Hi, my name is Leslie Rae and  I should be doing math homework, but I'm not (obviously.) Last year was kinda utter shit for me. 2015 didn't treat me kindly. My shitty ex broke up with me the day before valentine's day(like a real winner), I dropped out of school, moved back in with my parents and lost my grandfather a week before Christmas. It was a bad year over all(although there were some highlights, I'm looking at you Mel, Tahni and Neil.) This year I've decided that I've had enough with the shitty times, I'm done with them, shitty times are boring and I just dont feel like doing that anymore, so I've decided that while I'm going back to school(hence math homework) and work on getting my GPA up I might as well doing something productive in regards to something I'm passionate about, maybe it'll help point me in the right direction.

So I sat down and wrote out a list of things I love. Origami came up, as did corgis, baking, crafts, etc etc... but I circled back to the first on my list: movies, specifically horror movies.
I LOVE horror movies. I've loved horror movies since I was eight years old and I watched  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) while home sick from school. I remember the feeling of bile rise to my throat as Freddy stretched out his arms so wide he could scrap the metal fences with his gnarly clawed hands as he chased Tina through her nightmare. I remember being amazed as Freddy dragged her all around the ceiling of her bedroom with some wire work that, to this day, still looks soooo realistic. I remember these scenes and more, but most of all I remember feeling a beautiful mixture of terrified and absolutely excited! The feeling of experiencing Tina's fear while knowing deep down, that I was safe at home, was intoxicating, and eventually turned into an addiction.

Every time my parents and I went to the blockbuster a few blocks away(that's an old sentence, like a great uncle talking about the wild days of radio, but I digress) I would run to the horror section and look at the dvd/vhs covers. Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Shinning, Autopsy, Night of the Living Dead... I would beg my parents, "Please, this looks so gooooooooooood!!!! Please, I know its rated R but but but...pleeeeeeeeeease." My mom almost never budged on this, it was PG13 fares for me. My dad on the other hand... he was a rebel. He grew up watching World War 2 footage on cable TV,"no horror movie was as bad as war", was his thought process. But my friends could hardly ever make it through the films I choose. "Cant we watch A Nightmare Before Christmas?". "But... its made by Tim Burton" was all I ever said in reply.

When I got to the 8th grade I met Caroline. No longer was I alone in my love of horror movies. Friday and Saturday nights were spent in movie theaters, watching the latest PG 13 flicks, and occasionally a Rated R film if her dad felt like taking us. We watched Silent Hill, The Grudge, The Ring, The Village, The Ring 2, Dark Water, The Omen (remake), and soooo many more. Caroline always had a love of Asian culture(especially Japanese culture) so all our sleep overs were spent watching the original Japanese films all our favorite american horror films were copying at the time(a very big trend in early 2000's horror you'll notice). It was amazing. Even my friends that didn't like horror still loved me enough to watch horror with me. My wonderful friend Suzanne(now married and mother) watched MANY horror movies with me that nearly made the two of us ill(Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake effected our 15 year old sensitive stomachs rather harshly) and I can honestly saw that I've never dated anyone who hasn't liked horror. Its a large part of my life, to say the least.  
But enough of my rambling!! Its time to get down to business! This is my horror blog, I will be using this blog to discuss all things horror. It'll probably be mostly horror film reviews, maybe some horror book reviews, I'll be reposting horror fan art I see online, and prehaps some updates on horror movies in development and stuff like that. I'm gunna try my hardest to make this fun and interesting(with the fewest grammatical errors as possible.)