Lots of good stuff this week from horror films to TV.
On the 6th, Hannah Searson at 25 Years Later listed her favorite horror films for wimps:
“My list of fears is endless, so Halloween is kind of a nightmare for me. Even more unfortunately, I enjoy horror films. I love their metaphors, their visual style. I love the women at the centre of them, and the gore, and how engrossed you get in the story as a viewer. I’ve always been too scared to watch many of them, though. I spent my childhood reading the backs of DVDs in supermarkets, trying to figure out if I’d be brave enough to watch it, should the opportunity arise. I counted it as a genuine achievement earlier this year when I made it through roughly two thirds of the (admittedly excellent) It Follows before switching to watching the Great British Bake Off in an attempt to purge the fear from my mind (It didn’t work. I still had nightmares that night).”
In honor of the show’s third season premiere on the 10th, Natalie Zamora shared 12 surprising facts about Riverdale for Mental Floss:
“Based on the classic Archie Comics, the CW’s Riverdale takes a darker, Twin Peaks-like twist on characters Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, and Jughead Jones. For one, this show has a whole lot of murder.”
On the 11th, Jacob Trussell speculated about George Romero’s many unfilmed scripts over at Film School Rejects:
“He may have been 77, but he seemed to have the energy of a man half his age. He was still writing comics as recently as 2014 with Marvel’s ‘Empire of the Dead’. He showed up in video games, from ‘Zombie Squash’ to famously being the unbeatable villain in the zombies map Call of the Dead from ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’. Hell, he was even set to return to the world he created with Road of the Dead, the newest installment of his Dead series that was supposed to be a cross between The Road Warrior, Rollerball, and The Fast and The Furious. So, basically, Knightriders with zombies.”
Also on the 11th, Seanbaby at Cracked made a case that Mannequin is the most terrifying of all horror movies:
“How does one define true horror? Is it suffering and slaughter? The dead given life? Is it watching reality itself betray you while everything you love is ripped apart? What about all three at once? I’m of course speaking about 1987’s Mannequin, the brutal psychological horror film disguised as a comedy. This, unprepared reader, is a list of the top 7 lives destroyed by a hit movie about a man falling in love with a dummy who becomes a real woman when only he is looking.”
Enjoy!