slashers
Mad Hatters at the Cocteau
Good time this weekend in snowy Santa Fe. That’s me in the slash hat. What you can’t see? There’s slashers all on the hatband: Guess Ghostface is kind of criminally tilted (sorry, Billy and Stu), and the jewel of them all is the werewolf, but slashers on a Slash hat is the real joke. Werewolves?
Nice words for Kissyface
https://outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/unspeakable-horror-2-abominations-of-desire-vince-a-liaguno-ed-evil-jester-press/Â
Favorite Horror Movies of 2017
Feel like I’m posting this too early, as I might get blown away by some movie X over the next five days. But I’ve got ten minutes right now, can get these down and in order, I think—with the caveat that I’ve yet to see Hounds of Love or Raw or Prevenge or Super Dark
Hooded Justice
Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes
Demon Theory write-up
Been years since I’ve seen one of these. Thanks, Michael McCarty: https://monstermikeyaauthor.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/demon-theory-by-stephen-graham-jones-book-review/Â
Dear Final Girls
Not sure how many slasher stories I’ve written, exactly. There’s this one, there’s “I Was a Teenage Slasher Victim” (also at Juked), there’s “Kissyface” in Unspeakable Horrors 2, there’s “A Survival Guide for the Police Officer Guarding the Final Girl’s House,” and I feel like there’s one or two more floating around in the horrorsphere.
Slasher Boy Bands, much etc
I’m always either finding these in my inbox or searching them up myself. And they never fail to make my day. Got any more, let me know. Always hard to select which version of “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” to include, as there’s so many. [ it doesn’t thumbnail every vid, just plays
Slasher season 2
I never even reviewed the first season, did I, from when this was a Chiller show? It was fun. It was kind of a ‘grown-up’ slasher. Well, it wasn’t teens-at-camp, anyway. The victim pool’s problems weren’t “what about curfew?” or “where’s the party,” but real, mortgage-paying actual-life kind of problems. There was a wicked knife,
The Films of October
Cannot cannot cannot WAIT for these two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPh0ZM4_eOc [ here‘s Adam Cesare talking about Tragedy Girls ] As for stuff I’ll likely rewatch this month, just because they’re great and I’m in the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHSbUMVDE0 But there’ll be a lot more midst and among these, of course. Which very likely includes It again.
Ghost Town Writer’s Retreat
Think I’m gonna have to make this an annual thing. Great time this long weekend, starting with me getting to my first panel late: It was “Haunts & Nachos,” but really it was Travis Heerman and me just answering any and all horror questions we could for an hour, whilst it rained and stormed outside—this
Past Couple of Weeks
have been full of events. Feels like I haven’t been wheels-down since Denver Comic Con, about. Had three deadline stories to jam down along the way, and trying to finish a novel besides. But, of course: wouldn’t have it any other way. Anyway, at Tattered Cover Lodo . . . last week, I think it
Scream Queens and Mongrels
Wonder when, or if, I’ll ever stop seeing werewolf stuff everywhere? This is from the second episode of the second season of Scream Queens. Remember how Halloween night is the one night all the werewolves can run free, because no cop’s answering a call about “werewolves?” Mongrels isn’t the only story that knows that.
It’s October
Meaning: I’m seeing Billie Jean on the shelf at Goodwill. Hoping there’s still one of these there on November 1st, as I really-really want one:
Lake Access Only
Which is a slasher I wrote  . . . two years ago? I’d just reread The Virgin Suicides, and thought, Man, that was cool, sure—along with American Psycho, maybe the book of the nineties—but, wouldn’t it be cooler if that royal first-person delivery could be used to deliver something with a lot of people dying
Slasher TV
And lo it came to pass, that the slasher did migrate to the small screen. Well, what we used to call the small screen. But the home viewing experience isn’t what it was in 1988. Nowadays, the image-quality and sound are practically theater, right? But that’s not the reason for the move, I don’t think.
Some Kind of Hate
This is the best horror I’ve seen since—since Deathgasm, I guess. But Deathgasm was playing it for laughs. This one, it’s out for blood. And there’s gallons of it. What I dig about it the most? It’s not the Holes setting, it’s not that the main guy could be the fire-kid from Sky High (really, he’s
The Final Girls
It’s a good time to be a slasher. Nearly twenty years ago, Scream revitalized the genre, kicked off a series of clones and also-rans—some of them quite excellent—that finally landed us at Leslie Vernon, at Tucker and Dale, at Cabin in the Woods, at You’re Next and It Follows, even accomplishing the unheard-of feat of