This post originally appeared on Quora January 26, 2020. Why were there so many slasher horror movies made in the early 1980s? When Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out in 1974, audiences were shocked and terrified by it, and people protested it in droves. Some even thought it was real. This turned the interest in slasher…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]This originally appeared on Quora February 1, 2020. How do you watch scary movies and sleep peacefully? That’s actually easy for me. I think about ways the most disturbing imagery could help improve my writing. If something particularly stood out or gave me a good scare, then I want…
Michael Myers is practically my boyfriend. At least you’d think so judging by the way I consume the Halloween movies and lore of the several different retellings and story lines. He’s by far my favorite horror figure. The Shape of nightmares. The man behind the bushes. He is cat-like, the way he stalks his prey,…
This answer originally appeared on Quora on March 21, 2020. This is an excellent question. Mental illness comes up a lot in the horror genre (including my own works), and there are a few reasons for it. My top five are below, coming from the view of a horror author. Mind and reality bending. Creating…
