They fulfill roles as writers, journalists, producers, entrepreneurs, and editors, and they’ve always balanced their scales as professionals against the heavy amount of media they compulsively consume. Rising from the unholy birthplace of the blogosphere-and armed by its attendant specialist-level interest in entertainment niches-these three have been around the slaughterhouse a while. They’re the experts you want on your side during a zombie apocalypse, interdimensional rift, or trivia night, with combined knowledge that is suitably supernatural. Rebekah McKendry, Elric Kane, and Rob Galluzzo are more than fellow geeks.

It takes you back to the influential crossroads where you chose to brave a monster instead of hiding from it. Meeting other horror geeks can be empowering beyond common ground, then. Because if he can conquer these fears, maybe the horrors beyond the aisles of Movie Mart can be overcome, too. And so, one by one, and with the aid of an employee unconcerned with R ratings, this kid works his way through the horror section, until it goes from the unknown to the almost too known. And so, this kid shuffles down the new releases aisle, his back to the horror section, afraid to look over his shoulder and glimpse something he can’t un-glimpse.īut with time, those cassettes seem to be the most approachable terrors in his life. And as much as he loves to escape through the window of the TV screen, for all the movies he can depend on to soothe and excite and transport him, there’s one row at the local video store that contains a seemingly endless menagerie of nightmare imagery.

There’s a reason marathons start before sunrise.Ĭonsider an anxious eight-year-old, afraid of everything in his small town. Why would someone fix their attention on something made with the intent of shocking, disturbing, upsetting, startling them? To answer that, you have to start early.

Where does an obsession with horror movies come from?

The many system shock the flood