Friday, October 23, 2009

That Time of Year Again

It's almost Halloween and true to form another Saw movie has been released. There's blog up talking about the king of horror movies at http://blogs.amctv.com/horror-hacker/2009/10/saw-most-successful-horror-franchise.php by the FDO, Scott Sigler. I'm not entirely on board with the results, but going by how Hollywood measures success I suppose it represents itself. Even if inflation and rising ticket sales pad the numbers. Too bad there isn't a way to measure ticket sales and the worth of the dollar during the hay-day of the horror flicks we all grew up with versus what those stats are today. I don't think the Saw franchise would even come close, but alas that's just complicated a formula for our peanut-brained society. It's like comparing the sales of the new Star Trek movie versus the original Star Wars release. The new stuff doesn't really compare as far as the type of phenomenon, but there's easy to explain that people so no matter what the new "blockbusters" will always outsell the classics that truly hold the title.

So since it's that time of year again, let's have a little fun with it. How about comments about your favorite scene/s from a horror movie or better how about a vignette of original horror fiction. Hook it up folks. Let's get interactive with this social media nonsense instead of just taking the quizzes that tell us if we'll be rich in the future or what our phobia is by questions that are entirely random and have nothing to do with fears.

2 comments:

  1. So I do not have a favoirte horror movie... they scare me too much. But my favorite Disney Movie is The Lion King ! So if you want to hang out on Halloweeen we for sure can watch it !

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  2. I think getting to the realm of Disney movies on Halloween is a whole different kind of scary. Especially if we're going with the old school Disney movies. "Pinocchio" and "Sleeping Beauty are the 2 most frightening animated movies ever.

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