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February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Horrorfying: Overdosing On Horror Films To Cure The Frights
When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it a couple of years after that, we didn’t have a VCR any time early, it was always a trip across town to my auntie’s house and […]Archive
September 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Watching Donald Pleasance In The Halloween Films
Donald Pleasance in those Halloween films, hanging on every line chewing the scenery and spitting out clichés, doing the best he can to be so bad Michael Myers walks so slowly that even with that big knife you could just break into a wee jog, a tiny sweat and be done with it all. But […]Archive
March 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Getting Ready For Freddy
A Nightmare On Elm Street was the one that cured me from getting scared – or worried at all – by horror films. The entire franchise, I mean. Not just the first film. But certainly the first four are the ones I adore. Well, number two is a bit shit (sorry!) But it gets a […]Archive
February 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: I Used To Be Scared of Horror Films So I Watched Every Single One From The Local Video Store And Now I’m Cured
When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it just a few years after that. And in it, a pet alligator gets flushed down the loo. It ends up in the sewer where the bodies […]Archive
January 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: The Shining
So much could have gone wrong…that night I was hiding in the wheelie-bin. It had been emptied, scrubbed clean, and we thought it a funny joke for me to hide in there with an axe… Okay, back-up. You see, one summer we had an aunty and uncle staying with us, they’d just moved back to […]Archive
August 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman