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.
“Found footage” is a favorite horror movie sub-genre of mine, even going so far as to see really bad & boring ones. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is not bad or boring (I re-watched it about a week ago), but they do improve rather markedly after this one. The best found-footage movie to my mind is SAVAGELAND, which scares and horrifies you with just a few dozen grainy, B&W photos.
The story that ties all the Paranormal Activity films together is actually pretty cool, but it’s difficult to figure out just by watching the movies. I didn’t realize the ways they all fit together until I read about it somewhere online. I’ve only seen a couple of them, so I might have put more of it together if I’d seen more of them. The first one is my fave so far, tho.
“Found footage” is a favorite horror movie sub-genre of mine, even going so far as to see really bad & boring ones. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is not bad or boring (I re-watched it about a week ago), but they do improve rather markedly after this one. The best found-footage movie to my mind is SAVAGELAND, which scares and horrifies you with just a few dozen grainy, B&W photos.
The story that ties all the Paranormal Activity films together is actually pretty cool, but it’s difficult to figure out just by watching the movies. I didn’t realize the ways they all fit together until I read about it somewhere online. I’ve only seen a couple of them, so I might have put more of it together if I’d seen more of them. The first one is my fave so far, tho.