Raves From Users
“This guy is the best script doctor in the movie industry, and this program makes you tell a good story whether you want to or not. A winner. If you even toy with the idea of storytelling, you must have this product. Highly recommended.”
– John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
The Horror story can be very predictable. Monster chases, hero flees. But your job is to get inside the form so you can do something that blows people away. The Exorcist, Jaws, Scream, The Shining, Nightmare on Elm Street. These hit films use the Horror genre to take the audience into the realm of what is truly horrifying in this life.
Showing the audience what is truly horrifying is not easy when they’ve read and seen so many horror stories. The contrivances of the form – the tricks the writer uses to scare the audience – are so obvious now that they actually make the typical horror story less scary. Even laughable.
Horror is also the most preset of all the genres,
with 15 story beats that must be present if you want to meet the audience’s expectations. That stops most writers cold:
first, because they don’t know what these beats are, and second, because they end up writing the same story as everyone else.
Horror is a perennial favorite with audiences, and with our HORROR SOFTWARE you can write a horror story that’s NOT like everyone else’s.
HORROR SOFTWARE gives you the tools to surpass the tough expectations of the audience and really knock them out with something new and terrifying. This software shows you how to use the Horror story beats to break free of the old horror mold and create the unique hero and monster and the surprising plot.
The software connects seamlessly to the main Blockbuster program and keeps track of everything for you.
Story Beats: apply all the specialized Story Beats for the Horror Genre. Make sure you hit a horrific past crime, a terrifying monster, and the kick double ending, among other horror beats.
Specialized Maps: use the Character and Nightmare Maps to create scary monsters and nightmarish sequences.
Horror Class: learn all the professional techniques from Truby’s Horror Class, organized and available when and where you need it most.
4 Story Examples: solve any story problems using four special Horror Story Examples.
• 15 key story beats of the Horror story
• Nightmare sequences in great Horror
• Errors in Horror and how to avoid them
• Character Map
• Creating a great monster
• Social world for Horror stories
• Inherent problems in writing any Horror story
• Ideal method for writing Horror stories
• Key Horror symbols
• Transcending the Horror form
