While I won't be able to return to regular posting 'round here until next month, there are a few things that will maybe tide you over until then! Or at least this post about those few things will occupy you for the next ~14 seconds, which is better than zero seconds. Well, I guess that depends on what's actually happening during those seconds, no? I can think of a few things that would be a terrible way to spend even such a small amount of time, like, say, watching ~14 seconds of one of those David Gordon Green Halloween movies. Unless they were ~14 seconds that feature em-bang-ened hero Lindsey Wallace, as portrayed by icon/Real Housewife Kyle Richards, of course.
Sorry, I've had more coffee today than I really realized whilst drinking it all, so now I'm going on and taking up more than ~14 seconds of your time! Also, obviously, using both "icon" and "Real Housewife" to describe a woman is redundant. But...on to the things!
THING 1:
I wrote an essay that's included with the recent fancy Blu-ray release of Asian horror anthologies Three and Three...Extremes from Arrow Video. In it, I examine what the loaded term "extreme" means in relation to Asian horror, as well as the ways the represented regions of Three (South Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong) differ in their approaches to horror filmmaking and the supernatural.
THING 2:
Also from Arrow come a new, fancy Blu-ray release of Wes Craven's 1986 film Deadly Friend, and I'm on the commentary track alongside Alex West of The Faculty of Horror, The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle, and mucho more. This might be a UK-only release? Someone start a change.org petition if so! (btw I loooove the alternative cover art so much.)
THINGS 3 & 4:
Of course these are the two ongoing things, my column (and assorted other work) in Rue Morgue magazine and my podcast Final Girl After Dark. Both of these things get me pumped UP! So I hope you enjoy them as well, should you partake.
Hahaha remember those Halloween movies! Terrible.
