Monday 31 October 2011

Halloween

Halloween is one of my favourite times of the year, for once people actually try to make their houses look the way I wish they did all year round. Of course I prefer the unsettlingly creepy to the cutesy decorations. I find the gory ones just don't have the impact and are in all honesty just plain old cheesy unless they happen to be ultra high budget.

This brings me to Halloween traditions. Pumpkin carving of course a must, but a new one I started for myself last year is watching the movie Trick'R'Treat (next year I WILL dress up as Sammie and you can hold me to that). I always want to add new traditions so if you have any comment and tell me about them.

Another tradition I have learned about this year is All Hallows Read. I heard of this through Neil Gaiman on twitter. It is the tradition of giving out a scary book Halloween. In honour of this new tradition I would love to catch on, here is a short story I wrote a few years ago:

Timmy the Zombie


Timmy was quite the zealous zombie. He always tried to be at the head of the pack, despite his missing foot, whenever they were cornering a group of humans and no other zombie seemed to disembowel a sassy survivor with as much vigour as him, it was almost as if he were alive. One particularly dreary night when an above average altitude of doom was in the air Timmy just couldn't keep up with the group, it seemed his stump was stuck in a headless putrid torso. He made a snack out of the tantalizing tasty torso rather than sharing it with the cluster and when he was finished he found that all of the other zombies were gone. Like a trapped wolverine Timmy moaned for hours, but his groans were not heard by the hordes of the undead. Alone he hobbled, for days upon days.

He had almost lost all hope of finding even a severed limb to munch on, when he noticed some movement in the shadows. It was living flesh! Sweet succulant sweaty redemption! For a moment Timmy's hopes were sunk when he thought he saw fur, for everyone knows zombies only eat Homo Sapiens and no other species of animal, but then it turned its brain container and Timmy gurgled with excitement. He started to shamble towards the meal on legs, as was the normal meat encountering strategy in any good zombie grouping. When it started to run Timmy was filled with as much despair as any member of the living impaired could, for there was no other zombie to stop it from getting away. Now that he was on his own, he was the only one accountable for his own well being.

Hunting just wasn't working for Timmy and he was forced to munch on the leftovers of long forgotten massacres he found in his wanderings. The twelfth night had ended and he needed to quickly find a dark place to hide out due to his natural zombie fear of fire, and when you are afraid of fire the last thing you want to see is a big burning orb in the sky. Timmy shuffled with all of his might until he started to approach a decrepit cottage in the woods. It seemed the perfect place to hide from the inferno above. But Timmy was hasty in his approach; he had no zombies of higher intelligence to bring to his attention the fact that there was a large gathering of man creatures in the apparent safe haven. Being sluggish and alone as he was, Timmy was an easy shot. Right as he reached the door a bullet pierced his skull. It turns out you can die twice.

By: Ariel Hansen

Yes, I am a Horror Addict

So you may be wondering what makes me so qualified to write a blog about Horror, Sci-fi and other related topics. Well as my inaugural post, here is a list of the reasons why, every horror movie I have seen that I know the title of (they are in no particular order):


-Zombieland
-Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
-The Host
-My Bloody Valentine (2009)
-Jeepers Creepers
-Fright Night
-Fido
-Night of the Living Dead (original)
-The Evil Dead
-Evil Dead 2
-Army of Darkness
-My Name is Bruce
-Darkness Falls
-Ghostship
-The Orphanage
-The Ring
-The Grudge
-Pet Semetary
-Carrie
-Thinner
-The Hills Have Eyes
-Cabin Fever
-Dawn of the Dead (2004)
-Land of the Dead
-Shaun of the Dead
-Poltergeist
-The Exorcist
-Zombie Strippers
-Salem's Lot
-Return of the Living Dead
-The Lost Boys
-American Werewolf in London
-Shadow of the Vampire
-Dusk til Dawn
-Planet Terror
-The Quartermass Experiment
-The Omen (remake)
-Misery
-Halloween 2
-Gingersnaps
-Hell Raiser 2
-The Blair Witch Project
-The Blair Witch Project 2
-The Thing (1982)
-The Stepfather (2009)
-Frankenstein
-The Others
-Children of the Corn
-House on Haunted Hill (remake)
-The Haunting (both original and remake)
-The Frighteners
-Little Shop of Horrors (original and musical)
-Graveyard Alive!
-Dark Water
-Cloverfield
-Once Bitten
-The Craft
-Sleepy Hollow
-Thirteen Ghosts
-Interview With a Vampire
-Blood Freak
-Bordello of Blood
-Hide and Seek
-30 Days of Night
-Bram Stoker's Dracula
-Repo! the Genetic Opera
-Near Dark
-Let the Right One In (absolutely amazing)
-Martin
-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
-Dead Snow
-Day of the Dead (2008 remake)
-Feast
-Re-Animator
-Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
-Dog Soldiers
78 MOVIES SO FAR!
-Case 39
-The Serpent and the Rainbow
-House of the Dead
-The Ruins
-Daybreakers
-The Collector
-The Crazies (2010)
-The Crazies (1973)
-Pandorum (most of it)
-REC
-Grace
-Deadgirl
-Cemetary Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)
-Trick'R Treat
-Dance of the Dead
-Antichrist
-The Hamiltons
-Plague Town
-REC 2
-The Final
-Pontypool
-The Children
100 HORROR MOVIES WATCHED!!!!! (holy shit)
-Dead Alive (Braindead)
-C.H.U.D.
-The Strangers
-Friday the 13th ("remake")
- Drag Me to Hell
-Rosemary's Baby
-Halloween (Rob Zombie remake)
-House of 1000 Corpses
-Spider Baby
-Cube
-Creepshow
-Night of the Living Dead 3D (not in 3D and made in 2007)
-A Haunting in Conneticut
-A Nightmare on Elm St (2009 remake)
- Carnival of Souls
-Night of the Demons (2009 remake)
-Troll 2 (it was intended as a horror movie so it counts)
-House on Haunted Hill (original)
-House of Wax (original)
-Fearless Vampire Killers
-The Zombie Diaries
-Black Christmas (original)
-The Terror (or as the back of the DVD case said "The Error)
-Hostel
-Resident Evil
-Resident Evil 2
-Resident Evil 3
-Let Me In
-American Zombie
-Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
-Session 9
-Last Man on Earth
-The Uninvited (black and white really old movie)
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
-Lost Boys: the Tribe
-Bloody Pit of Horror
136. Can I make it to 200 before the end of the year?
-The People Under The Stairs
-The Wicker Man (1973)
-Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
-Sharktopus
-Seconds Apart
-Insidious
-Jennifer's Body
-Cabin Fever 2
-Fright Night (2011)
-Satanic Rights of Dracula
-The Monster Maker
-I Sell the Dead
-American Psycho
-Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
WOOO 150 Horror Movies!!!!
-Transylmania
-Village of the Damned (80's re-make)
-From Dusk Til Dawn 2
-Freddie Vs. Jason
-Suck
-Carriers