It’s kind of funny that I had originally set out to write screenplays about dark romances with plenty of humor and heartbreak and sell them to the big studios … but now spend most of my time creating horror movie scenarios for indie production companies.

Don’t get me wrong, I love it. I’m a huge horror fan. Have been ever since my mother forced me to stay up late and watch John Carpenter’s The Fog in 1982 (I was 7) because she was afraid to watch it alone.

This was also around the same time I snuck into the hallway of our trailer and watched Poltergeist without my parents knowing. You could see the living room TV from the end of the hall. They watched it one night without knowing I, too, was in on the viewing.

Wow was that a big mistake.

So many nightmares.

Those movies scared the bejeezus out of me then and they still give me the creeps.

I’ve always wanted to make scary movies.

It was a childhood dream to get a video camera and some friends together and do one up.

But, where I came from, there weren’t resources for basic necessities, let alone luxuries like camcorders.

As the poet Hughes quips: “What happens to a dream deferred?”

Well, if you’re lucky, you get to it eventually.

So, I guess it’s not too weird—when you consider how popular the horror genre is—that there would be such a big call, especially for scary flicks with deeper storylines.

As far as my dark romantic dramedies? I’ll continue to write them.

I love both genres, so I’ll work in both genres.