About My Blog

I've always loved horror movies. My dad and I would watch all sorts of scary films even before I was in school, and my mom loves to tell the story of how she came home from a day of work to find him and me hunched over a Fangoria magazine while he was explaining how the various movie effects worked. So I come by this predilection honestly, and I've been fortunate enough to find a wife who supprts my viewing habits.

I've also been trying to get my interest in writing to become more than just an interest. So my wife suggested that I try writing about horror movies, blogstyle. We'd both just watched "Julie and Julia", and while I'm certainly not expecting a movie to erupt out of these entries, I do think that having a project to help instill some discipline into my writing skills would not be a waste of time. So my own primary goal is this: by next Halloween (10/31/11) I'm going to try to have reviews and thoughts posted on 500 horror movies. 500 movies in 383 days.

I've got no idea if this goal is realistic, or will get hit, or will simply be a record of a failed project. I guess we'll see.

Before we get started, I thought I should share my own views on movie reviews.  In a nutshell, they're nice but should never be taken as gospel. If a writer's views and a reader's happen to match up, then that reviewer may be a good fit for said reader; but when it comes to movies, I'm well aware that we all like different things. That's just fine. So if you, potential and probably imaginary blogreader, don't agree with what I've said and the reasons why, I'm certainly not going to be offended. All I ask is that you keep any feedback on the polite side of things...messages like "You suck", etc, will be summarily ignored.

Okay, I think that'll do fo a start. I will say that these reviews will probably have spoilers. I'll try to mark them as such, but I make no promises. Let the reader beware.