Earlier today I was talking with my co-worker, PJ. We were
chatting about how now a days I download most of my movies, due to my lack of
funds, and how I miss all the extras they have on DVDs. PJ in answer to me said
“I don’t know what your problem is to me all that is just crap and has no
value.” I have to say my jaw dropped. I told him how I loved to watch “The
Making of” videos and hearing the filmmakers’ thoughts on their film. Again, I
got the same response that all of that material has no value.
Well, honestly, I’ve heard a lot of that in the horror
community, especially from convention organizers. Seriously, you ask them about
signing horror writers or horror screen writers you get the same attitude, it’s
like you’re wasting their time, because in their eyes writers period are of way
lesser value than filmmakers, actors, painted up scream queens, horror hosts,
and documentary filmmakers.
I want to know when the fuck did writers lose their value
and who the fuck made that decision? I mean give me a fucking break. I remember
years ago when I would go to conventions, the old Fangoria Weekend and Creation
conventions, that you had authors as regular guests. Hell, there used to be
panels for horror and science fiction writers. Hell, screenwriters were treated
like stars at the old conventions. I remember attending panels lead by Harlan
Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and even by Dean Koonz. It was what inspired me to start
writing.
Think about this,
assholes…What would Friday the 13th be without that wonderfully crafted
script written by Victor Miller? Or how about Scream without the genius of
screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Or Texas
Chainsaw Massacre without writer Kim Henkel. Oh, and what about Halloween
without John Carpenter and Debra Hill…Oh, but I forgot John Carpenter is also a
filmmaker so he does have value. And, what about authors? Why is Bentley Little,
who has been bleeding and writing his art for years, so inferior to some
jackass who edits together film clips and interviews actors for a direct to
video documentary on a film franchise? What makes them such stars over a person
who sits in a room for months at a time ripping their soul apart and creating
entire worlds and people in his mind and slaving to bring their vision to the
world. Excuse me, but how fucking dare you arrogant pricks say such a thing. If
it wasn’t for the dedication of writers the filmmakers, who you fucks so admire
so much, would be sitting around shooting films of trains coming into stations.
All writers are important to horror. They are way more important than the
fucktards that put out My Name is Jason or Never Sleep Again. If it wasn’t for
the dedication and sweat of screenwriters these fucks wouldn’t have any
material to do their fucking documentaries about. Yet, unless a writer isn’t a
Stephen King or Clive Barker they are considered trash by convention organizers
and thus only worthy of a vendors table in the back of the vendor’s room. Fuck
you, you arrogant bastards. It shows how totally fucked up the situation is
that a number of writers ended up emptying their own pockets to put on their
own gathering in Kentucky to connect with fans, because they were sick of being
treated like garbage by convention organizers. Look at the world you ignorant
fucks. Computer tablets and E books are on the rise. People are reading again.
The written word is not dying, it is like a phoenix and being reborn, so in the
world writers have value. The horror community, and especially convention
organizers, need to keep up with the times…Give horror writers and screen writers the respect they deserve, because they have value....
