I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.
Why?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?
I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.
Are all these movies good?
Oh gosh no. But I recommend all of them to the adventurous viewer.
What’s with the CWs?
In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun. For those folks, I include content warnings. That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.
Who are you, aside from the mayor?
I’m Shaenon K. Garrity. I’m mostly a cartoonist. I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.
“I decided to use the real freaks to save hours and hours of prosthetic make up work, in fact. But they were all very lovely people and greatly enjoyed being in the film. I have a news clipping from a US paper where one of them was being interviewed after the film wrapped and said “I was so happy to discover that there were other people as deformed as I am and to be with them.” His nurse said he viewed it as the single greatest experience of his life. The only thing that was appalling about the whole situation was that the New York crew who, having worked with the freaks all day, refused to eat with them. So screens were put up to hide the freaks from the crew. It was dreadful, just dreadful. That said, I myself had lunch in my cool, comfortable air conditioned room. I’m very ashamed I did that. I should have set an example…”
“You know…he used people with real disabilities for the finale of that film. They were lovely and kind people, and he was unkind to them. […] NOBODY liked that man. He was just unkind.”
Michael Winner on the disabled actors (http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/features/748418-vault-interview-michael-winner-sentinel):
“I decided to use the real freaks to save hours and hours of prosthetic make up work, in fact. But they were all very lovely people and greatly enjoyed being in the film. I have a news clipping from a US paper where one of them was being interviewed after the film wrapped and said “I was so happy to discover that there were other people as deformed as I am and to be with them.” His nurse said he viewed it as the single greatest experience of his life. The only thing that was appalling about the whole situation was that the New York crew who, having worked with the freaks all day, refused to eat with them. So screens were put up to hide the freaks from the crew. It was dreadful, just dreadful. That said, I myself had lunch in my cool, comfortable air conditioned room. I’m very ashamed I did that. I should have set an example…”
To contrast, from actress Cristina Raines (http://hillplace.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/since-youve-gone-cristina-raines-interview.html):
“You know…he used people with real disabilities for the finale of that film. They were lovely and kind people, and he was unkind to them. […] NOBODY liked that man. He was just unkind.”
Interesting as always, but your written caption here is very faint and difficult to read.
The caption reads:
She went to a party with eight dead murderers.
Doesn’t everybody?