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February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Freddy Krueger Is White Male Privilege
With Freddy Krueger, it was the finger knives that hooked us, if you’ll pardon that obvious pun. We were so into Freddy – a horror ghoul with no heart and soul of his own – he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they […]Archive
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
October 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of The “Final Girl” Trope
The “Final Girl” is a trope in horror films – the term was coined by academic, Carol Jeanne Clover in her 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A brilliant examination of the slasher boom across the mid-70s and 1980s. The “Final Girl” trope is something I’ve been aware of […]Archive
October 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Ben Living: Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1
Ben Living Crystal Lake Tapes vol. 1 Earthship Records Drummer, producer, remixer and – crucially – horror movie fanatic, Ben Living takes snippets from the theme tunes and dialogue from the movies he loves and bends them to fit into new shapes; basically cut’n’paste instrumental hip-hop. Previously he took the music and dialogue from the […]Archive
August 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 23: Misery
I first saw Misery when it came out on VHS tape. I remember it vividly. If it wasn’t the first Stephen King adaptation I saw, it was the first to have real impact. I was in Gisborne, summer holidays. A small bunch of us staying at a friend’s house, watching Return of the Living Dead […]Archive
July 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Case Study In Genius Branding
Most of the Friday the 13th movies don’t take place on Friday. It isn’t the 13th. And Jason is not the killer to begin with – he also doesn’t find his look until the third film. That’s when he gets his hockey mask. Later in the series they will blast him into other bodies – […]Archive
June 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: My Favourite Kill of All Is Mrs. Vorhees’ Head Being Chopped Off In Slow-Motion
Betsy Palmer collected bit-parts, replaced Lauren Bacall in a play one year, same deal with Ellen Burstyn about a decade later. She’d been on game shows and in some B-movies. She’s got another great footnote in her CV – she dated James Dean. But the last impression of her on the screen is the best. […]Archive
October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Looping
the horror movie is never over which is great when you’re watching it but not when you’re living it, I’ve got to stop giving it my time or letting it take what was mineArchive
October 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Oh, The Horror!
I’m like a horror-movie villain with the vacuuming, the dishes, the washing, and the folding and stacking and sweeping and cleaning. I put my mask on and just go at it. One speed. And if it escapes me momentarily I’ll continue to stalk it all, arriving eventually – netting it, capturing it. Strangling it down […]Archive
September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Halloween – Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies Halloween: Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones John Carpenter’s original score for the original Halloween movie is what saved it – the low-budget movie which is legendary now for its kickstarting of a new strain of horror films and for its pioneering indie film spirit was […]Archive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman