When I started to become interested in writing during my high school years there were three major influences on me stylistically. The first was Tarantino (who got me interested in screen writing), the second was Stephen King (which is why I use all these parentheses), and the third was Kevin Williamson. Sure there were other favorites like Lawrence Block and Elmore Leonard, but those were the three which really influenced me. With Williamson, it was the way he spoke on behalf of my generation. It was a culture infused and self-aware style which wasn’t afraid to add a side of cheese to its drama, but which always managed to feel real, even when it was anything but. His SCREAM is an all time classic in the horror genre, and I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER isn’t a bad entry, though it upped the cheese perhaps a bit too much. But it was really his creation of DAWSON’S CREEK which hooked me. He had created a character in Dawson Leery who was an idealist who wanted to get the girl and make movies. As a seventeen year old, I definitely got on board with that, heck it is why most everything I write is set in fictional Williamson, RI. So the movie today is TEACHING MRS. TINGLE. This is one of the lesser known entries from Williamson, who also directed.
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