FIRST WORD ON HORROR Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: FIRST WORD ON HORROR is a love letter to writers, to the primacy of the human experience, and the act of reading a god damn good story.
It profiles five of the finest horror writers working today. Each discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques, while reading one of their short stories.
As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and their delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression starts to reveal itself.
RELEASE DATE: February 2025
DIRECTOR: Philip Gelatt
PRODUCER: Will Battersby
FEATURING: Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Mariana Enriquez, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron
It profiles five of the finest horror writers working today. Each discusses their life, their inspirations, their philosophies, and their writing techniques, while reading one of their short stories.
As fact and fiction blend, secrets are revealed and their delicate alchemy that turns human experience into creative expression starts to reveal itself.
RELEASE DATE: February 2025
DIRECTOR: Philip Gelatt
PRODUCER: Will Battersby
FEATURING: Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Mariana Enriquez, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron
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00:00I mean there was already so much blood it was all blood but then there was so
00:06much of my blood too. This shape was something with horns. But that that's not
00:11a real memory. Like I was literally holding on to the ground trying to hold
00:14on to it so I didn't get sucked into the into this into space. And I went back
00:18behind to use the payphone and then I did not come back.
00:24Start with the Achilles tendon. You'll have to scream while doing this. There's no other way.
00:33He tells us to fuck off. He hates our fucking guts because of our health and
00:38our youth and beauty.
00:41That room never ended. Adela, Pablo shouted, could not be heard in the dark.
00:50The devil would be there soon.
00:55Drops of blood like rain flashing across her throat.
01:00Do I walk around thinking of Imminent Doom?
01:02Uh, kinda, yeah.
01:04The apocalypse.
01:06I've almost died three times. I don't think you come away from something like that
01:10physically, unscathed obviously, but also emotionally.
01:14Of everything bad I've done in my life I think this is probably one of the things I regret the most.
01:18And I was like, what the fuck is this?
01:24I mean, I would like to have like a normal childhood memory, but I don't.
01:29I really feel like the folds of my brain were reorienting themselves.
01:33I want to disturb. I want to make people uncomfortable.
01:37You get blood on the handle of that knife and it starts turning in your hand and you make a miscut.
01:42Writing's really no different. Sometimes you're barely holding on.
01:53you