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*Note From Dave* Below you are going to meet a lady whom I have known for years but never met. She was a regular over at Savini.com back in the good old days when we had a chat room and message board. She was one of the charter members of The Secret Society and most importantly she is one of us, a horror freak. Janet will be contributing on what I hope will be a very frequent basis and I know that she is going to be a wonderful addition to our little family. Welcome Janet.
THE FAN GIRL NEXT DOOR.
Allow Me To Introduce Myself...
Me: Hello my name is Janet and I'm a horror addict.
You: Hello Janet
I
will be your resident fan girl, please fasten your seat belts and keep
your arms inside at all times. Enjoy the ride. I'm here to entertain.
How
long have I been into horror? As long as I can remember. Growing up, my
sister and I didn't just watch horror movies, we experienced them. As
kids we watched "The Toolbox Murders","The Exorcist", "Halloween" and
what childhood wouldn't be complete without an expedition to the local
drive in, all snuggled in our jammies, mom, dad and two little blonde
girls in the back seat watching...."The Corpse Grinders"
Were my
parents mental? Nah, just horror fans themselves and, hey, it was the
70's and back then it seemed OK to let your kid watch a woman
masturbating in a bathtub before getting it with a power drill. During
our entire childhood I think my sister and I got MAYBE 2 hours of sleep.
As
I got older I didn't find many people into horror. It seemed a lot of
people felt if you liked watching oversexed teenagers getting butchered
at summer camp that MUST mean you have bodies buried in the walls of
your house. I even wondered if I wasn't, well, psycho.
I
realized one important thing, if your worrying about whether your a
psycho or not your most likely not a psycho. Psychos don't sit around
worrying if they are psychos. They are too busy killing hookers and
making skin suits.
Finding cool people to share my obsession
with hasn't always been easy. I remember Seeing "Wrong Turn" with a guy
and while I know that movie isn't exactly the 'Citizen Kane' of horror
movies, it's still a horror movie and all horror movies deserve a
fighting chance in my book. But he was the find of guy who would
announce he had to go "drop the Cosby kids off at the pool" as he was
getting up to go to the bathroom. Yeah.
Around half way
through the movie my companion felt the need to burst into loud,
obnoxious laughter at discovering who exactly had been tormenting the
hapless group of Abercrombie and Fitch models. "Oh SHOCK!, they're
inbreds!", bellowed a sarcastic voice from the back of the theater.
Sigh. To me, you can goof on a horror movie but you shouldn't mock it,
as if your somehow too good to be sitting there watching it.
I
kind of knew things weren't going to work out anyway when I saw the
front of his T shirt, which read "Liquor up front, Poker in the rear",
I'll let you figure it out. YES, the killers were mutant inbreds and
they may have had body parts being pickled in their dirty fridge but at
least they had enough class and good sense to not wear that t shirt.
Anyway, I'll be giving my thoughts on a wide variety of horror
related subjects and as smart ass and obnoxious as it may be at times,
it always comes from a good place. I want to thank the super cool and
very kind Dave Dreher for giving me a home and for making me feel
really welcome.
Until next time.....
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