Beyond Couture Films

💭 Do you think Glinda ever saw the truth behind the glass, or did she learn to live with the reflection?

What We Left in Emerald City When the Credits Roll | Wicked

💚 The cracks in Emerald City were never just glass. They were truth trying to get through.

Wicked: For Good approaches, asking what we kept in Oz and what we lost trying to make it shine.

📖 Story on Substack

#writingcommunity #filmwriting #cinematicstorytelling #musicalfilms #whenthecreditsroll

💭 Do you think monsters are born or built?

Rooting for the Monster Sometimes the threat is the one we created.

👁️ We call them monsters, but most were made long before they ever broke.

This week’s REEL Talk looks at the films that made us question who the real villain is.

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#writingcommunity #horrorwriters #filmwriting #cinematicstorytelling #reeltalk

💭 What would you do if the storm outside wasn’t the only thing trying to get in?

It's Never Just a Puzzle Cinematic Short Horror Story

🌧️ During a hurricane storm, a woman is trapped inside with her memories and a puzzle given to her from an old antique shop. As the pieces fall into place, something unseen begins to unfold.

🕯️ Story on Substack:

#horrorstories #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #cinematicshortstory #shortstorywriters

💭 What do you think makes The Purge so unsettling? The violence itself or how normal it feels?

The Sound of Permission When the Credits Roll | The Purge

🚨 The first sound isn’t chaos. It’s control.

This week we look at The Purge and how a siren became the sound of permission. A story about order, fear, and how collapse always starts quietly.

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#horror #writing #cinematicstorytelling #filmmaking #storytelling

💭 How do you protect your peace when the noise outside feels too close?

The Year Halloween Went Quiet Some years the dark feels too real to pretend.

🕯️ Outside, the world feels louder than ever. Inside, she lets the silence fill the room.

This week’s REEL Talk reflects on grief, isolation, and what it means to live inside the quiet while the world keeps spinning.

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#reeltalkseries #creativewriting #filmcommunity #isolation

💭 What would you do if you found three masked figures waiting at the end of the bridge?

Take One Cinematic Short Story

🎬 Halloween night is over, but the streets still hold their breath. A late jog. A bridge. Three figures that do not belong.

📖 Read “Take One” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/take-one

#Halloween2025 #HorrorStory #CinematicStorytelling #horror #homeinvasion #spookystory #shortstories

Do you remember the first time you heard that piano theme?

In His Shape When the Credits Roll | Halloween (1978)

🎬 John Carpenter’s Halloween taught me what fear could sound like and how filmmaking could breathe. It shaped the genre, but it also shaped me.

📖 Read “In His Shape” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/in-his-shape

#Halloween #JohnCarpenter #Horror #slashers #michaelmyers #filmmaking

Have you ever felt watched when you thought you were alone?

The Ones in the Light Slashers taught me how to see what’s really there.

🎃 This Halloween week REEL Talk looks past the masks and porch lights to the quiet truths that horror reveals. The scariest things aren’t hiding in the dark, they’re standing right in front of us.

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#halloweenstories #horrorreflection #slashers #halloween #horror

Do you believe every town has its own ghost story, or are some legends meant to stay buried?

Where the Fog Sleeps Cut Deeper | Episode 04

Teens in Bonnie and Clyde costumes spend Halloween night stealing candy off porches and laughing like nothing can touch them. 🎃

Then they take the wrong bowl, and an old urban legend wakes in the fog. 🕯️

Read: Where the Fog Sleeps

#cutdeeper #halloweenstory #urbanlegendhorror #supernaturalhorror

If you grew up watching It, which version stayed with you longer Tim Curry or Bill Skarsgård?

Where the Fear Began When the Credits Roll | It: Welcome to Derry

Some nightmares never leave Derry 🎈
This week When the Credits Roll looks ahead to It: Welcome to Derry (2025), the HBO prequel uncovering how fear began.

Read “Where the Fear Began” here:
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#whenthecreditsroll #itwelcometoderry #stephenkingadaptation #pennywise #it

Do you still open the door for trick-or-treaters, or has Halloween changed for you too?

After the Knock When the front door stops feeling safe

Fear used to knock for fun on Halloween.
Now it doesn’t need a costume. 👁️

A reflection sparked by Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor and the real stories seen through cam footage.

Read full “After the Knock”

#truecrimewriting #halloweenfear #reeltalkseries #netflixdocumentary #theperfectneighbor

💭 What would you do if you heard a whisper outside your bedroom window on Halloween night when the light goes out?

Hunger of Shadows Cut Deeper | Episode 03

An eight-year-old boy sorts Halloween candy under a flickering light as the curtain moves against the still air. 🎃

A cinematic horror short about fear, a whisper at the bedroom window, and the creature that steps inside when the light goes out. 🔦

#horrorwriting #shortstory #halloweenhorror

💭 What stayed with you after watching Interview with the Vampire The love, the loss, or the silence that came after?

The Night That Stayed When the Credits Roll | Interview with the Vampire

🎬 AMC’s Interview with the Vampire reminds us that monsters are not the story. Love is. The Vampire Lestat continues Anne Rice’s legacy through Louis, Lestat, and Claudia, stories of race, queerness, and memory that refuse to die.

#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #TheVampireLestat

💭 What did Aaliyah’s Akasha change for you?

When Akasha Rose Again Sheila Atim steps into the fire Aaliyah lit.

🩸 Sheila Atim rises as Akasha in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Lestat Season 3. A reflection on legacy, immortality, and the Black women who keep rewriting the myth.

📖 Full story on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/when-akash...

#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #annerice

💭 Would you open the door?

I Have Your Delivery Cut Deeper | Episode 02

🎬 A midnight knock. A bag that isn’t yours. Some deliveries should never be answered.
Cut Deeper | Episode 02: I Have Your Delivery is live now.

📖 Full story on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/i-have-you...

#cutdeeper #psychologicalhorror #modernhorror #storytime #writers #horrorshort