How To Horror Movie Guide Filmmaker’s Book of the Dead

Survive tight budgets, wardrobe malfunctions, alcoholic vampires, and more to create your own heart-racing horror film! “Danny Draven’s book, The Filmmaker’s Book of the Dead How to Make Your Own Heart-Racing Horror Movie is a terrific new ‘How To’ for aspiring indie horror filmmakers. In fact, there’s a ton of great information packed inside making it a great go-to reference for anyone involved with indie production, not just horror. If you want to learn how to make a horror movie without enrolling in film school, this book is where your journey should start!” -Todd Debreceni, Makeup Effects Artist/Designer, Author of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics (Focal Press, 2008)

Sharing his personal filmmaking experience, award-winning producer/director Danny Draven reveals how to create a spine-tingling horror film from start to finish.

Readers will not only discover how to craft the story, but also how to master using production techniques, music, lighting and editing to thrill audiences. Straight-from-the-set tips will help readers avoid common filmmaking pitfalls, and extensive information on marketing and distribution will show you how to get your film out to the public.

    * Write, produce, and distribute your own low-budget but high-quality horror film.
    * Find even more hands-on horror advice and over an hour of video extras on the companion web site!
    * Classic behind-the-scenes footage from Puppetmaster, Blood Dolls, Dead Hate the Living and more courtesy of Full Moon Features.

Readers will learn from groundbreaking horror legends such as Lloyd Kaufman, Toxic Avenger; Robert Kurtzman, From Dusk till Dawn; James Wan, Saw; Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare of Elm Street films; Stuart Gordon, Re-Animator; Tom Savini, Night of the Living Dead; “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis; Charles Band, Trancers; David DeCoteau, Puppet Master 3; John D. LeMay, Friday the 13th: The Series; Debbie Rochon, Tromeo & Juliet; Reggie Bannister, Phantasm and many more!

And That’s Not All…

Due to the tremendous buzz that is generating about this book, Focal Press is offering a free sample chapter to post on your blog or website. Any site that can demonstrate that they’ve posted the sample chapter on their site, will be entered to win a prize pack of books to give away to their readers, along with the chance to raffle off a one-hour phone consultation with author, Danny Draven, exclusively on their site. Draven is also available for interviews.

The Filmmaker’s Book of the Dead

    * ISBN 13: 978-0-240-81206-9
    * PUB DATE: March
    * US PRICE: $39.95
    * EUR PRICE: 29.95
    * GBP PRICE: 19.99

About the publisher: Focal Press has been a leading publisher of Media Technology books for 70 years. We provide essential resources for professionals and students in many areas including: film and digital video production.