Master's thesis of Arts (Creative Writing): Crater Lake: a study of the monster within

This research is aimed at bringing together the two separate but related fields of film theory and screenwriting. The purpose of the research is to help investigate ways for writing a horror screenplay that is more than fantasy of gory sensationalism, but has something to say about the world. According to academic and author, Mark Jancovich, ‘through psychoanalysis, the fantastical nature of many horror plots can be read not as escapism, but as an attempt to deal with repressed materials’ (2002, p. 21).