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Pat Higgins has an unconventional relationship with fear. As a horror screenwriter, fear pays his bills. On the other hand, personal fears still spoil his plans. In this talk, Pat looks at the fears which shaped his childhood and attempts to work out what to do about them. Born during a particularly tense game of Scrabble between his parents in 1974, Pat spent his early life roaming the streets of Essex imaging that vampires and werewolves lay around every corner. When they refused to materialise, he wrote about them instead.


Since then he has forged a successful career as a horror screenwriter and director, with credits on eight features. He also lectures on screenwriting and idea generation at colleges and universities teaching the next generation to be better at what he does than he is and thus ensuring his own eventual irrelevance - he has seen the movie 'Gremlins' more than 80 times. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx