Welcome all!!!

Hey everyone, I'd like to welcome you all to my new Horror Movie Review blog!!

I've been watching horror movies for as long as I can remember.  My first memories of watching them was on channel 11 out of St. Louis.  Every Saturday at, I believe, 11pm they'd have the Saturday Night Shocker.  It was usually an older, pre 70's horror flick, pretty tame by todays' standards, but I gotta tell ya, it was enough to send this little boy and his great aunt running into the hall to hide from the TV on more than one occasion.

Even though they scared me, I continued to watch.  I endured the teasing from my parents and brother, and now my wife, because I was terrified of the Abominable Snowman in Rupolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 

Eventually I got over my phobia or the horror movie and graduated to a fan of the genre.

I became ravenous for knowledge about horror films.  I wanted to know all about them, who starred in what, how many versions of Frankenstein were there, what were these Hammer Movies I had heard about.  Every book that my school library had about horror films had my name on the checkout cards more than once. 

Up until I was 10 or so my only outlet for these great films were the showings on channel 11 and books from the library, but in 1983 my family got our first VCR and rental locations started opening up.  All kinds of horror movies, especially ones from the late 70's and early 80's were available, and I discovered a new type of horror film.  Gone from production were most of the suspenseful, classic style of horror movie, this was the era of the Gore Movie!!!  It seems people were so unaffected by the classic horror film anymore that the industry proceeded to gross out the viewers.  It worked, but it wasn't for me, again I returned to running away, it would be another 6 years or so before I would finally see the great gore classics of the early 80's.

 By the time I was 16, all of my friends were talking about the Friday the 13th movies, Halloween and others and I decided I had to see them, and again I was hooked.  These new gory movies weren't so bad.  Some of them had great suspenseful moments like the older classics, and some were just plain bad.  However even the bad ones had their moments.

It was around this time that I decided I had to see as many horror films as possible.  I devoted a lot of time and money from my part time job to either recording or purchasing as many horror movies as possible.  I have to tell you, it wasn't long before I had a sizable collection of video tapes built up.  Luckily we now have DVD's and the age of the Video Tape has passed.  My collection continues to grow with both classic and newer horror movies.

As a side effect of this collecting horror films, I have an inordinate amount of useless horror trivia floating around in my head, and at the suggestion of a good friend and fellow horror buff, who regularly picks my brain for good zombie movies, or horror movies with a certain parts of the female anatomy present in an undressed state in them, I have decided to create this blog.

I will review both classic and new horror films and all in between.  Expect a new review hopefully every day.  I'll try to bounce from classic, to new, zombi to vampire, and mix it all up, and hopefully you'll discover a few favorites of your own.

Please feel free to comment, or if you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed before you rent, watch or buy it, let me know and I'll try to fit it in.

I hope you enjoy my reviews, I know there are a lot of review sites out there, hopefully this one will become your favorite.

So tell all your friends and fellow horror movies buffs and let the fright begin!!!