About my blog: My ODE TO HORROR
Since I was little, I’ve been inundated with horror movies. At first, it wasn’t by choice, but simply a regular occurrence, not that I had the wherewithal to understand the psychological implications on my young psyche, but it was centered around family and togetherness . I watched the entire Friday the 13th film series while getting my hair braided by Cousin Faye and was traumatized at the age of 8 by Chucky, who would later become one of my favorite horror movie villains.
I remember seeing The Thirteenth Ghost, Darkness Falls, and The House on Haunted Hill in theaters with a mother who would ask if I wanted to leave. Despite my enthusiastic head shaking, we would stay to the very end. I remember watching Stephen King’s miniseries Rose Red— an underrated gem —with my family, as well as the movie Anaconda, while eating popcorn in the living room of my grandparents’ house on the box TV that apparently everyone had back in the day.
As I’m writing this out, I realize that horror was the go-to in my household. A macabre genre that has transcended the generations and has become a place of comfort and joy. The occasional nightmare is simply the mark of good storytelling, horrifying makeup, semi-good direction, and the piercing screams that echo my own internal plaguing fear that preys upon me during the waking hours. However, I’m not alone in this obsession to consume and search out this type of content as much as possible.
The wonderful thing about horror is that sometimes it takes on the face of the mundane and ordinary and turns it into something that we watch over and over. Horror is not a monolith that can be described simplistically by jump scares and boogeymen with half-melted faces. It’s also a commentary on the human condition because our uniqueness and backgrounds create relatability that can be explored from a horror point of view.
Although I’m a lover of the dark and bloody, my mission with my blog is to explore the genre beyond a surface level. I can’t pretend to know everything or to have seen most things, but I’m challenging myself to dive a little deeper and to grow my appreciation and a new perspective for all things horror.
