The idea for his first film came to fruition when he met up with a fan and friend Scott Derrickson at a bar in Las Vegas where he pitched his idea for Sinister.
Subsequent novels included Sea of Rust and Day Zero. On the 26th of February 2013, Cargill released his first novel, Dreams and Shadows, an urban fantasy story of folklore and mythology, which also follows three modern characters from childhood to adulthood.
According to an interview with The Austin Chronicle he compared it to "a strenuous, endless crash course-maybe even a master class-in what does and doesn't work in a story." Having wanted to be a fiction writer from a young age, Cargill considered every film he reviewed and its feedback as a learning experience. I considered every film another day of classes and writing a review a home work assignment and it was graded by everyone who wrote nasty comments on the internet. "It's harder to write objectively about film without people feeling that you're being biased." Besides his work for Ain't It Cool News and his involvement with, he also did freelance work for and (the site that owned ). "I've always had a strict code about writing about films made by people I'm friends with," said Cargill. In 2011, he told Jordan Gass-Pooré with Slackerwood that it was getting "tougher and tougher" to write movie reviews because of his relationships with people in the movie industry. During his work as a blogging critic, Cargill met various directors, which occasionally led to small roles in independent productions. His first review for the blog was of Jon Favreau's movie, Made. He began writing for Ain't It Cool News under the name Massawyrm in May 2001. While working for Guerilla Films, Cargill began spending time with Ain't It Cool News' Eric Vespe (AKA 'Quint' on the site), which landed him a job on Ain't It Cool's "Indie Indie Column," a previously abandoned post.
Career Film critic Ĭargill wrote his first article in 2000, when he volunteered to write a review of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for a website called "Guerilla Films." His article managed to get the highest amount of traffic of over 50,000 hits, "a HUGE deal" at the time, which secured him the job to write more reviews. He held several jobs prior to writing, including video store clerk and travel agent. He is a frequent writing collaborator of Scott Derrickson.Ĭargill was raised in a military family, growing up on army bases around the United States. He is best known for writing the films Sinister (2012), Sinister 2 (2015), Doctor Strange (2016), and The Black Phone (2021). Cargill currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife. Christopher Robert Cargill (born September 8, 1975) is an American screenwriter, novelist, podcast host, and former film critic known under the pseudonyms Massawyrm (on Ain't It Cool News) and Carlyle (on ).
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