Taking a break from the Watch-athon to share an interesting link from Syfy's (sic) news aggregation site, Blastr.
They posted this story about someone's thesis about just why we love horror, how it's encoded in our DNA to face our fears and confront them.
I like the idea, but I think a bigger part of it is that little adrenaline rush to our brain, which is more to blame for it. Once you get past the fear, like I did, that lovely little jolt of energy, oooh.
What do you guys think? Why do YOU love horror?
J
I've been poking the site a bit over the past week or so, and it looks, tentatively, like whatever wasn't meshing between SquareSpace and my browser has been fixed. We'll see what happens when I do my next full review over the weekend. Some testing posted ok, and wasn't eaten by the WYSIWYG gremlins, so here's hoping!
On another note, we're pulling into September soon, and right around the corner is October, which means the site will be celebrating its birthday. I'm scratching my head trying to think of what would be a good movie to do for our anniversary, and just can't think of a single thing that would have any kind of one-year significance. Maybe I'll do a Friday the 13th? Maybe just another Puppet Master? Or maybe just something that looks truly awful in the awfullest of ways?
So I ask my readers, also in hopes of getting more feedback, if there's a movie I'm just not thinking of that would be perfect, or just something YOU would like to see? I've got plenty of movies I hate to love, but if no one has heard of them, that doesn't do much good. My only requirement, and even this is negotiable, is that I'm trying to stick to movies pre-2001.
Hit me!
J
