Horror Blogaround: 2016 in review

Here’s some reading, listening and watching for you so you can catch up on anything you might have missed last year, plus a little peek at some of upcoming treats for 2017.  Year-end recaps Girls Will be Ghouls present the 21st episode of their podcast, entitled Sirening in the New Year. It has a 2016 …

Carrie Fisher and points of light

Fuck that bikini, this is my Leia: my quiet but long-term love for Carrie Fisher

My first horror film: Dementia 13 (1963)

My family had gone from our home in Ohio to visit my grandparents in Red Jacket, West Virginia. I think I was about four and my older brother was a year older. At that point, most of our cousins and even an aunt and uncle were in their teens, so there was quite an age …

Scary Christmas: 7 horror films for the holidays

If you’re surfeited with all the sickly-sweet holiday fare, here are some darker delights to cleanse your palate: Dead of Night (1945) – People tend to remember this anthology film for the segment starring a creepy Michael Redgrave with his even creepier ventriloquist’s dummy, but one of the stories takes place at a children’s Christmas …

Jane – My first Horror film: Alien (1979)

Jane recalls her first horror film experience with Alien (1979)

Horror Blogaround: 18 December 2016

Some recommended reading from this past week: The Monsters Among Us: My Favorite Horror Movie Monsters of All Time – Graveyard Shift Sisters compile a list of 13 of the greatest monsters in psychological horror films: “The horror genre at its best has always been symbolic in the way it can penetrate and expose our …

Hannah – My first horror film: Brimstone and Treacle (1987)

I asked Hannah about the first horror film that she can remember really leaving an impression on her, and she recalled Brimstone and Treacle. Note: this isn’t the version featuring Sting that was released in cinemas in 1982, but a TV play originally filmed in 1976 starring Michael Kitchen and Denholm Elliot that was deemed …

Ten horror YouTube channels by women

  MsCreepyX MsCreepyX is Danielle from Kentucky, USA. Her channel features TV and film reviews, paranormal vlogs, stories, thrifting hauls, short films, haunted house and graveyard tours, haunted doll videos, and much, much more. She’s definitely one of the more diverse horror YouTubers going and she says, “I will constantly be adding variety, and I …