McFarland & Company to Release Cheap Scares!

I missed this when I published the cover for the Johnny Gruesome paperback. I guess I was just in such awe from how cool the cover art was, I looked right over the news about Gregory Lamberson’s other book; Cheap Scares! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets that is being released on June 29th by McFarland & Company.

Cheap Scares! is a comprehensive look at low budget horror filmmaking and features in- depth interviews with filmmakers J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door), Roy Frumkes (Street Trash), Larry Fessenden (Habit), Brett Piper (Shock-O-Rama!), James Lorinz (Swirlee) and Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), as well as up and coming filmmakers Devi Snively (Trippin’), Justin Channell (Die and Let Live), Justin Wingenfeld (Skin Crawl) and screenwriter Robert Craig Sabin (Rex Miller’s Chaingaing).

Lamberson says he wants the book to be, “genuinely useful and inspiring to low budget filmmakers without misleading them about the reality of the current state of the marketplace for micro-budget films.”

Cheap Scare! also features guidance by an entertainment attorney (Jerry Gold), a horror DVD distributor (Stephen Biro, president of Unearthed Films), and a marketing executive (Paige Davis from POP Cinema).