Just Over a Month to Halloween!
How are you doing? Long time no see! Around here things are quite not-same-old lately.
The last hiatus I took from horror genre content publishing was rather extensive, and I couldn’t find a time when all the variables (read: enthusiasm, energy, and ideas for quality content) aligned like they are now.
My 2018-2021 experiences around the horror social web were nothing to write home about, so I branched out into video game design, as you may know already if you’ve been up to date with my other project going on at Jimminy Studios.
I guess my cinematographer side is too greedy to stay in one genre, so I took advantage of the past several years of disconnect from the horror and Halloween 24/7/365 mentalities that drove me from ‘18 to late ‘21 and got into many non-horror things.
I watched a lot of non-horror and must-watch series, like The Sopranos, Better Call Saul, or The Wire, and old 1980s series too.
One thing horror I got into, and extra enjoyed is that I realized I had come full circle with Lovecraft after decades reading his tales, and got started with the Cthulhu Mythos writers and the tales I’ve read so far are kind of good and highly enjoyable.
Lovecraft is too big of a subject to really be done with it, if he interests you, not just as a writer of weird fiction, but also as a person in general.
Consider all his tales, poetry and articles, the biographies, and the ton of letters. And all this without counting the derivative products, like the Cthulhu Mythos writers and stories.
The one side of Lovecraft I’ve been into lately is his T. S. Joshi biography. Although I haven’t read it for almost a year and a half I’m not done with it. It’s a tome. I’m taking notes and it’s the best biography I’ve read so far, truly exhaustive.
Even if I have been this self-absorbed (I don’t know if I told you, but I relocated to a different place from where I was before) moving to Florida wasn’t something to take lightly and it took me a long quantity of months to adjust (and I’m not sure I’m too adjusted yet, to be honest), even if I couldn’t write anything or do any work for Shock Depot to grow, I had the mindfulness I needed each time I saw or read something remarkable that relates or belongs to the horror genre to star/fav/save it so I can later share it with you.
Streaming services are the bread and butter for a Shock Depot horror content publisher and while I administer and own the website I also fed, feed, and will feed it with content like anyone else, and lately I’ve been focusing on one source of ideas for content that doesn’t cease to amaze me.
First, some background to give you an idea of where my all-time horror (borrowed) knowledge comes from, it comes from Fangoria. So you must imagine that it’s just a sliver (among many) of knowledge of the genre.
I read all the Fangorias from the first issue up to issues from 2005 or so, and while I was doing that, I was taking notes of the movies I thought I wanted to watch, and later went and watched them.
This went on from 2006 until 2012 or so, from then on I got all my knowledge of horror from the web. Thinking vainly that I’d watched almost everything there is to watch from past decades, I kind of stopped inquiring about non-current horror movies.
The thing that changed this wrong notion about myself was Tubi. It has a big bunch of old horror movies and series I didn’t even know existed, and still today it doesn’t cease to amaze me for more than half a decade now.
Among the things I’m going to share in the next month and a half, there are going to be some Tubi horror movie lists I curated from the horror movies I watched since I started using the service.