{"id":8357,"date":"2018-03-14T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:00:47","slug":"so-scary-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/so-scary-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"#WritingAdviceWednesday &#8211; So Scary That It&#8217;s Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Writing Advice Wednesday<\/h3>\n<p>This week we&#8217;re taking a breather from Writing Exercises. Instead, I wanted to share a really interesting video essay. As you know, I believe genre is meaningless, Heretic that I am, but Patrick H Willems has created a great video essay praising those filmmakers who started out making horror films with an absurd comedic edge to them, and crafted some of the most interesting blockbusters in recent years. 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