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Cheap Scares!
Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets

2008 Bram Stoker Award Finalist - Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

Order NOW from McFarland & Company

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 Forget the others, they are already outdated.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

"It's an axiom that's proven time and time again in Hollywood--that the best horror films, and the most unique voices, almost always come from outside the Studio System., Want to prove you're one of them? Then sit your butt down and read Greg Lamberson's CHEAP SCARES!--it's chock full of the tools and insights that'll help you on your way."
--Stephen Susco, screenwriter of THE GRUDGE and JACK KETCHUM'S RED

"When I was a kid I wanted nothing more than to be involved in the movies. So I made my own. I struggled with the lack of information that was out there and greedily drank up all that I could. I wish this book ahd been in my arsenal at the time. Greg Lamberson has already been down the road and he can tell you like a father what happened to him along the way."
--Mike McCarty, Author and KNB FX Artist

"It's the best book on filmmaking I've ever read, head and shoulders above the rest."
--Desmond Reddick, DREAD MEDIA

McFarland & Company, Inc. will publish my guide to making low budget horror films sometime in Fall/Winter. 50% of the book is based on my experiences creating, selling, and marketing low budget horror films, and 50% features in depth interviews with some of the best, most important, and newest filmmakers creating low budget horror today, including:

J.R. Bookwalter - Writer, director, producer, editor (THE DEAD NEXT DOOR and many others)

Justin Wingenfeld – Writer/director (SKIN CRAWL)

Robert Craig Sabin – Screenwriter/Actor/Producer (CHAINGANG, SLIME CITY)

Devi Snively – Screenwriter/Director (CONFEDERATE ZOMBIE MASSACRE, TRIPPIN’)

Roy Frumkes – Screenwriter/Director/Producer (STREET TRASH, THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD)

Jerry Gold – Entertainment Attorney

Larry Fessenden – Screenwriter/Director/Producer (HABIT, WENDIGO)

Scooter McCrae – Screenwriter/Director/Editor – (SHATTER DEAD, SIXTEEN TONGUES)

James Lorinz – Screenwriter/Director/Actor (STREET TRASH, SWIRLEE)

Brett Piper – Screenwriter/Director/SFX Artist

Stephen Biro – President of Unearthed Films

Paige K. Davis – Vice President of Marketing, POP Cinema

Justin Channell – Screenwriter/Director (DIE AND LET LIVE)

CHEAP SCARES! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets covers the spectrum of low budget filmmaking, with an emphasis on storytelling and marketing, two areas in which aspiring filmmakers tend to be weakest. This book has been designed to be a comprehensive tool for anyone hoping to write, direct, or produce a low budget horror film, and features scores of rare, behind the scenes photographs.

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