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Question: How do you feel fiction-writing and screen-writing compare? Gothic.net’s Panel of Experts weight in on the ways fiction-writing and screenwriting compare. Some of our experts feel writing fiction allows for more intricate character development and internal monologues, while writing for the screen requires a tighter focus on action and dialogue. Some find that writing for film or television requires more collaboration with directors, producers, and actors, while writing a novel or short story allows for more solitary creativity. Some find it all comes down […]
February 24th, 2023 | Filed under Headline,Professional | Read More »
Question: If you had to label your work, what genre tag would you put on the bulk of it? Horror and dark fiction/art seem to be the two big winners here, in terms of how we would label our work, if we had to label our work. Many of us balk at having to label, however, and many of us feel like what we do is specific and not just generally horror when that genre label has such wide-ranging definition. Some popular additional categorizations include […]
September 17th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Professional | Read More »
Question: What are your favorite monsters and what specifically appeals to you about them? A lot of us love the classic Universal monsters and could not choose just one. Some of us most fear the monsters we recognize the best for our worst impulses — murderers, serial killers, angry and sad people. Some of us most enjoy the monsters we see some positive qualities of ourselves in — vampires and werewolves and dragons we might love or tame. This perhaps means that some of us […]
April 3rd, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Movies,Professional | Read More »
Question: What was the first movie or book or television show that scared you? We are a motley bunch with both some pretty disparate and even shocking influences and some very real commonalities. Some of the answers here are eye-openingly unique and some are horror classics. Given that the question is about the first media which scared us, it is no surprise that some children’s fare made the list of our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Probably to be expected that the Wizard of Oz was […]
May 18th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Dark TV,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
Question: What 2010 horror releases (film or book) did you find most notable? The results are in from our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Literary horror culture is aware of history and how literature, in whatever medium, builds upon what came before. So a lot of us spent 2010 catching up on releases from prior years or re-watching and re-reading classics. It makes sense then that many of the major motion picture releases of 2010 were remakes, riffs, and sequels. We liked The Crazies, starring Timothy […]
February 15th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Dark TV,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
Thomas M. Sipos was born in Queens, NY, graduated from New York University’s film school, and eventually moved to Los Angeles. He studied writing at UCLA Extension, where he also taught a course. Thomas M. Sipos is primarily an author. But he is also an actor (almost mandatory if you live in Los Angeles County), and a film festival founder and director. In addition to writing, he founded and manages the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest and festival. Thomas M. Sipos has studied comedy […]
February 11th, 2011 | Filed under Who's Who | Read More »
