Tag: Nightmare Cinema
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Fantasia Film Festival & Nightmare Cinema
This summer, Nightmare Cinema will have its long anticipated premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. I’ll be posting more about this prestigious unveiling in the days ahead, but — for now — here’s a brief description from the Festival’s Facebook page: Five Forces of Fear Come Together for A Terrifying Dose of…
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Don’t Sleep: Nightmares are coming!
They enter the Rialto only to have their darkest fears brought to life by The Projectionist – a ghostly figure who holds the horrifying futures of all who attend his screenings. And by the time the viewers realize the truth, escape is no longer an option. For once the ticket is torn, all fates are sealed.…
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Yesterday Today:
SF’s Roots on View at Milford FestivalMy previous post concluded with mention of the grand finale at this year’s Milford Readers and Writers Festival and the promise of a follow up post. Here, then, are some of the talking points from our three-hour program at the Milford Theatre, a conversation that considered how science fiction came of age in Milford during the…
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Bi-Coastal Weekend: Stories & Nightmares
Writers do most their traveling at home. It’s inward travel, exploring memory and imagination in the creation of stories that might one day enter the real world as published stuff. But sometimes the draw of outside events cuts through the reverie, and that’s the way it was last weekend when I had writing-related gigs popping on…
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From Page to Screen:
Talking about Writing @ The PenguinIt all began with Robert A. Heinlein. Back in the 1940s, Heinlein gave what may well be the best writing advice ever given, a five step approach to achieving success as a spinner of tales. And last week at The Penguin Bookshop, an attentive crowd joined me in a consideration of those rules and how they apply…