HORRORPHILE'S FEROCIOUS FIFTH BIRTHDAY!

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HORRORPHILE'S FEROCIOUS FIFTH BIRTHDAY!

August 14th 2011 23:29

I’ve reached a small, but notable milestone: five years of indulging in the Pleasure of Nightmares. Time flies when you’re getting off on movie murder, madness, and mayhem. But I’d like to think I’m doing a little more than causing tenebrous mischief; providing my True Believers - and those newbies eager to peer into the Darkness - with insight, musings, edification, and debate on what I term “nightmare movies”: the horror movie genre and beyond.

I didn’t think I’d still be hosting this “blog” site five years down the track when I first signed up to Orble. I’ve since delivered 987 posts. I’m definitely one of the veteran Orblers now, but don’t worry, I’m not going to go all nostalgic and sentimental on your ass. I could grumble about how little revenue I make (actually, none since I violated Google Adsense’s content policy, bah humbug!), so it’s a labour of love these days. I can hear you say, “Harden the fuck up Horrorphile!” Okay!

I joined Orble on August 14th, 2006. My first piece, Horror – the Black Sheep of Cinema, was posted two days later so I’m marking my fifth birthday on the day in between (or thereabouts). I’ve made myself a Bloody Mary for breakfast, and a spicy one too, with a kick like a Moscow Mule. I’m toasting myself, but raising my goblet to my loyal followers (all 879 of you!), my subscribers, and all those daily readers, for the support. I’m still ranked #1, cheers!

On a more sombre note, it appears we are living in neo-conservative times with regards to the horror movie industry, especially with Hollywood churning out more remakes and sequels than you can shake a blunt machete at, and the narrow-mindedness of censors tightening the morality reigns and slinging more and more nooses around the necks of filmmakers’ artistic freedom. Still, Europe and Asia are championing the hardcore horror movie, and as such the integrity of the genre will survive!

Hell, the concept of the horror movie has been around since the beginning of motion pictures. It even pre-dates both the science fiction and Western genres with the release of Le Manoir du Diable in 1896! Horror is the only genre that genuinely encompasses the purest elements of cinema and embraces the most primal emotions in the viewer.

So fuck that recent bullshit sales and distribution term “elevated horror” that condescends to the filmmaker and horrorphile; horror was horror is horror will always be horror. Anyone who thinks the genre needs gentrifying should be taken out and shot. Or better still, tortured slowly, medieval style, to an agonising death.

Raise your goblets True Believers and chant after me: “Long live the horror movie: our pleasure of nightmares, terrifying, horrifying, and original!

Oh, and a happy ferocious fifth birthday to me!

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Comment by James Rickard

August 15th 2011 00:43

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Congratulations! Doing a blog for five years is nearly unheard of!!!!!

Comment by Bryn

August 15th 2011 02:17

Horrorphile

Thanks James, yes, I'm a rather unusual fish.

Comment by Anonymous

August 15th 2011 02:30

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-always treat to read!

Comment by Bryn

August 15th 2011 02:41

Horrorphile

Thanks Anon, whoever, wherever you are!

Comment by Mr Nice Guy

August 15th 2011 03:41

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Hall of Infamy be damned sir . . . you genuinely deserve a place in the Orblean Hall of Fame.

Congrats.

Comment by Bryn

August 15th 2011 04:16

Horrorphile

Thanks MNG ... *clink*

Comment by katyzzz

August 15th 2011 07:12

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EEEEEEEKKKKK! still the same, wimp that I am, well done, ferocious?...who are you kidding? any of those yet, they'd have a certain horrific future ahead of them.

Happy Birthday No 1, I'm very responsive to numbers, generally the financial ones.

watching out for you at night as the bats take flight.

Comment by Bryn

August 15th 2011 07:42

Horrorphile

Thanks Ms zzz, your fifth can't be too far away ...

Comment by David O'Connell

August 16th 2011 03:23

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You very much ARE Orble to me Bryn - the one reliable constant in this landscape that too few are returning to these days. Hearty congratulations to you mate on your five years of high-quality writing. It's always a pleasure to read your take on horror films old and new and everything else cinema-related in between. May they long continue!

Comment by Bryn

August 16th 2011 06:26

Horrorphile

Cheers Dave! I'm thinking of bugging Jon to give my an Orble medal of some description, maybe a Purple Heart since I got so unfairly stung by Google Adsense.

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