Just wanted to let everyone know that almost all of my books will be on sale for .99 cents on Kindle for this Halloween week.
Please feel free to share.
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Lukens/e/B00G8GYUUG
I will post or share a new article soon!
Just wanted to let everyone know that almost all of my books will be on sale for .99 cents on Kindle for this Halloween week.
Please feel free to share.
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Lukens/e/B00G8GYUUG
I will post or share a new article soon!
I came across another article about writing. The weird thing is that I started using some variations of these tips (before I read this article) over the last few weeks and they’ve been working for me.
Here’s the link:
http://writerswrite.co.za/how-to-defeat-the-dreaded-blank-page
Out of these tips listed in the article, the ones I’ve been using are:
This article also offers a list of prompts at the end to kind of experiment with stories and flex your writing muscles. I’ve never used prompts like this, but if it works for you then great! One thing I don’t have a problem with is coming up with ideas for stories, novels, or scripts. I have more ideas than I have time to write.
In the next few posts I’ll talk about where ideas come from (at least for me), and I’ll talk about the importance of jotting down ideas in a notebook and the importance of outlining.
Hope this article helps someone and please feel free to share.
Until next time …
Just wanted to let everyone know that one of my books is on sale for .99 cents until Oct. 16th – only on Kindle:
NIGHT TERRORS: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M66IU3U
How do you hide from a psychic serial killer? That’s just what Tara must do as the man who slaughtered her family years ago has found her. Tara, who has psychic abilities of her own, won’t run away again … this time she’ll fight back.
Please feel free to spread the word and share! I’m going to try to have all of my books on sale for .99 cents at the same time closer to Halloween.
I’ll post another article or share one real soon,
Until then …
To get ready for the Halloween season, I decided to construct a list of the best horror films. I Googled away and found twenty different lists ranging from 11 Top 10 lists, 2 top 25 lists and 1 of each: top 12, top13, top 15, top 20, top 26, top 31, and one was even a top 50 list of the best horror films (and you’ll see a lot of one-vote films that came from these longer lists).
I wrote down the 20 lists and added up the number of times a film was listed, and then I came up with an overall list of the best horror films. Now I’m not saying that this is an all-encompassing list; I’m sure there are some great horror films left off (and I would like to hear your thoughts about that). Below, I list them in order from most votes (17 votes from these 20 lists, on down to 1 vote films) down to the least votes.
And after this list, I’m including my own list of best horror films/my favorites. I hope you’ll enjoy, and please feel free to comment with your favorite film or films for the Halloween season.
LIST OF BEST HORROR FILMS
The next list all received 2 votes each on these twenty lists I looked up:
It, Rec (Spanish version), An American Werewolf in London, Insidious, Sinister, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1976), Seven, Jacob’s Ladder, The Orphanage (Spanish version), The Birds, The Cabin in the Woods, Ju-On (Korean), Last House on the Left (2009), The Descent, Suspiria, The Changeling (1980), The Mist, Les Diaboliques (French).
And these next films all were listed once somewhere on the twenty lists:
The Babadook, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Crazies (2010), Cujo, The Beyond, Frailty, The Stepfather (1987), Martin (1977), Bug, Candyman, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (not sure why this was on one of the lists), Black Swan (not sure why this one was on the list either), Cube (TV film), The Host, Coraline, Grave Encounters, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Mirrors, In the Mouth of Madness, The Devil’s Backbone (Spanish), The Brood, Deliverance, Wolf Creek, Evil Dead II, The Mummy (not sure of which year), Scream, The Others, World War Z, Phantasm, The Wicker Man (1973), Don’t Look Now, When A Stranger Calls (1979), Fire in the Sky, Silent Night Deadly Night, Pet Sematary, 1408, ‘Salem’s Lot (TV movie 1979), Trick R Treat, Child’s Play, Dark Water (Korean 2002), House of Wax (not sure which one 1955 or 2005), The Innocents, Interview with a Vampire, Les Vampires, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligeri, Peeping Tom, Vampyre, Dead of Night, Audition, Eyes without a Face, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Well, that’s the whole list. And here are a few statistics that I noticed in the top 34 films (those with three votes or higher):
Scariest decade: the 70’s. Here’s the breakdown: 1920’s – 1 film, 1930’s – 2 films, 1940’s and 50’s no films, 1960’s – 4 films, 1970’s – 9 films, 1980’s 8 films, 1990’s – 3 films, 2000’s – 6 films, and after 2010 – 1 film.
Here’s the breakdown of the villians/monsters in the top 34 films: aliens – 2, vampires – 3, zombies – 3, serial killers – 8, monsters – 3, demons/the devil – 7, ghosts – 7, and telepathy/telekinesis – 1. Some of the films were a little difficult to categorize, and some could’ve been two of the above choices, but I did my best.
Three directors were represented with two films in the top 34: John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, and George A. Romero. And Stephen King was the winning writer with 2 films in the top 34.
And for another list of favorite horror movies by geography in the U.S. here’s a link:
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/horror-movies-popular-city-state/
I came up with my own list of what I think are the top 25 horror films, and these are also my favorites so they won’t necessarily mirror the top 34 films above.
And here were some close runners up on my Top 25: Evil Dead II, The Amityville Horror, The Omen, Let the Right One In, The Ruins, Predator, and Quarantine.
What do you think about the lists? Have you seen most of these films? All of them? Are there some you still want to see? Do you have your own lists, your own top few favorites?
Please feel free to comment and share your favorites!
Until next time …