SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 499 – Lessons From Clive Barker and Making Horror Movies with Anthony DiBlasi

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Anthony DiBlasi about his new limited location Horror movie ‘Malum’ (2023) which is a re-imagining of his prior movie ‘Last Shift’ (2014), and how legendary Horror writer Clive Barker became a mentor for him early on.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Anthony DiBlasi.

Our guest Anthony DiBlasi talks about his new limited location Horror movie Malum (2023) which is a re-imagining of his prior movie Last Shift (2014). DiBlasi tells us about working with co-writer Scott Poiley.

Topics also include how legendary Horror writer Clive Barker became a mentor for him early on and the lessons Anthony DiBlasi learned from him.

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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.