Book excerpt: Features dozens of detailed interviews with directors, producers, F/X pros, and more - Horror movies get better distribution deals--so they're great for independent filmmakers - Entertaining and informative, packed with insightful and sometimes hilarious anecdotes. Everyone who's ever longed to make their very own horror movie needs a copy of Splatter Flicks, a comprehensive guide that shows aspiring filmmakers exactly how today's most successful creators of horror finance, produce, and market their films. Interviews with the creative geniuses behind such low-budget moneymakers as Dead Serious, Till Death Do Us Part, Scarecrow, and many others reveal such dark secrets as how to make a movie for $ 2,000, how to get the best shrieks from scream queens, how to capture fear on film, how to make the perfect monster...the list goes on and on--it won't stop--make it stop--aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!! Yes, Splatter Flicks is horrifying...in a good way.