In addition to the usual reviews and comments you would find on a horror movie blog, this is also a document of the wonderfully vast horror movie section of the video store I worked at in my youth.
Hello again. Now I know yesterday I said I was done with Best of lists, but short films have become such a big part of my life in the last few years that I would be remiss not to showcase the ones that really stood to me in 2018. While some of them may have premiered in 2016-17, they came to my attention this year so I'm treating them as such.
Hey all! Let me just start off by
saying thank you to all those that have stopped by over the
last eleven years. Though this humble blog was mainly meant for me to a)
wax nostalgic about the VHS age and b) to stave off writing atrophy,
it warms my blackened heart to know that a few of you out there care
enough to keep looking in.
2018 was a pretty decent year for
me. I picked up two new gigs, one as head programmer at the Toronto Smartphone Film Festival and one as a shorts screener for Fantasia,
the latter of which brings the relief of not begging for a pass every
year. I have further ingratiated myself into the short film
community and even printed up some new business cards!
On the writing side of things, I'm also proud of the anniversary
article I wrote for Delirium magazine about Bernard Rose's underseen
gem Paperhouse. It's a pretty sweet issue, you should pick it up.
I was also glad to visit Calgary this
year and check out CUFF. Frankly, I was enamoured with this fest, and not
just by how brilliantly they treat their guests – I was there screening
The Good Samaritan – but by how well it is run.
Lastly, Blood, Sweat & Terrors, the
third Little Terrors compilation I helped put together is now
available on almost every platform out there. This one is action oriented and it's pretty crackin'.
So now we're done with all the sappy
stuff, things are going to be a little different at this year's end.
No more calculated top five lists. I decided this for two reasons. First, having now shifted my focus to old VHS titles, I realized there was no yearly archive of
posts I could go back and refer to when compiling my Best/Worst of
2018. Second, I finally came to the conclusion...
That being said, I am still compelled to briefly
touch on the media that enraptured me over this past year.
That was my 2018 in a nutshell. You may
have noticed that there were no short films in that list above. Well,
that's because I'm going to dedicate a special post to those
tomorrow. Check back then, kiddies!
