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horrific nightmares a lot, and I was just

constantly terrified. Kind of in my

junior high years I just started to just try

and find the beauty in it, and just watching horror

movie after horror movie, and just got into the

makeup, and just realized that it could be a

very beautiful thing with such deep emotion, and

just kind of went from there. -Horroregon.net -- which

is a website for news, reviews, and interviews. But really it's just me

finding a reason to get online and trying to collect up stuff. We will touch on national things

if it's something that we find interesting or it comes

to us, but absolutely, 100%, specifically

Portland, and Oregon horror. If you really wear your passions

outwardly and pursue them, there's a large swath of the --

what you consider the average pedestrian, Oregeonian

and Portlander, that will follow you,

and will be enthused. -Scream is for horror lovers. If you are a fan of horror,

you want to read our magazine. We cover classic horror

from the early 1920s, right up to the present day. Measuring up to Fangoria is

obviously a huge deal for us. They have got a long

history -- even just the name itself

carries such a cache. -What makes me Moviecynics.com

unique is that, you know, we're kind of a**holes. We tell it like it is, but

we try and be constructive at least, especially when

working with indy filmmakers. When it comes to

Hollywood horror movies we'll terror those things apart. Especially if they're garbage,

which a lot of them are. -I usually don't go into

interviews unless I'm pretty convinced A) That I"m going to

get something that the readers are gonna want, and B) It's

kind of a personal thing, where it's like, I

want to be enriched. I've turned down interviews

with major horror stars because I didn't feel like I

could learn anything from them. -Since launching

MailOrderZOMBIE.com, I've had an opportunity to

attend like the the Cripticon Horror Convention, Horror

Hound Weekend in Indianapolis or Cincinnati as a

fan, but also then as a podcaster covering

it for my podcast. And then sitting in

on panels as well. And it's been a lot of

fun being able to flash my MailOrderZOMBIE.com

business card and say, hey I'm with

MailOrderZOMBIE.com, can I interview you? And then talk to people like

Tom Savini, Ken Foree, you know, people that I looked up to

growing up when I finally discovered horror

movies full on. And be able to

connect with them, and just thank them

for their work. -I always look at

interviews like first dates. You know, where on a first

date you're with someone, you're going, tell

me about your job. That's kinda what we're doing. And as long as you are

interested and listen -- so often interviewers, I think,

they're slaves to their notes and they're so busy preparing

for the next prepared question that they're missing

all this gold. -And they asked me,

would I go and cover it, and speak to people,

and get a feel for what horror conventions

in the US Are like. In the UK, they tend to be

a lot lower key than this. We don't have the

same kind of madness. We don't have the same

people in costumes. So it's been a crazy experience

for me to be here this weekend, and just see the

level of fandom, and just how much the bar

has been raised in America. -I [INAUDIBLE] pretty hard

recently with Kate Beckinsale, I'll say that. Just because it's Kate

Beckinsale, come on, and she smells amazing. I think I've got

Elvira coming up, which is another

one that you go -- do you want to talk to Elvira? F*** yeah, I want to talk

to Elvira, but after a while you go, oh I get it. There's this

infrastructure in place. We're here to pimp your film. We're here to pimp your book. We're here to find

some stuff about -- the reason that brought

you to the table. -Nine times out of

ten, I'm probably going to have way more fun

with an independent horror film than a Hollywood

horror film. The Hollywood horror film

is catered to teenagers. -I don't care if you

don't have a lot of money. Spend some time on your script

developing your characters, and make them somebody

that, you know, I want to be invested with. I want to spend time with

these guys for, you know, 90 minutes, whatever long

your movie's gonna be. -It doesn't quite resonate

with people that grew up in the '80s, and early '90s,

and '70s, watching just brutal horror movies

that were entertaining, well done and well

put together, but not designed to get as many

people into the theater seats as possible. -If your characters

aren't somebody that I'm going to

care about, I'm not going to care

about your movie, man. I don't care how big

your special effects are, how bloody your

special effects are. Give me some characters

that I care about. -So you find this current

run of PG-13 horror films that are just disposable,

uninteresting, cookie cutter, formulaic. -And don't take advantage of me. Don't treat me like an idiot. I've watched a lot of

horror movies, man. You know, I have

certain expectations to be treated as an equal

here, as a horror fan. You know, if you're

making a horror movie, I assume you like

horror movies as well, so let's go on this

journey together. Don't talk down to me, and

don't give me something that you think I need to

see because every horror movie has it. You know, I like

nudity, whatever. I like the special effects,

whatever, but give me a solid story and give me

characters that I care about. -You gotta have the violence. I mean, tension goes a

long way, but in the end you want that tension to lead

up to some actual violence. You want to see the red

stuff on the screen. I can probably count on my hand

the amount of successful horror movies that, you know,

had all that tension but didn't really

have the violence, and within the

last 20 years, you don't really see that very much. -I've always said that

being a horror fan is kind of like panning for

gold in a river of sh*t, because you go

through a lot of crap. -My name is Nowal, and

I love horror films because when I was

about three years old, my family was watching "Hell

Raiser 2" in the basement. -I really enjoy the blood,

guts, and gore aspect of it. The fact that it

always made my mom scream whenever certain

things happened, and I kind of got a sick

little thrill out of that. -I remember watching "Hell

Raiser" when I was far too young to be watching

"Hell Raiser." -And I love the hooks

impaling the man's flesh towards the end. -I went downstairs and

hid behind the couch and watched "Hell Rasier 2." Nobody noticed I was there

until the movie was over, and at one point I just

imagined something happened and was like, oh sh*t! And then my family's

like, oh OK. Number one, you're

three, don't swear. Number two, you're three and

it's like 11:
00 at night, why aren't you in bed, but

I remember seeing pinhead for the first time at three, and

instead of being afraid of him, I was like in awe of

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