Halloween Horror: Prince of Darkness

John Carpenter has admitted to being a big fan of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, and it shows in several of his movie. In the Mouth of Madness was the one film he consciously intended to be Lovecraftian, but the influence of his writing is clear in much of his work. One of the ones I often hear cited as extremely Lovecraftian is his underrated 1987 horror film Prince of Darkness. It certainly has that sort of atmosphere. The final scene is lifted almost directly from one of Lovecraft's writings and there is even a character named shares her surname with William Dyer's unfortunate companion in At The Mountains of Madness. Bringing the whole thing full circle I think this film might in turn have even influenced my own contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos.

It all begins when an elderly priest dies suddenly of an unspecified illness. Among his belongings are a diary that reveals his connection to a mysterious sect, and a key to the basement of a seemingly abandoned church. Another priest (played by Carpenter regular Donald Pleasance) decides to investigate and finds something which motivates him to contact physics professor Howard Birak (Victor Wong, who also worked with Carpenter on Big Trouble in Little China) for assistance.

What he found turns out to be an enormous vial containing an ominous green fluid. A research team is assembled to study the peculiar properties of the thing, with the only explanation lying in an ancient book that contains complex differential equations (which shouldn't have been known when it was written). This substance is eventually revealed to be in a way the essence of Satan, or to be more precise, something far more terrifying from which the religious concept was derived. It has been kept secret for thousands of years but now it is starting to awaken. 

Strange things begin to occur, the homeless in the neighbouring area begin to surround the church. People are possessed by the fluid, transformed into zombie-like beings to perform its will, and carefully it begins working to bring about something even more frightening that will destroy our world. A desperate race against time ensues as the decreasing number of people who are not possessed try to survive long enough to figure out a way to end its sinister plans.

One thing I can tell you right off the bat is that this is a disturbing movie that has that atmosphere of dread right from the get go. Any film that can make a jar of green goo seem frightening is worthy of respect, and that's just the start. Even long before we see the goo, the atmosphere has an overwhelming sense of dread and hopelessness. When it does begin infecting people, things quickly become terrifying, and between the possessed individuals outside and the zombie-like servants within, the environment seems to gradually close in on the protagonists.

What I personally find interesting about this film, however, is it's approach to the material. The idea of taking old religious ideas and putting on a science fiction/Lovecraftian twist is a fascinating one that seems believable in a way. It also allows for an interesting dynamic in Donald Pleasance's role. His character of the priest is one who is constantly forced to question and re-evaluate his faith, but can never quite seem to let it all go. This constant conflict in his emotions is conveyed effectively and becomes a major driving force in the narrative.

Prince of Darkness is definitely a horror movie worth your time. I would strongly recommend you check it out, especially if you enjoyed the other two installments of John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" (The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness). It is a terrifying experience that will have you compelled to follow from start to finish,  and guaranteed to make you feel uneasy by the time it is finally over.

Halloween Horror: The Descent

Claustrophobia can be a very effective tool for creating good horror. Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing both made great use of a confined environment, but if you thought being trapped in a tiny Antarctic outpost while your partners were being gradually assimilated by an alien life form was bad, that's going to seem a picnic compared to what you'll be in for with The Descent. Right here is a movie that takes claustrophobia to its logical horrifying extreme, and uses it to full effect.

Speaking of The Thing, part of what made that movie interesting was the choice to use an all-male cast, subverting a few horror clichés by taking them out entirely. It is not too hard to find movies that have an all-male cast. A lot of my all-time favorite movies have exactly that, but what about the other logical extreme? Finding movies with an all-female cast is something of a rarity, and even more rare is finding an all-female cast in a genre that isn't stereotypically feminine to begin with (i.e. melodrama). The Descent is one of those rarities. It has a grand total of one male character of significance who doesn't make it through the first ten minutes.

Sarah (Shauna MacDonald) is something of an adventurer. She and her friends like to embark on all kinds of exciting thrill-seeking experiences. It all goes great until a tragic accident happens ironically after one such adventure has ended. While driving to her hotel, there is an accident on the road. Sarah's husband and daughter are both killed, and she herself is severely traumatized.

A year later, Sarah's friends get back together, along with a reckless skydiver named Holly (Nora-Jane Noone), and try to distract her by inviting her on a cave-diving expedition. Everything goes fine at first until it turns out that her friend Juno (Natalie Mendoza) had slightly more complicated plans than a simple cave exploration trip. They eventually find themselves trapped, claustrophobia sets in, the girls become panicked and tension mounts between them as they search for a way out.. and that's not even getting into what starts happening about halfway in.

This is a film that will leave you uncomfortable even before anything actually terrifying happens. If you have ever been in a cave, you will probably know how claustrophobic and environment it can be. We get a number of scenes involving the characters moving through spaces that are just large enough for them to crawl through, but also long enough that one can't help but fear what might happen if it gets to narrow.

There is also the anxiety that comes from not knowing for sure the way out, and the disorientation that comes from the fact that much of the movie happens in the dark. For most of the film, it becomes hard to see what is going on. Everything that can be seen is shown through whatever light the women are able to produce and occasionally the infrared setting on their video camera. This in turn helps to create the feeling of being trapped in a cave, with limited resources.

As far as character development goes, this movie is not the strongest, though that is not to say it is handled poorly. You do get connected to the characters and subsequently want to see them get out in one piece, but it is easy to lose track of who is who, especially once they enter the caves. However, this does help to add a layer to the disorienting atmosphere. Once they are in the caves and the lighting is limited to whatever the main characters can produce, it becomes harder to tell who is where, who is in front and who is behind. In that sense, the fact that it becomes hard to tell people apart actually works to the film's advantage.

Modern horror films have a tendency to fall into various traps. Often times they will have some really good idea that ends up being turned into a generic slasher film, or it will be an idea that was just silly to begin with. It is rare to see a well-executed horror film, but The Descent is definitely one of those exceptions. It is a compelling but never comforting piece that will make any claustrophobic cringe in their seat.

Halloween Horror: The Whisperer in Darkness

It is once again time to revisit the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and their group of independent filmmakers. In 2005 they did a surprisingly impressive take on the classic horror story The Call of Cthulhu, presenting it in the form of a silent movie from the 1920's. Naturally when they got back into action during they opted to take their next project up a few notches with something more ambitious.

The story they settled on was The Whisperer in Darkness. Like The Call of Cthulhu, this one was filmed in "Genuine Mythoscope" meaning they used a mix of contemporary and old-fashioned filmmaking techniques. This time, however, they instead opted to make a talkie that would resemble something closer to the horror films of the 1930's. If you have not read the original Lovecraft novella, I would recommend you take a look at it. Like most of Lovecraft's writing it is public domain so you can find it for free (here is a website with the complete text).

This particular one would introduce a monster known as the Mi-Go. Now the Mi-Go are one of Lovecraft's slightly less disturbing creatures. They do not make you go crazy if you look at them, but they have a very peculiar biology. The look something like insects but are described as being more like fungi or crustaceans, and apparently are somehow composed in such a way that they do not show up on film. The only thing is that they have a strange way of seeing the world, and are more than happy to place your brain in a jar and carry you around outer space.

The basic story is told by Albert Wilmarth, a professor of folklore at Miskatonic University (a fictional institution which was frequently referred to in Lovecraft's stories). It begins with a massive flood in the hills of Vermont, during which people reportedly find a bunch of strange-looking bodies in the water. Wilmarth, being familiar with the old legends towards which the reports have been connected, remains skeptical. However, he begins corresponding with an old farmer named Henry Akeley who claims to have found evidence that there are in fact strange and seemingly malevolent beings in the area.

The movie had to take a few liberties with its source material. After all, it would have been a bit dull if the majority of it was just two men sending letters back and forth. Much of the actual correspondence from the book happens off-camera, and instead the focus is more on how Wilmarth and his colleagues react to the evidence. There is now a sub-plot about Wilmarth entering a debate with real-life writer and anomalistic researcher Charles Fort, as well as interactions between the two when presented with photographs of the Mi-Go. It involves a few new characters but the story is still about Wilmarth and Akeley.

The really daring move was to go past the ending of the book and add in a "third act" of sorts. This was a big risk that could have easily gone wrong. It has a bit more action than what Lovecraft originally wrote, but it does still manage to keep true to the themes of his writing. Aside from translating better to screen, some of the changes also have the advantage that they can even surprise people who read the original book (similar to what has frequently been done on The Walking Dead).

As with The Call of Cthulhu, the cast is made up more or less entirely of unknown b-list actors, all of whom do a reasonable job. Barry Lynch is suitably unsettling as Akeley when he finally meets Wilmarth (I won't spoil the reveal by saying why you should be unsettled during his scenes). Many of the new characters fit right into the narrative and help to flesh out the world Lovecraft envisioned, especially Wilmarth's colleague Nathaniel Ward. Anyone who knows Lovecraft's writings will know that Ward is a man you really should listen to.

The Whisperer in Darkness is a well-done treatment of H.P. Lovecraft's classic novella, and proof that his work is not, as many claim, "unfilmable". It does leave me to wonder if the HPLHS are open to the possibility of any more film projects. I personally think The Shadow Over Innsmouth might be a good one for them to tackle in the future, or perhaps The Thing On the Doorstep. This one will be harder to find, but if you can, it will have some good scares and a great story.

Halloween Horror: In The Mouth of Madness

The 90's is often remembered as a dark time in John Carpenter's career. A lot of fans believe that was when the quality of his work started to decline. A lot of his less respected movies, like Ghosts of Mars and Escape From L.A. came out during this decade, but Carpenter still had talent. It was at this point he found himself interested in doing a movie drawing from Lovecraft, but there was one problem: how do you depict something that is indescribable, as was often the case in his writings?

The solution Carpenter reached was to do a tribute to Lovecraft rather than a direct adaptation of any of his stories, and the result was his sadly underrated horror film In The Mouth of Madness. This movie is based more on Lovecraft's ideals (specifically the bleak notion that humanity is doomed by its own insignificance) than anything else, although you probably could make a good drinking game just out of spotting all the references to different stories. Even the title itself combines At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. However, you do not have to be a die hard Lovecraft fan to appreciate this as a good horror story.

Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) is a hugely successful horror writer whose books outsell Stephen King. His stories are known to have strange effects on his readers, who are becoming extremely restless over anticipation for his latest novel titled In the Mouth of Madness. This is a book that will apparently drive anyone who reads it insane, and outbreaks of violence are occurring among his fans.

Enter John Trent (Sam Neil), an freelance insurance investigator who is hired to get information about a claim by Cane's publisher Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston). He finds out that Cane has supposedly disappeared and Harglow doesn't even know for sure if he is still alive. Tent quickly suspects a scam is in progress and tries to figure out precisely how.

He finds a potential lead in the strangest of places, which leads him and editor Lynda Styles (Julie Carmen) into a fictional town from Cane's stories. As Trent desperately tries to find some form of rational explanation, lines begin to blur. It becomes harder to tell fiction from reality and sanity from insanity. Basically, this is a film that really messes with your head.

In The Mouth of Madness is a very different sort of horror film compared to what John Carpenter is usually known for. There is less of the gore that one might normally see or the claustrophobic environments. Instead, the fear largely comes from the way it warps your mind, gradually distorting your perception of reality and leaving it in serious question by the end. Just what is madness, or sanity? What happens when what we call the insane becomes the majority? These are questions raised by this strange horror film.

A lot of the fear to be found in this movie comes from the general atmosphere of the whole thing, but really they have all kinds of horror. There are some big scary monsters produced with some amazing practical effects, but we also have a bit of body horror, psychological horror, cosmic horror, and fear of the unknown. Jürgen Prochnow easily steals the show in the role of Sutter Cane whenever he is on screen, and he can be pretty unnerving.

In The Mouth of Madness is a remarkable horror movie of a very unusual sort, and an underrated little gem from the so-called "Master of Horror" responsible for popularizing the slasher film. This is definitely not a film of the sort Carpenter popularized. It is a clever and eerie tale that will warp your mind and leave you to question just what is reality and what is true madness.

Halloween Horror: The Haunting

In his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, writer H.P. Lovecraft opened with one of his most famous quotes: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown". You don't have to be reading one of his cosmic horror stories for that saying to be relevant. It is practically human nature to be afraid of things we do not understand. Such is the theme of Robert Wise's 1963 horror film The Haunting.

As it's name implies, The Haunting in its simplest form, is really just a very well-executed ghost story about the experiences of a small group of characters in a house that is apparently haunted. What separates The Haunting from other ghost stories is the reliance on fear of the unknown. We feel the presence of something, but we never really find out who or what it is or even if the characters are actually facing ghosts in the strictest sense.

Also interesting is the approach taken towards its material. The whole movie plays out as a scientific investigation of the supernatural, conducted by the character of Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson). He goes into the house because it is said to be haunted and he wants to observe the things that go on there. As he himself notes, the only real reason we are afraid of the supernatural is because we do not understand it. 

Along for the ride is Eleanor "Nell" Lance, a troubled woman who may or may not be mentally ill; Theo, an apparent psychic who may or may not be a lesbian with a crush on Nell; and Luke, a skeptic convinced that the supernatural occurrences can be explained rationally. These four characters spend time living in this haunted house, finding strange things occurring.

The thing is while it seems that there is something here, we can't really tell to what extent. It becomes hard to determine for sure what is really supernatural and what can be explained. Doors seem to open or close on their own, statues seemingly move when nobody is looking, and Eleanor gradually becomes increasingly obsessed with the house. Is she really the victim of a malevolent presence or are her beliefs merely delusions brought about by mental illness. It is this uncertainty that makes the movie so unsettling.

The house in itself is especially interesting, given the way it essentially becomes a character in its own right. The whole place has this strange vibe in every area the characters visit, even when there isn't any creepy stuff going on. Markway himself notes that the house was built by an eccentric in a very non-conventional way that makes it seem very much like a maze. At times it even feels as though the house itself is alive and malevolent, although given the nature of the movie it is hard to be completely sure.

A lot of horror movies have a tendency to have a lesser impact with age. Often given enough time as technology advances, the effects start to look fake and the movie itself may seem weaker as a result. The Haunting is a horror film that still holds up astonishingly well today, something probably helped by the strong absence of visual effects. Unlike many horror stories, it is not seeing the monster that makes it scary, but in fact quite the opposite. 

I would strongly recommend The Haunting to any horror fan. It is especially fitting for Halloween seeing as the holiday is often associated with ghosts and haunted houses anyway (Markway even remarks that they should be prepared for every night to seem like Halloween). Even if you are not normally interested in ghost stories I guarantee that this particular movie will not disappoint. 

Just do yourself a favor and make sure you see the 1963 Robert Wise version, and not the 1999 remake. That one will disappoint. If you want to know why you can take a look at The Nostalgia Critic's review and it will give you a pretty good idea. Avoid that one if you can, but do check out the 1963 film for a simplistic but clever little ghost story that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

Halloween Horror: The Call of Cthulhu

I've voiced before my admiration for H.P. Lovecraft and his writings. The guy is one of the most influential contributors to the horror genre, ranking right up there with Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King. I could probably do a whole article just recommending Lovecraft stories that would be good for Halloween, but this is a film blog. Lovecraft has something of a reputation for supposedly being "unfilmable", though that hasn't stopped a large number of filmmakers from attempting to adapt his works with varying degrees of success.

One of the biggest successes is arguably the efforts of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. This is basically a group of Lovecraft fans with some extra money and a little bit too much time on their hands (just look at their Solstice Carols, a great way to get ready for Christmas). Among their many projects they have made a few independent low-budget movies based on Lovecraft's writing, and the first of those was based on one of Lovecraft's most famous stories, The Call of Cthulhu.

If you haven't ready this short story, I would strongly recommend it. It's not very long and it is pretty straight forward, which makes it a good introduction to Lovecraft's work and the themes of mankind's insignificance which he often explored. Even better, the story (along with all of Lovecraft's other work) is public domain, which means you can find it online for free. Here is a link to the complete text if you would like to do so.

Basically, the story as written by Lovecraft isn't so much one whole piece as it is a series of thee mini-stories centered around this ancient being known as "Cthulhu" and joined together by the frame of an investigation conducted by the narrator. The first concerns a painter named Henry Wilcox who has strange dreams that inspire him to carve a disturbing bas-relief. The second deals with a police investigation conducted by Inspector John Raymond Legrasse, who encounters a strange and sinister cult in the swamps of Louisiana making sacrifices to "Great Cthulhu". The third and final segment describes an incident in which a group of lost sailors stumble upon the sunken city of R'lyeh and encounter the horror of Cthulhu himself.

In most respects, the movie follows the short story pretty closely, barring a few minor changes. Unlike most Lovecraft adaptations, however, this one takes a slightly different approach to its material. Through a mix of contemporary and old-fashioned techniques (jokingly called "mythoscope" by the producers), The Call of Cthulhu is made to look like an old-fashioned silent movie. The idea was for it to look like it was made in the 1920's when the original story was first published, and in that regard it succeeds remarkably.

It's amazing how much emotion this one film is able to get out of you, given the limitations. The cast (which consists entirely of unknown b-list actors) all manage to convey their thoughts and feelings using virtually nothing but facial expression and body language (and occasionally a title card displaying their lines). However, special mention really should go to the composers behind the movie.

Just like the silent movies of old, the music is a crucial part building atmosphere, given it is the only sound that can be utilized to any effect. Here it does just that, building up an appropriate sense of dread even long before the truly horrifying elements come into play. By the time we do get to the creepier scenes where some of the stuff that is actually scarier makes an appearance there is a sense of fear.

Despite the low budget, the effects are also really good. If you get the chance, I would strongly recommend checking out the behind the scenes feature on the DVD to see how they pulled it all off, since you will find a few interesting stories about the challenges the production team faced and special effects you might not have expected to be special effects. Most of it is done practically beyond a few superimposition techniques used at specific moments, and even the stop motion Cthulhu can be rather chilling (it helps he is frequently kept in shadow).

This one might be a bit harder to find, but if you get the chance, I would strongly recommend you check out The Call of Cthulhu. It is a simple but chilling story with some fascinating ideas and while the movie was obviously made for Lovecraft fans, you don't need to have read too much of his work to enjoy it (though I would recommend at least checking out the original short story).

Best of all, this movie isn't even that long. It's running time is actually less than an hour. If you like this one, the HPLHS also did another film based on The Whisperer in Darkness, which also happens to do be on my list for Halloween Horror, so hopefully you'll see that one some time before October 31.

Halloween Horror: Angel Heart

When I talk to people about horror movies, this is a title that always seems to come up, so it should come as no surprise that it seemed an obvious choice when I decided to start Halloween Horror. Out of the horror films I've seen, Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Fame, Pink Floyd The Wall, Angela's Ashes) is quite possibly one of the most disturbing. It is also a truly unique horror film, as I have yet to find anything even remotely similar in nature, which makes it all the more complex, intelligent, and above all, terrifying.

Mickey Rourke plays the role of Harry Angel, a Sam Spade-esque private eye and everyday man living in 1950's Brooklyn. He receives a new case from a mysterious client named Louis Cypher. The case involves Harry investigating the disappearance of a singer named Johnny Favorite, who has not been heard from in twelve years and who apparently owes Cypher for something he did to help his career. He agrees to take the case, but things quickly spiral out of control.

One by one, people who knew Johnny begin turning up dead, and all the evidence points toward Harry as the killer. As the bodies pile up and Harry faces the electric chair, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to track down the real killer and clear his name. The investigation takes on various twists and turns, and without giving away the reveal, it becomes clear that there is something much darker at play.

If that description sounded more like the plot of a classical film noir than a horror movie, that hardly comes as a surprise. Angel Heart is clearly influenced by the film noir of the 40's and 50's and in some ways functions as a tribute similar to Chinatown. Unlike Chinatown, however, Angel Heart is very much a horror story at its core, even if it uses a classical detective story as a means to unravel that horror.

It is a very different kind of horror film, though. There is gore when it is needed but for the bulk of the movie the horror is purely psychological, and comes in large part from the general atmosphere. The opening scene alone has a very bleak tone to it, but as the film progresses there is an increasingly overwhelming sense of dread, all preparing you for the reveal of the true horror at the very end. When we finally get our questions answered in the finale, we are plunged into the realm of psychological horror the likes of which I don't think I have ever seen in anything else.

The acting is amazing. Mickey Rourke might just have one of the best performances of his career as Harry Angel, and Robert De Niro steals the show as Louis Cypher, who manages to be super-eerie just doing an impressin of Martin Scorsese. In fact, De Niro was supposedly so good at the role that even Alan Parker got uncomfortable when shooting his scenes and allowed him to direct himself. Also curiously thrown into the mix is Lisa Bonet coming off of The Cosby Show, who also has quite possibly one of the most disturbingly surreal sex scenes ever put on film.

In addition to the atmosphere, there is a fair bit of disturbing surrealism throughout Angel Heart. Most of it makes sense by the time you get to the end, but even then this may be a rare case where what you imagine is nowhere near as terrifying as what the film eventually delivers on a purely psychological level. A lot of the fear comes from the little things, where their meaning only becomes clear when you finally learn what's really going on (this movie manages to make the simple act of eating a hard-boiled egg seem disturbing).

Now I imagine like me, a lot of my readers are a bit jaded by the lack of decent modern horror movies. There's been a few exceptions here and there but for the most part we've been getting nothing but generic Clichéd slashers and not a whole lot of intelligent horror stories. Still, that seems to be a common pitfall with horror, which makes the ones that are actually good stand out all the more.

Angel Heart is one of those few really good ones, a truly unique horror film of a very different sort. If you're fed up with modern Hollywood mucking up the horror genre, I would strongly recommend you seek out this 1987 masterpiece. You want true horror, I guarantee, without giving anything away, that this film will deliver, and I still have yet to see anything like it at all. Alan Parker's Angel Heart is one that I would definitely consider a must-see for any true horror fan.

Announcing Halloween Horror!

As Summer ends, fall begins, and what does that culminate in? Halloween, of course, and what better way to get into the spirit of this time of terror than with a few good old-fashioned scary movies? You already know my thoughts on John Carpenter's Halloween (and if you don't, you need look no further than the extended rant I posted for Wendell's Against the Crowd Blogathon), but I know plenty of good horror movies that would be appropriate for this time of year. 

Naturally, I hope to produce a fair bit of horror-themed content. I've been saving the two horror films on my blindspot list, Psycho and The Birds for this period, but what better thing to do than to start up a new feature on my blog: Halloween Horror, which I hope will help all of us to get into the spirit of Halloween.

Up until October 31st, whenever I have the time, I will recommend a different horror film to help get into the spirit of Halloween. Some of them you may be familiar with, some you may never have heard of, but all are going to be great and genuinely scary films. That I can promise you, and if you decide to watch one of these films and aren't so much as unnerved, you can have your non-existent money back.

Each of the films I intend to recommend will be terrifying tales of terror. You won't see any cheesy horror films, no horror films that fail to be scary on such a level that they become hilarious (so I won't be doing Birdemic or Sharknado). I will only be doing horror films that are actually scary, so you should be warned beforehand that none of the movies I will write about for this feature are for the faint of heart.

A lot of the films I'm planning to choose will also be lesser-known horror movies. They won't all be completely obscure. Some are low-budget independent movies you may never have heard of, while others are underrated mainstream classics that, while often recognized as great movies, hardly have the reputation of Halloween or The Exorcist.

I will be your guide as we explore the world of amazing underrated horror. Join me as we experience a variety of chilling tales of terror. We will see horrors of all kinds, ranging from the supernatural to the mundane, from beyond the stars to your own house. These tales will terrify you and get us all right and ready into the spirit of our favorite horror-themed holiday.

Incidentally, if you want to go a few steps ahead and look at literature, I'd recommend reading some of the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe or H.P. Lovecraft. The Cask of Amontillado by Poe is one that is guaranteed to give you a chill or a thousand. Also The Thing on the Doorstep and The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Lovecraft will have you cringing by the end. Very good reads that will definitely help.

While this is not a blogathon in the strictest sense, I am open to hearing what others have to say. If you get a chance to see any of the films I recommend, do come by and post your thoughts in the comments section. If you would like to do your own Halloween Horror, that's also fine with me as long as you give credit. You are not required to take that route, but if you do I'd be happy to read them and maybe I'll even see some of your horror films if I have the time.

I cannot give you any specific figures regarding how often I will make posts for Halloween Horror. It really all depends on how my schedule works out with regards to my classes. I also do not intend to make this exclusively. I will still be posting other content, not to mention I have a special series of blogathon entries coming out at the start of October.