Writer's Block: Fright Show
Oct. 24th, 2008 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotI don't have one. I'm just not a horror guy. Sure, I love Japanese monster movies for the special effects. And I'm into Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter and crossover fantasy/horror stuff like that. But you'll never find slasher stuff in my DVD collection.
Yes, the fact that I'm not into horror surprises a great many, I'm sure. Seeing as I...
1) Share a common ancestry with one of the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century [Ambrose Bierce]
2) Am connected to Steven King via my siblings' association with an actor from at least one of his movies
3) Am connected to Jeff Strand through my mother's career
4) Lived in places where classic horror movies were made (Western Pennsylvania, see "Night of the Living Dead"; Hernando County, Florida, see "Dead of Night"; the Smokey Mountains, see "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness")
5) Have all sorts of friends who are into horror themselves.
I guess I'm just as ambivalent to dark occultism as I am to religion in general.
And having seen a real ghost just takes the fun out of contrived spookiness.
Yes, the fact that I'm not into horror surprises a great many, I'm sure. Seeing as I...
1) Share a common ancestry with one of the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century [Ambrose Bierce]
2) Am connected to Steven King via my siblings' association with an actor from at least one of his movies
3) Am connected to Jeff Strand through my mother's career
4) Lived in places where classic horror movies were made (Western Pennsylvania, see "Night of the Living Dead"; Hernando County, Florida, see "Dead of Night"; the Smokey Mountains, see "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness")
5) Have all sorts of friends who are into horror themselves.
I guess I'm just as ambivalent to dark occultism as I am to religion in general.
And having seen a real ghost just takes the fun out of contrived spookiness.
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