★ Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
Their Vampires Are Hotter than Our Vampires
American movies seem to have lost their edge in originality, deviant sex, and general weirdness. The conglomeratization of Hollywood, with…
Genius Squared
Incidentally, to me, David Simon (Homicide, The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme) chose the film and hosted the screening. He did…
Dramaticus Excessivus Pt. 2
Screenwriting Expo 2010 is coming up in Los Angels, October 7-10. The hundreds of attendees will spend a lot of…
Dramaticus Excessivus
Part 1 of 2 Once the esoteric domain of autodidacts and a handful of film schools, enhanced by ancient dramaturgical…
The WTF Effect
Whether you edit in a primitive cave or in a technological cloud, the results are magic. Filmmakers figured this…
The Other Secret
If you’re a writer, or shooting some kind of film, or employed, you probably don’t have time to tend your…
Thirty-Six Dead in Catonsville
The body count is high, but still an estimate, because it’s only the first week of shooting. The final count…
Lucky13
Any weekend you spend out in a remote cornfield in the pouring rain with a baker’s dozen of crazy people…
Murphy’s Second Law of Serendipity
The victim was found in a deep, unfilled grave in a cornfield about twenty miles northeast of Baltimore. But she…
Fall in the House of Usher
You’ve had that dream where you’re wandering through a familiar house and discover a room you never realized existed. You…
Rapacious Sex
How are we going to handle the sex? Movies can never be the same as the books they are based…
Get a Grip on Yourself
Q: How do you make a really, really independent (and scary) movie that is audience-worthy and marketable? A: Create…
The Lost City
We turn off a twisting highway onto an unmarked road narrowed by the encroaching jungle. My guide is a teenage…
The Frumious Bandersnatch
At precisely ten a.m., the first five subjects enter the dark, featureless, space. They sit in chairs backed against a…
The Chopper in the Rye
A madman moves through a cornfield at dusk. Lightning flashes every five or ten seconds. The six-inch high corn bends…
Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
Contributor David Warfield is a filmmaker and screenwriter (WGAW). He is currently planning an indie feature film for production in…
