First, I have sad news to announce: for reasons that will become apparent in May of the upcoming year, I will not have time for my beloved annual feature, the Summer of Blood, in 2012.
Here's the exciting bit, though. Since I love that feature as much as I continually tell myself that all of you do, I'm not just going to throw up my hands and not even try to do any classic horror in the year to come. Instead, I will be celebrating an entire calendar of violent death in my first-ever Year of Blood.
Beginning on 1 January, 2012, and going all the way to next New Year's Eve, here at Antagony & Ecstasy we'll be exploring the many faces of holiday-themed horror by looking at some of the many slashers and other genre pictures to tie their plot to a specific date. Or in some cases, a movie that just has a nice thematic resonance. We're going to get things started with the lesser-known of 1980's two New Year's horror pictures: a Canadian effort starring one of slasherdom's most important stars.
26 December 2011
5 comments:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
That's too bad, your Summer of Blood campaigns are some of my favorite reviews on this blog. The idea of doing an entire year-round horror-thon, though, sounds great.
ReplyDeleteSad to hear about the Summer of Blood, 'twas a great tradition. Long live the Year of Blood!
ReplyDeleteI approve of this development.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this, as I do all of your horror retrospectives.
ReplyDeleteSummer of Blood rules! This sounds like a good trade.
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