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The Great Nick D’s Great Expectations - *[image: Poster - The Great Nick D (2024)] Now Playing: **The Great Nick D * (2024) *Pros: *Refreshingly original comedy-drama that respects its quirky c...2 weeks ago
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Under A Summer Skye, by Sue Moorcroft - As regular readers of the blog will know, I've been friends with Sue Moorcroft since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (we genre writers ...1 month ago
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A Review of Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits - Harlan Ellison was not a science fiction writer. Alright, so he wrote a *lot* of science fiction, but he also wrote a lot of fantasy, horror, thriller...3 months ago
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rach at the movies - I've decided to start up a new 2024 blog over at rachatthemovies.blogspot.com if you wanna follow my movie watching journey I'll see you over there4 months ago
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Horror Entertainment Watched & Read in 2023 - (Ratings 1/2* to *****) *MOVIES* The 3rd Eye [Mata Batan] (2017) **1/2 65 (2023) **1/2 99.9: The Frequency of Terror (1997) **1/2 The Abandoned (2019) *** A...6 months ago
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HWA’s World of Horror - This month, the Horror Writers Association is interviewing Horror writers from across the globe in their series, World of Horror. I had the honour of being...11 months ago
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Long Awaited News - New Website - THE HORROR GROVE - It's been a while my fellow Urban Legends and general all round horror afficionados! After starting this page to share my takes on some well known Urban L...11 months ago
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Fantasy fiction is the best fiction there is, and that's a fact. - We've all seen that ridiculous take-down of Brandon Sanderson, number one fantasy author, by an attention seeker, right? I've got some thoughts about ...1 year ago
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Why I love zombies - I'm not the only one obsessed with the dead who rise I often get asked when people look down my list of published books why I wrote a zombie novel? It ...3 years ago
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Host (2020) Review - Running Time: 56 min Release Date: July 30, 2020 Directed by: Rob Savage Review by: Stacey Well, if this little cyber-horror gem hasn't taken the interne...3 years ago
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Lego’s new “Hidden Side” theme is the only thing I need forever - I’ve been kind of bummed lately, what with the state of the world. Our headlong rush into fascism, irrevocable climate change, and, worst of all, the encro...5 years ago
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The Portal & The Experiment: Two Novellas of Suspense - This is my last post in 2018. I'll see you again in 2019. Thank you to those who have followed my blog. Happy Holidays to everyone! If you're lookin...5 years ago
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2017 and moving forward! - Today I look back at the last year and I find myself excited for what comes in 2018! While I haven't used my platform, I feel at this point it has grown ...6 years ago
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Death Nurse 2 (1988) - Exactly the same as the first Death Nurse movie and with the same "plot", cast, flashbacks etc but with a little communism thrown in for some reason. To b...7 years ago
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What We (don't) Do In The Shadows - Esistono i vampiri classici, vere e proprie icone di stile e raccapriccio (Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc.), i moderni vampiri glitterati e bellocci à...7 years ago
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CANNIBAL FEROX (1981) - CANNIBAL FEROX (1981) (UR) aka MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY Director: Umberto Lenzi 93 minutes Italy I rented this movie back in 1994 on VHS, but had to return it ...7 years ago
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The Invitation - “Okay Emma, do you feel up to talking about that night?” Emma changed position in her chair and stared at the fidgeting fingers in her lap. “Yeah, I gue...7 years ago
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"Stranger Things" by S U R V I V E - The Duffer Brother's "Stranger Things" pays homage to Spielberg or Zemeckis' character driven sci-fi movies from the 80's. It perfectly captures the er...7 years ago
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Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco (2015) - *Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco* *de Stephen Thrower com Julian Grainger* *434 páginas a preto e branco, com 32 páginas em cor...8 years ago
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COMICS SUCK! - Amazing Adventure #31 (July 1975) - *40 YEARS AGO - July 1975* *AMAZING ADVENTURES #31 (Marvel Comics)* *Review by Tony Maim* "The Day The Monuments Shattered" By Don McGregor (w); P. Craig...9 years ago
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Mutant Clusterfuck - Right, So awhile back i received an email from a chap who’s name I’ve forgotten and am far too lazy to look up, nor do i care to shame the man. He asked if...9 years ago
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57. - *Move to Transylvania.* Joke! Frankly, it is asking a lot–you’ll have to learn Rumanian and put up with bad, European winters. But you can always visit V...9 years ago
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Highlights from my adventures on the haunted SS Lane Victory - So, I finally got the footage edited and put it all together, along with some EVP's and photos from the investigation this past Saturday. What an amazing...9 years ago
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Bones of Brittany has Gone Fishin’ (or, For Those Who Don’t like Fishing–a Long Hiatus) - Hello there, fantastic followers! I know that I haven’t been updating my content recently, but that’s because I have some exciting news to share! I have be...9 years ago
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“What did you expect? A Holiday Inn?”- Mountaintop Motel Massacre - The title card assures us that Evelyn is certifiable. In the first scene, we see her gardening with a sickle. And guinea pig blood. Meanwhile, Evelyn’s d...10 years ago
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Getting back to real Horror: an interview with Jonathan Chance - "Something Like A Phenomenon" An Interview with Jonathan Chance by @Voldemort2013 Anyone who has been following the surge in popularity of independently ...11 years ago
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16 comments:
When I was pre-school age, my mother hung a picture of geese near my bed. She told me that if I got out of bed, those geese would come out of the picture and get me. If the geese didn’t get me, the “night snakes” under my bed would. To make it worse, I had to sleep with the door closed and the light off.
So in a round about way, yes, my mother not only supported my morbid curiosities, she seared them into me...
Nope, and they still don't! My mom's like, what, you still like that stuff? You still go to shows? Why are you covered in tons of tattoos? Where did I go wrong!
Even though it's totally her fault - I have that Halloween birfday and she always gave me costume parties with cool spider cakes and shit. It started the whole thang. And I totally blame her just to piss her off more. :)
they did not get it, they thought i might grow out of it... it's just a phase... but they were the ones letting me watch night gallery, twilight zone, night stalker, friday the 13th, etc. and for that i love them. did i grow out of it, no... my mind was formed, it is now warped...
My mom named me after a character on the original Drak Shadows, so there is your answer.
My mom is only just coming to the realization that this is a true passion and not some passing fad, so thuogh she doesnt support it in any way and hates it to death, she is at least becoming tolerant of my love for Horror. Still wont buy me any DVDs for Christmas though, but I dont buy clothes so its a symbiotic relationship
Absoutely, They took me to my first horror movies Halloween, Friday the 13th and The Fog when I was basically knee high. Plus, embraced my reading by not censoring my desire to read darker things such as Poe, Stephen King and Lovecraft.
That was in the 70s/early 80s though, when society was more open and less concerned with political correctness and censorship.
I suppose...my father is the one who kind of got me into horror, even though he's more of an action movie type of guy. He just has a sick sense of humor and laughs really hard at gore. My mom hates horror movies and hardly ever watches them with me, but she gets it I guess. My parents think it's "cute" and have more than encouraged it as something that makes me unique.
Yup, they did. I was not censored as a child, and I don't censor my boys unless it's outright porn or should be rated X. Thankfully, my parents were understanding of my horror fanaticism, even at 8 yrs old.:)
My mom helped get me here, she let my uncle show me horror films as a 3 year old, plus she always turned on horror films when they'd be on amc or usa.
I'm very grateful that my parents didn't care what I watched, put cable tv in my bedroom and because they never went to the movies, they were ok with me paying for PG/PG13 movie and sneaking into an R on just so they didn't have to buy my ticket for me. Good times
Um my parents are not horror movie fans. That said my dad used to freak me out as a kid with a story from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. But yeah, my parents put up with but don't endorse it.
When I was a kid, my parents would let me watch R comedies but not horror. This is the total opposite of the stereotypical American who allows their kids to view violent stuff but not nudity. But it made horror movies be in my mind the big "oh wow I can't wait to watch this crap" instead of having me sneak and watch Skinemax. Now I have my own kid and although I would let him watch horror, he doesn't like it.
Actually my parents didn't do any horror related...though my dad did take me to see Bloodsport and thus Van Damme entered my life.
My parents think it is strange and claim they don't know where it comes from, although some of my earliest memories are of seeing films like "The Hills have Eyes" and "Phantasm" at the Drive-in with them. They figured I would fall asleep. Guess what? I didn't.
I shall always remember... I was watching a "Hellraiser" in my room one night.
My dad came on in and queried what I was watching (it was during one of the sex scenes). "Not porn!" I said. "it's Hellraiser."
He looked quite disappointed in me, and shook his head. "I wish you had been watching porn," he said, then left.
So no, I don't think my folks 'get' my wee obsession. Although they did let me watch "Evil Dead" when I was far too young to see such things. Only themselves to blame...
My mom was a movie fan and I learned about old horror movies and their stars (as well as other genres) from her. In the '70s before I was old enough my parents went to see--as did *everyone*--movies like JAWS and ALIEN, and when I was a little older, I was allowed to watch them on cable. So my folks never had any problem with it and pretty much always treated me as an adult with my own tastes.
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