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Learn How To Become A Professional Screenwriter - Brooks Elms

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Monster in the House Movies - What's It All About?

Blake Snyder has this wonderful elegant way of thinking about genre that's different than what most people think about genre. One of my favorites is that monster in the house genre and that requires a monster of some sort right but it need not be like supernatural could even be like a psychopath or you know something terrible. A house that's confined to the protagonist so that it's so that they can't get away right so that the monster is chasing them because if there's no house then there's no tension, he says.

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