#SpookyAllYear

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#SpookyAllYear, Babadook, horror, horror movies, Leprechaun, Live-tweet, Mama, My Bloody Valentine, Oculus, The Midnight Society

Ah! Today is the day…

The fabulous Midnighter Faith McKay has begun this glorious tradition. Go visit the Keepin’ it #SpookyAllYear post and connect to other horror lovers and even write your own post, linking it to her blog. (There’s a spot at the bottom reserved just for you!)

I like horror movies. A LOT!

However, I don’t know other people who do. Well, correction, I know a couple, but they don’t live near me. So I go to the theater alone. I watch DVDs alone in my living room with the lights off.

But it is nice to watch these fabulous movies full of creepy, gory, and altogether weirdness with a friend who enjoys it as much as I do.

So allow me to share a tradition I began to help keep it spooky all year. I started a series on The Midnight Society blog called “Let’s Watch a Horror Movie” where, once a month, I choose a scary movie to live-tweet.

And I want others to press play at the same time. I hope they add their own tweets as we watch TOGETHER! And I always give a hashtag to keep all our tweets together.

It’s so much fun!

I started the tradition at the beginning of this year and have live-tweeted movies such as…

And this month is…

Join me on Friday, May 20th at 9 EST if you dare! Grab your popcorn or movie snack of choice and press play with me. Add your tweets with mine under #ToroMAMA (because #MAMA is full of nice motherly things…I added the Toro in honor of the amazing Executive producer of the film Guillermo del Toro)

As you can see, I like to mix old ones in with new ones, touching on all aspects of horror. And there are so many more to watch! 

So let’s watch a horror movie and keep it spooky all year.

 

The Duality That is Me

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Being human, Hallmark Channel, horror movies, people have different sides, romance movies

If you peruse my DVR list right now, you’ll find a variety of shows. First you have my hubs’ favorites, anything that has to do with searching for gold, Alaska, or cars – reality stuff. There are the shows we watch together mostly sci-fi, action-y stuff. Once Upon a Time, Top Model, Project Runway, and any baking competitions belong to my daughter and me. All the Phineas and Ferb cartoons and strictly my daughter’s. Any weird/scary TV shows are mine.

Once you weed out all the TV shows you are left with movies.

The Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy Krueger haunts and kills kids in their dreams.)

Harvest Moon (A city girl’s dad buys her a pumpkin farm and she finds her true self.)

Evil Dead 2 (Vacationers fight spirits of the dead with a chainsaw and a shotgun.)

All of My Heart (Two strangers inherit a house and fall in love.)

Ominous (A couple resurrect their 6yo son, which turns out to be a bad idea.)

Army of Darkness (A supermarket worker goes back in time to fight with a chainsaw and ’73 Olds.)

Hello, It’s Me (A widow receives messages from her late husband to move on and remarry.)

And they’re all mine.

It’s October, so horror movies are my jam. Sinister is on when I workout now. I just live-tweeted Poltergeist last Saturday.

But there’s another side to me, the uber-cute Hallmark movie me. And right now the channel of cute romance movies is playing all new fall-themed shows. I admit that I am enjoying myself. Within the first ten minutes I can usually tell you what will happen, girl meets boy, everything goes awry, then… BAM… they fall in love. Some of these shows are better than others, but they all make me smile, some make me cry happy tears.

So the queen of scary, dark, and weird has a soft side.

And this is just the beginning. Once November hits, I’ll be watching Hallmark channel pretty much non-stop because…Christmas movies, which start earlier and earlier each year.

Have no fear, come January, I’ll be binge watching horror… you know for balance.

We all have different sides. We all need more than one thing to make us happy. People are complex creatures, so many pieces all fitting together in perfect harmony…even horror and romance.

That’s what makes being human awesome.