Good Morning, Kittens! It's the most wonderful time of the year!! If you live somewhere like me (Ohhhh Canada), you're probably already feeling that fall chill even though it's technically only the second day of the best motherfluffing season of the year. I don't know about you, but I'm already a PSL-toting basic babe decked out in flannel. There are some exciting things happening in my world at the moment - aside from 3D printing a foot inside my uterus - but there's not much I can share at the moment. What I can be openly stoked about is the[...]
1 A few aeons ago my best friend and I would jog together. Now I am no runner, but I could jog nice and slow and it wasn't that awful. Usually. Some days it was even great. But other days, ugh. It was rough. Maybe it was something I ate. Maybe it was dehydration, but something pushed me down. Physically. Mentally and emotionally I was ready to run, but once in a while...it was what my friend still refers to the five-ton man run. To her, it felt like she had a five ton man on her back. That's me today. Not for running, but writing. This post has had me dragging[...]
I LOVE TV, especially horror on TV. I always have. Every fall brings new seasons of shows I love, but also NEW SHOWS! Oh, the possibilities! Sure they could suck. Sure they could get canceled even though I love them. Sure ALL THE THE WAYS WE COULD BE DISAPPOINTED... But. BUT. They could be awesome. These shiny new shows could stick around forever and keep our horror-loving little hearts all full of sparkly darkness and blood pumping creepiness. Four brand spankin' scary (hopefully!) new shows caught my attention. The SyFy channel brings three of the four.[...]
Dolls. They are the first thing I boxed up and threw in the attic after watching Poltergeist, and now I have a few heads hanging around. Who would have thought I'd be decorating with dolls as an adult. As far as I'm concerned, dolls have been used in films for one reason. They. Are. Scary. As. Hell. So, of course AHS would choose to feature a talking and bleeding doll and creepy black spiders. I mean, why not? I am super excited to see what Lady Gaga does this season. Haven't seen the trailer? Check this out![...]
As I wrote about a little while back, I am attempting to make my way through Stephen king's IT for the first time, and this is my fifth attempt. The previous four have all ended somewhere between the 500-700-page mark, if I remember correctly. So, I read through the first 120 pages or so, which, according to my Kindle, is approxiamtely 11% of the book. I just finished being introduced to Beverly, the sixth of our seven main characters. Her introduction was arguably the most jarring, as we are given a very close (and graphic) look at the abusive relationship that[...]
I'm writing this through droopy eyes, with a mug of tea that's long grown cold. For today, we had the Nephews. Don't get me wrong. I love everything about the tiny creatures, but three kids that are three and under is nutty. It doesn't matter how hard you try to tucker them out or how many treats you give them, you will eventually lose control of the asylum. You are, at any given time, one bite away from pure pandemonium. Once the kids went to bed, Matt and I collapsed in the living room. We ran through our usual banter about never having sex again now that t[...]
This week has been something else. I wash my hands of it. When I have a week like this, I've learned to build in down time. And tonight, I do so by thinking about what I want to watch this weekend. My goal is to go through any and all of these seven gems which--for one reason or another--scared the ghosts right out of me the first time I saw them. And then some. #7: THE BOY. Discovered it when I recognized that girl from the zombie show. Holy fekking sheeeet. The only thing worse than a doll is a doll that may or may not be possessed. https://www.youtube.com/w[...]
If it bleeds, we can kill it. A friend and coworker posted this quote on Facebook. And I was immediately curious over whether or not the current political climate had pushed him over the edge. What I didn't know was that this is a famous line from the 1987 movie, Predator. He quickly set me straight. I will be bombarding him with quotes from the movie as I watch--be warned they might also find their way to Twitter and Facebook, too:) For those of you who have never seen Predator, I've posted the trailer below. I haven't seen this movie since it came out. This i[...]
Hello fellow horror fans. Today we're visiting the deep end of the swimming pool. Let's shimmy up to the edge, our toes curling around the lip of cement that separates us from the water, and peer down into the murk and what lingers there. It's been some time since I've tried to put one of these posts together, and there's a good reason for that. Let's call it the separation of church and state; art and presentation; craft and identity. I'm at DragonCon this weekend, surrounded by a hoard of seventy thousand like-minded individuals who are, cumulatively, wilder a[...]
That's right! My choice of movie to live-tweet this month is one of Amy's (one of our Midnighters) favorites! I watched The Cabin in the Woods because Amy told me to. Basically. And why wouldn't I want to? This 2012 horror/comedy was written by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, directed by Drew Goddard and produced by Joss Whedon. Dude. This movie made me laugh, cringe, and sent my horror-loving heart all aflutter. SO LET'S WATCH IT TOGETHER! We'll follow five college friends... As they go on a little vacation to a deserted cabin deep in the woods. It[...]