after several years in the second-hand-copies-on-physical-media-only wilderness. The flick was shot as Battlefield Death Tales (so please don’t go into it expecting hordes of nazi zombies; the title change was made at the request of a supermarket…
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Into 2025…
So, into another year already. Oh my God. We’ve changed the layout of this site a bit, as you may have noticed if you’ve been here before. A few scrappy bits of the old layout may remain; apologies if you notice them, we’ll get them sorted eventually! First big appointment of the new year is…
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Powertool Continues to Spread…
The movie has been out in the wild for a little while now. It’s been terrific to see the movie finding a happy and enthusiastic audience. Over on Twitter (no, it’s not called anything other than Twitter) there was a tweet-a-long organised by the wonderful Jeff Whitmire and Gill Wilson which was a joy to…
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The Promise (Your First Scene)
When I run Write a Movie in 30 Days, which is my travelling screenwriting seminar/workshop, I encourage writers to break their fledgling ideas down into 40 ‘Bits of Business’. I hesitate to use the word ‘scenes’ since people tend to take that very literally, and a bit of business might be three or four very…
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The Changing Face of Filmmaking
So, while I’m buried in the development for Chainsaw Fairytale (aka Fairytale Princesses vs the Horror Genre – I just CANNOT seem to decide between the two titles), the whole AI thing keeps rearing its head. Obviously. Let’s talk about the Virtual Filmmaking thing first. As Chainsaw Fairytale largely takes place in a fairytale/fantasy landscape…
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Chainsaw Fairytale Revisited
The script for Chainsaw Fairytale has a long and strange history. I’d been messing around with the vague concept (Fairytale Genre vs Horror Genre) for quite a while but never got all that far with it. A page or two of development work and script ideas here and there, not much else. Then I had…
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Powertool Cheerleaders is LIVE!
Two and a half years ago, I was giving up on the screenplay for Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead…
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Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead
Oh, it’s been a LONG time. Did you miss us? We’ve been horribly neglecting jinx.co.uk whilst we’ve been going about other projects. From live shows about screenwriting to writing books, the team at Jinx have been stupidly busy doing THINGS, but just not THESE THINGS. But we’re back. In a big, bad way. This year…
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Going Live
We’ve been looking at testing out live streaming for years, actually. One of our most treasured schemes way back in the day would have involved live streaming the entirety of principal photography for one of our movies, with four cameras set up in different areas that you could skip between. Always thought that would be…
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