RED EYE
CINEMA MOMENT

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E.C. McMullen Jr.
RUMOR

Truth Hurts - Rumor Kills

Available in Paperback at Barnes & Noble

Available in Kindle at Amazon

PERPETUAL
BULLET

"'Some People' ... may be the standout story in the book."
- John Grant, Infinityplus

E.C. McMullen Jr.
WILLOW BLUE

"'Willow Blue' will burrow under your skin and stay there long after you've put the book down."
- Jeffrey Reddick, Creator of
FINAL DESTINATION

IN OTHER BOOKS
E.C. McMullen Jr.'s
short story
CEDO LOOKED LIKE PEOPLE
in the anthology
FEAR THE REAPER

"This Ray Bradbury-esque is one of the most memorable and one of the more original stories I've read in a long time."
- Steve Isaak,
Goodreads

HORROR 201:
The Silver Scream

Filmmaker's Guidebook
featuring
RAY BRADBURY,
JOHN CARPENTER,
WES CRAVEN,
TOM HOLLAND,
E.C. McMULLEN Jr.,
GEORGE A. ROMERO,
and many more.

And In
CINEMA
E.C. McMullen Jr.
Head Production Designer

MINE GAMES
(Starring:
JOSEPH CROSS,
BRIANA EVIGAN,
ALEX MERAZ,
ETHAN PECK)

Production Designer

UNIVERSAL DEAD
(DOUG JONES,
D.B. SWEENEY,
GARY GRAHAM)

Art Director

THE CRUSADER
(COLIN CUNNINGHAM,
GARY GRAHAM)

By 1994, New Line Cinema destroyed the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise and allowed Wes Craven the grace to return one last time to give Freddy a decent burial with Wes Craven's NEW NIGHTMARE. While the franchise played out over the 1980s, Wes staggered through a series of moderate hits and embarrassing misses. SCREAM was supposed to be Wes Craven's comeback. Especially after the crash with Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett in A VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN. Now all Wes had to do was pick up the spare with SCREAM already in the pipeline and Wow, did it clear the deck! Which launched a whole new franchise that Wes never intended. A franchise which promptly crapped on itself with SCREAM 2.

Like many successful directors with a long track record, Wes Craven knew what worked and how to work his magic when he had to. But he also loved to, needed to, experiment with the form: give his audience something fresh if not new (and boy did Wes ever love his audience! He had a chemistry with us that was palpable. We'd all come out of a Wes Craven panel yapping to each other, making new friends, crackling with energy and enthusiasm). Like any experiment, Wes's weren't always successful.

Let me be clear on this. I came out of DEADLY FRIEND thinking, 'What a piece of Shit!'

I came out of his movie SHOCKER thinking, 'What a piece of Shit!'

Then later I'd watch Wes in an interview or if I could, on a panel. There, the ever humorous and self-effacing Wes would own up to his mistep. He never made excuses, but he'd explore what he was attempting, taking us through his journey, even if he failed to achieve it.

Later I'd go back and watch those movies again, and while they weren't any better, I liked them now that I saw them through Wes' vision! I've seen DEADLY FRIEND and SHOCKER many times over since. Wes Craven is one of the reasons (there are a few) I have the So Bad It's Good Negative ShriekGirl rating.

Wes is one of the reasons that I'll buy discs of movies I Don't Like, if they have lots of extras - especially if they have a second disc of extras.

So Wes got it into his head that maybe he should step back from Horror Thriller and just work with a Thriller. That's when Wes, age 66 and still experimenting and trying something new, gave us RED EYE.