Category: slashers
By category, sub-genre, branch, type—whatever’s under “Horror” and’s on the movie shelf, and not getting too granular. But, “15,” right? I know. I tried to keep it to a properly spooky “13,” but things happen. Though, if you take #11 and #15 out (which would shatter me), as they’re not really ‘categories’—”Scariest,” “Perfect”—then this does slide in more like “…
Okay, this is probably A) expensive, B) delicate (maybe?), and C) something that requires long-ish nails-as-canvas in the first place, but still, this is glorious enough and glamorous enough and wonderful cool amazing enough that that might all be worth it:
…October was packed full of good times. I don’t think this is all of them, but it’s all of them I can dig up goods for—or, that I can remember to dig up pics and links for.
Started out giving a zombie lecture to an auditorium of people at CU:
Then I was at the Lighthouse in Denver for Atlas Obscura’s way-cool, properly spooked-up event:
Then it was GoH’ing at MileHiCon, where I got to give a little mini-talk o…
And, looks like the local news station out of Denver played it as a segment:
…If you like a good gory time with some ridiculous storytelling and nothing but laughs, you can’t do better than Gravy:
If you like that, then Murder Party‘s a sure bet:
And it goes without saying that Trick ‘r Treat is called for this time of year:
And, for something less silly that comes in one-two punch form (there’s a third, too, if the first two leave you all leaning forward, and you have to fall into something), Cold Prey and Cold Prey II are som…
For real horror, you need:
- an empty rocking chair, rocking
- a crackle-faced porcelain doll
- the close-up of an eyeball
- a spread-fingered hand on the other side of a window
- a tree swing, creaking back and forth
- and a cat flying out of every closet:
- doesn’t hurt to have a mysterious shape walking past a doorway, either:
Isn’t that mask just so expressive? It’s supposed to make Michael Myers faceless, but really it kind of gives him a soul. A dark, evil, tortured soul. Anyway, I think it’s going to be a touch before I get to actually talking about this latest version, BUT:
- if you haven’t seen it yet
- AND you don’t like spoilers
- AND you can’t help but finish every post you start reading, then:
- maybe don’t start this one yet?
Which is to say, spoilers wil…