Halloween Speical? Blow It Out Your Ass!

A lot of you good people will probably know by now that I am a miserable party-pooping asshole who talks shit about garbage can cinema on the internet. You therefore probably expected to be assaulted by a Halloween special, of the kind that every Blog and YouTube channel does at this time of the year. But I am happy to inform all you lovely people this is not going to be the case, and here is why.

Firstly, I live in the UK, and Halloween has never really been a big event in this country, so growing up I never went trick or treating, or ever really saw very much in the way of decorations or celebrations. This led me to essentially disregard Halloween and its consumerist bull.

Secondly, it seems as though this is the one time of year when every signal solitary person claims they love horror in all its many forms. This type of fickle temporary fandom of the horror genre really raises my hackles, because we all know these people who say shit like ‘I’m such a big horror fan, I watch the Grudge remake every Halloween’ couldn’t give two hoots about it come the first of November. This attempt to try and fit in with the herd’s current trend is exactly what horror as a genre should oppose. Horror should never be a safe little fad that everyone pretends to love once a year, it should stand as a giant middle finger to society’s norms and expectations that doggedly plants itself in a dark and dingy corner.

Don’t let horror be reduced to a handful of ‘specials’ every year, all that achieves is to cheapen it and allow it to become some kind of hipster fad that makes us true lifelong fans look like idiots. 

Thanks for reading this short rant, normal service will resume shortly.