Nobody puts baillee in the corner

I’ve been watching horror movies for as long as I can remember. My mom and I used to spend Sundays with junk food and the horror movie marathons on SyFy, back when it was still SciFi. We never missed an episode of Buffy, Angel, or Charmed in the Perkins household. My brother-in-law and I bonded over the Evil Dead franchise when he and my sister were dating. My friends and I used to spend our high school weekends watching terrible horror movies and essentially playing Mystery Science Theater 3000 In short, horror movies have been a huge part of my life. I love dissecting them and analyzing what makes them terrifying. I love discussing the scores with their swelling melodies and menacing key changes. I even love rolling my eyes at how teenagers continue to have sex and get drunk after having watched horror movies and knowing all the “rules.” I am actually watching a horror movie while I write this, and I am planning on some sort of tattoo to pay homage to something that’s been such a huge part of my life. However, like all movie genres, horror movies have their shortcomings.

My main grievances with the genre include the lack of representation of female directors, strong female leads (to be fair, there are some great survivor girls), and last but not least, the lack of female-drive horror blogs and podcasts. By this point, you might be asking yourself where I’m going with this blog post. I’ve made it pretty clear I love horror movies, so I’ll cut to the chase. After much research, deliberation, and about two weeks of working through some basic logistics, I’ve decided to start my own podcast. I’ve been working through some segments, and I think I have a co-host already lined up. I loved watching Elvira growing up because she was this badass chick who loved horror movies and gore and the bizarre, so she served as one of my horror role models. However, there truly aren’t as many women in the horror movie biz as there should be. That’s why I want to start this podcast. I want to have bi-weekly guests, ranging from friends to (hopefully) directors who watch a scary movie and come on the show to talk about it. I want it to be funny and unique and weird and awesome. I want to inspire the women who love the horror genre to step out. I want to create something with my own two hands (and keyboard) that I can say is mine. Sure, I don’t even have a title yet, and I know absolutely nothing about RSS feeds, but I want to start releasing them in June. This could turn into something amazing and it could not, but I’m willing to take the risk. So, here goes nothing…

P.S. I promise to write two posts next week because this is more of an announcement, and I feel like I’m cheating everyone.