Spooky wooky happy time

Halloween! My favourite time of the year, what could be better then spooky dress up and everything covered in blood? Everything is the answer if you don't like that sort of thing i guess, but for me since i was little I've always enjoyed the darker side, Beetlejuice was the best cartoon, watching Stephen King's IT made it impossible to go to the bathroom without my brother waiting outside for me and playing Resident evil on the first playstation was a regular weekend experience for me and my nan.

childhood bathroom visits ruined

Roll on some years and I still enjoy the horror films and games, although it has been a while since I have watched or played something current that has made me scared....apart from the Walking Dead, but I've cried more over that then screamed.

I don't scare easily, maybe because I watched horror from a young age and accidentally desensitized myself but I enjoy it so much to the point I feel my friends and boyfriend think I'm the odd one. I've seen some pretty odd and twisted stuff, The Woman (2011) directed by Lucky McKee falls into this dark hole, although not a film I would say was a horror but certainly gory and exploring a very twisted subject of misogyny, certainly never seen a movie like it.

Annoyingly though some horror is done to death. Like with most good concepts that are created it is soon rinsed of all that made it great in the first place so that they can make as many follow ups as possible. An obvious example is Saw (2004) directed by James Wan. Take a good idea and milk it for all you can! It's always been the case, it makes money and the world has another film to see, quality or not who cares? I really do! Halloween (1978) directed by John Carpenter was a great slasher movie, a firm favourite of my brother who took great pleasure in wearing his Michael Myers mask and peering round doors to scare my friends. Nine films later, two being remakes I believe (wiki) and who cares anymore? Michael Myers is no longer scary, all we get is a death toll.

I could go on and you could argue that many films get made over and over again to satisfy demand but it always looses it's original appeal and to me with horror that's important. I like being made scared, it's controlled fear over subjects that I know can't happen, or at least really hope they won't happen!

A list of my favourite horrors may appear closer to halloween, my main focus (apart from my Access course at college) is getting ready for a zombie pub crawl, becoming the living dead is surprisingly time consuming.

A plan

I wanted to start writing more and thought what do I like, I like tea and I like waffles, especially together, so I think I may begin reviewing the teas I drink and the waffles I eat when I'm out or things I buy.

Will try to post once a week, at least, hopefully once I get into the swing of this I'll be posting more.

I'll also include the competitions side of things, things I've entered and won, stuff like that.