Insider screenwriting stories, plus occasional stuff on how to write a screenplay, by Phil Gladwin

So my friend, a grown woman and a hardened horror film goer, a connoisseur of gore, a genuine terror and torment addict, goes to see this movie and comes out so “thrilled” that for two nights afterwards she can’t sleep without the light on.

On the other hand, my teenage daughter goes with a gang of her friends, and I pick them up afterwards in the car expecting them all to be near catatonic with fear only to find them outbidding each other on who was the least scared by the thing.

I’m sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle, and has quite a lot with one’s willingness to indulge the movie makers.

Apart from the usual stuff about it being made for a couple of quid and generating millions, and just how inspirational that is, the one thing I read about the movie that interested me most was a comment in one of the national papers:

“It’s a movie made for a generation who won’t believe anything till they’ve seen it on film”.

Interesting. And scary if that really is the way we are going.

(Sadly, I’ll never know for sure, because I HATE those kind of films, so I won’t see it until 2020 when any chance of it having a real horror effect on my far-too-delicate psyche has long since evaporated…)

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