Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1087758 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 292 pages

Review
"It's the best book on filmmaking I've ever read"-Desmon Reddick, --Dread Media

Thinking of making an Indie horror movie (or any genre of movie for that matter)? Read this book. Lamberson has fought in the trenches for over two decades. This book's the Real Deal: written by someone who knows the truth. A must-read for any prospective filmmaker."-Philip Nutman --Author/film journalist/co-screenwriter/associate producer Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

Wanna make a movie? This A to Z essential tome is the new filmmakers' bible. Forget the others, they are already outdated. Both inspirational and bitter sweet, this book gives you the hard line on what it takes to make a successful go at being a filmmaker in the new age. Lamberson lays out the mechanics for any budding filmmaker seriously intent on making a critical dent, and maybe even a buck, creating their opus."-Debbie Rochon --Fangoria Radio Host and Cult Movie Actress

Thinking of making an Indie horror movie (or any genre of movie for that matter)? Read this book. Lamberson has fought in the trenches for over two decades. This book's the Real Deal: written by someone who knows the truth. A must-read for any prospective filmmaker."-Philip Nutman --Author/film journalist/co-screenwriter/associate producer Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

Wanna make a movie? This A to Z essential tome is the new filmmakers' bible. Forget the others, they are already outdated. Both inspirational and bitter sweet, this book gives you the hard line on what it takes to make a successful go at being a filmmaker in the new age. Lamberson lays out the mechanics for any budding filmmaker seriously intent on making a critical dent, and maybe even a buck, creating their opus."-Debbie Rochon --Fangoria Radio Host and Cult Movie Actress

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.

Customer Reviews

Great Book! Essential!
Cheap Scares! is a must read to anyone attempting to make an independent film or anyone that has an interest in independent filmmaking.

There is more helpful advice squeezed in these pages than you could ever imagine, and it's highly entertaining! This book is filled with unique tales of triumph and tragedy from the most successful and most struggling indie filmmakers out there. It really runs the gamut and I felt I learned something from each chapter.

Mr. Lamberson brilliantly spreads these interviews throughout the book with every other chapter being advice directly from him starting with Development all the way through Marketing and Distribution.

If you ever want attempt to make a movie, or like me, want to go into your next film with more insight into the current indie market this book is absolutely essential. I couldn't put it down.

Byron

Saves me the trouble...
I am about halfway through Cheap Scares right now.

This book is going to save me from making mistakes that I KNOW I would have made had I not read about somebody else making them first.

The book covers everything from scripts to entertainment law and is full of examples and interviews from people who have been there (and some of them are STILL there).

Lamberson has an easy to read, conversational style that makes this book an entertaining, as well as an informative, read.

I think Cheap Scares needs to be on the shelf of any independent film maker.