Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets

Gregory Lamberson

McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, Oct 16, 2008 - Performing Arts - 292 pages

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.

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
• Author: Gregory Lamberson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2008
• ISBN: 0786437065, 9780786437061
• Length: 292 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / General; Reference / General