John carpenter’s: halloween

A TOTALLY timeless classic gets the Script to Scream treatment as Will and Lee head back to Haddonfield, 1978 and the night Michael Myers was first unleashed upon its unsuspecting residents. The birth of the Slasher genre, the use of a hype-man and the forced ingenuity of low budget film-making are just a few of the TOTALLY fascinating topics up for discussion.

Halloween scareology

As covered in our episode on halloween here we have the script to scream scareology graph. A visual representation of the scares in the film. The graph shows how scary a moment was and its timestamp, giving you a visual guide as to whether the film adhered to the oft discussed 10 minute rule…

script sample

To illustrate some of the elements, ideas and concepts we discuss in the episodes we have included some script samples for you to look at, learn from and get inspired by. Below is a sample from the script for john carpenter’s halloween.