Hop on the horror website/blog bandwagon and pretend to be a journalist, too!

I jump on Rue-Morgue and now here if I want to mix it up. Sometimes Dread Central, too. I used to go to Bloody D but that place is chock full o' douche bags. I even tried twice.

I think what it says on Quiet Earth (great name, too) says it all: "Fans first, journalists second". They know how to dig into the right obscure minutiae because they get it. Very little opportunism in the cut of their jib. Much like Pretty Scary.

So Heidi no sigh!

Thanks!

Rue Morgue is awesome.

I don;t even mind BD - I hate their forums, but the news is constant and they post EVERYTHING you'd ever want to know in the horror world.

I just don't see a need for copycat websites now.

And the thing is, it's ALL recycled news. You read the same old thingo on five different sites, and it's all basically rewritten nothingness.

Pretty-Scary rocks, though. You know you're always getting cool new info!

I think all of this is in keeping with the old Hollywood adage "no one wants to be first, but everyone wants to be second".

Horror has be co-opted by the Studios and is now mainstream big business instead of an overlooked and frequently disparaged genre, and everyone wants to hope on board to capitalize on what they perceive as horror's runaway success.

Jessica

Acceptable horror films are also relatively cheap to make, and the rabid loyalty of the fan base almost guarantees they'll make money, even if they go straight to DVD. So if they can canvass the sites and get their movie in front of enough fans, they can start counting box office.

Yay, Dread Central! That's where I came from, before here; though I do still write a bit for them too. They are good people.

Heidi,

A mutual friend introduced me to a really cool girl who's into horror films and filmmaking. I mentioned Pretty-Scary, and she said it's one of her favorite sites, she visits often.

There is nothing else this cool ANYWHERE.

horror is always going to be some sort of money making pot for people and a wagon for people that don't really know or care about it. A certain horror magazine here once ran an article on Beyond the Rave a Hammer horror come back i worked on and when i spoke to the editor he said he'd never even seen a hammer film? I wrote some articles for him and got bull-shitted on many occasions about it being in print, it never did. How the fuck can someone run a horror magazine and not be into horror? The magazine has the worst grammer and no proof reader with a writter friend of mine who left due to his treatment and non wage. ( yes i'm bitter with these guys )

also, yes the large horror sites do seem to have the same shit at the same time, twitch is a good un tho.

I do enjoy Rue Morge radio tho and sometimes the bloody disgusting podcasts are alright, bit long but, alright and funny.

yeah, I appreciate BD for being independent, even now. No one owns them. Dread Central as well. And while Shock is owned by Crave, Ryan is an independent voice.

Rue Morgue Magazine is excellent, the best general horror print in my opinion.

It's the AOL and AMC and mega-corporate sites that really irk me. Us indies already got it covered! don't push us out, man! (imagine me in hippie garb with a protest sign and smoking weed making the peace sign)

And running from vampires on a beach in California?

It was yooooouuuu?

crazzzzy man, crazzzzzy! (smoking reefer to point of madness)