AHHHHHHH!!!IT'S HORRORTHOOOON!!!
TONIIIIIGHT!!!
I've pretty much been winging these contests the past ten days. I thought of the HHD one, like, at 11 pm Tuesday night. I was worried I might have to do a "think of a contest" contest, or just start recycling all the Best Of categories.
However, I've known for days what today's was gonna be. Scream.
Scream, I said!
OH MY GOD IT'S EATING MY LEGS!!!
Anyway, bit of business #1
A big welcome to this year's new members Abduscias and Crystal Math! Always good to see new blood. Thanks for joining us.
H-Town also joined our ranks this year, I think because she won a HHD contest by proxy. I'm not actually sure if she's tuned in. You tuned in there, H? Get in here, woman!
I've also sent an invite out to Cal of Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool, a pretty happening blog that Jordan discovered a while ago. He had a hilarious personal experience with the movie Killdozer, which he shared when I posted my extremely late review of it last week. I'm hoping we hear from him too.
Bit of business #2
Haiku contest winners!
Here are my favorites:
Johnny Sweatpants
Weird guy wants me dead
Well of all the rotten luck
Stupid car won’t start
I love how clueless the narrator is. "Weird guy." "Well of all the rotten luck." Dude just doesn't get that he's in a horror movie.
DCD
Don't go in there? Why?
It's just an abandoned shed
with sharpened farm tools.
Abandoned, yet the farm tools are sharpened. Such a subtle choice of cliché.
Catfreek
Girl causes bad thing
all friends die protecting her
girl lives makes sequel
Ah, yes. This bit of devilish math often irks me. "Hoy! Michael Myers's niece! Just jump onto that knife and save several dozen people lives already, you selfish bitch!" I mean, wouldn't she be suicidal anyway?
But the winner is AC for the following little gem. Every line of this is gold, especially the middle one.
aw, it's just a cat
can't believe i was so scared
now i can relax
Woo hoo AC! Way to win the only Countdown to Horrorthon Contest that was actually a contest!
Other bit of business #3
It's almost midnight on Thursday but I'm planning on posting a few more things. I'm going to stick them below this post, so please scroll down. September 30th is often a busy day in general, since we like to keep October a review-only space. There may be a bunch of new posts. So let's hear some chatter.
Other bit of business #4
What else... what else... Oh yeah! Screaming!
IT'S FUCKING HORRORTHON TONIIIIIGHT!!! AT GODDAMN MIDNIGHT!!!. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo...ooo.
Seriously, how cool is that, starting at midnight on a Friday night? What a great weekend to come! (Actually, I'll be working Saturday, but I can't ever watch horror flicks in the daytime, anyway. And hey, money.
And I'm gonna stay up late anyway. Like I've been doing for this whole countdown. Man I love Horrorthon.)
Last thing: I want to say thanks to all of you for getting ready with me these past ten days. The response has been very gratifying, and, well, let's face it: we're a fun group. This is going to be good.
So that's it. Go into the comments and scream your head off. If you can think of a horror movie quote that's also a scream, all the better.
OH MY GOD IT'S A GIANT AAAAANT!!! OOAARRGGH! ERK! GLK!
