It’s time once again for your weekly creepy thing. Now I know all the newfangled moviemaking technology and CGI wizardry can deliver some pretty frightening stuff, but I dearly love the old movies and the vampire played by Max Schreck in the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu is so absolutely creepy he still stands up after all these years.
Speaking of which, here’s a film clip of him doing just that – standing up. (I love this bit.)… Continue reading
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Here’s something creepy for this week. At our house we’ve finished reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and watched the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, so Orcs have been on my mind recently. They were bad enough in the LOTR movies…
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This week’s item of creepiness is the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia. Now the music by Mussorgsky is pretty dramatically frightening all by itself, so adding a host of demons to the top of said mountain just adds to the scariness.
Happy Monday, busy writers! A new week begins like a fresh new notebook full of blank pages – pages that can inspire either eagerness or terror in a poor writer’s heart. Here’s a starter for you today, another movie still prompt.
Introductions at a party – put some outrageous dialogue to this picture:
In case you’re wondering, this is a scene from All About Eve, from the famous party scene in which Bette Davis intones “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
(And yes, that is Marilyn Monroe, pre-superstardom, in a bit part)
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A writing prompt for a spring-ish Monday. (Here at least.)
Write some dialogue and the what-happens-next for this scene:
(photo from the movie Arsenic and Old Lace)
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Here’s a Monday morning Writing Prompt for you. The only thing better than the craziness of this photo is the name of the movie it comes from: Voodoo Man (1944).
Looks like a seance to me. Who are all these people? And what happens next?
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Okay so I disappeared last week because of snow and related difficulties (no power, no internet), and coincidentally my website disappeared too! I’ve just got it back up again, not sure how many days it was missing in action, sorry about that everyone!
As I write I can hear the sound of rain and dripping all around, and there was just a big rumble as snow fell off one side of my roof, so hopefully we’re on the seasonal upswing now. (Firmly knocking on wood.)
And since it is Monday I’d like to give you a Writing Prompt to start your week off right. It’s another old movie still – take a close look. Who are these people, what are their names, personalities? What’s their relationship to one another? Now write them some snappy dialogue…
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Hi there, just a quick Monday writing prompt.
What’s going on here? Who are these people? What are they up to?
(If you’re stuck, first think of the most likely scenario, then think up the least likely scenario.)
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If I asked you to make a sound that matched the word “eerie”, chances are good that you’d start mimicking theremin music.
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Here’s a good idea for a writing prompt – look up photos of scenes from old movies, and fill in the blanks. What’s happening here? What’s the backstory? What happens next?
Write some dialogue for this scene…
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