I want this blog to be the place where I can review the movies I'm watching and hopefully talk to other people who like horror as much as I do. For now here's how this mild mannered girl became a fan of creepy, scary, bloody disgusting things.
When I was 6 I asked my grandmother if we could rent Pet Cemetary from the local video store (yes there was a time long ago when you had to leave your house to rent a VHS to watch at home). She tried to tell me it wasn't a kids movie, but I wouldn't listen and she rented it to prove her point. At the part where the guy turns his head to the camera and half his head was missing I tapped out. Ginny was right it wasn't a kids movie, but while I was terrified of it then, now...I'm still terrified of it. Can't watch Pet Cemetary at all, almost 24 years later. Gage Creed still freaks me out.
After that I was a typical girl. Loved boy bands (NKOTB was the shit, yo), Barbie (although my Barbie had to marry my Michael Jackson doll because Ken had an accident where he lost both his legs), playing dress up (big theatre family so my "playing dress-up" often involved a stage with actual lighting and props), all the things little girls did growing up in the 80's and 90's. At some point I found Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine and never put a book of their's down for a solid decade. That's where my love of scary things started to grow.
I had always been into vampires (yes I thought they were sexy, still do, but not if they sparkle, vampires don't fucking sparkle), but I wasn't into horror movies just horror books. One Halloween while getting ready to go out I was watching Nightmare on Elm Street on AMC, and I got hooked into the movie. I had to watch them all after that. The long and short of it is that Freddie popped my horror cherry. He'll always be my first ::sniff::.
After that I was lucky enough to get a job at the local Blockbuster in my town and had free employee rentals to quench my thirst. I started at the beginning of the aisle and worked my way through the horror section one movie at a time. When I ran out of horror movies I started on the Sci-Fi and Action sections until there was something new. Back then horror movies weren't the bread and butter of Hollywood like they are now. There were times that I had to wait 3-6 months before a new horror movie showed up on the shelf. One of my co-workers had written and filmed a horror movie that was on our shelves (I know what was he doing working at a Blockbuster in the middle of Massachusetts? Again if his movie had come out now with the cast it has {Seth Green, Alice Cooper, Ted Raimi, Jeffery Combs} it would probably have lead to a career, but then not so much) He suggested other movies to watch that I had skipped over thinking they weren't very good just from reading the box. I never would have watched John Carpenter's The Thing or Meet the Feebles (not horror per say, but quite horrifying for some who grew up watch the Muppets).
Once I got into college I started working at the haunted houses in town. Oh I went to college in Salem (couldn't foster a love of horror anywhere better than the Halloween capital of Massachusetts). I had way more fun scaring the shit out of people all day than I should have!!!! This is also when I discovered survival horror games like Fatal Frame.
Now I enjoy sitting on my couch with a glass of wine or a good beer and watching the latest Hostel movie or enjoying a classic 80's slasher flick like Sleepaway Camp. Pinhead and Freddie are my favorite horror icons. I love Silent Hill (games and movies thank you). I've even tried to convince my father that underneath the all the traps and gore Jigsaw was actually trying to do some good for the world.
Enjoy!!
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