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I’ve seen this tag kicking about on Youtube and WordPress over the years. From what I can see, and credit this tag to, is The Monkey Is In who posted this on their site back in 2015, having taken these questions from Blood Bath and Beyond on YT.
What is the first horror movie you remember watching?
Ummmm, I think it would have to be: A Nightmare on Elm Street. I must have been very young, not yet double figures in age, and was told explicitly by my Mother to go to sleep because she would be staying up late watching movies that would scare me.
Admittedly, I did fall asleep but later woke up and decided to take a peek at what she was watching and:
Ta-da! On the screen was Freddy – the literal stuff of nightmares. Safe to say, it shit me up and I learnt my lesson to listen to Mom when she says go to sleep.
I’ve, obviously, grown up since then and found a deep love and appreciation of horrors in both film and literature.
What is your favorite horror movie?
Easy, Halloween (1978) has universal acclaim as a modern horror for a reason. My little sister was genuinely quite scared of this when she was younger; simply playing the creepy music would set her off.
I’m not sure if she still feels that way as an adult but irregardless, Halloween will always be one of my classic choices.
What is your favorite horror movie genre?
Slashers, hands down without a question.
What genre scares you the most?
Folk horror gets to me a lot and good paranormal fiction but I don’t think it translates to screen well.
What is the last horror movie you watched that actually scared you?
I couldn’t tell you. It’s been such a long time since any of the recent horror movies have left me with a scared feeling 😦
[Although for those of you reading this, if you have a recent horror movie that has given you that scared feeling, drop a comment with rec!]
Who is your ultimate scream queen?
I think Jamie Lee Curtis with Neve Campbell a close second
What’s a concept that you’d like to see in horror?
I think I’d like to see a successful transition of Lovecraftian fiction to movie – I want to see if an existential horror could be done successfully and give me the creeps, in the way reading it does
What is your favorite on screen kill?
Take your pick of kills from the Final Destination franchise.
Tell me, can you see a sunbed without thinking of that scene? No, me either.
What’s your favorite horror franchise?
Halloween, duh.
Nightmare on Elm Street is a close second though.
Who’s your favorite horror director?
If we are talking classics then Terence Fisher. Fisher directed a lot of Hammer Horrors which is what I grew up watching. Modern horror directors? Wes Craven, an incredible director with an incredible catalogue of titles credited to him.
Ahh this was so much fun – I hope that you all enjoyed reading this as I did answering them. If you are reading this and have found yourself answering along to these questions, then take the Horror Tag on yourself! If not now, in Spooky Season, then when?
Blessings,
Em x
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