everyday is halloween!

below is legendary horror/exploitation critic/reviewer/actor joe bob briggs giving a short history of the slasher films.  briggs is eloquent as hell but he elides a couple of details regarding the origin of the slasher films, such as not crediting the writer robert bloch who wrote the novel based on the ghoulish crimes of ed gein that was the foundation for hitchock's great flick Psycho [1960].  small detail but it is the details that matter.  at any rate, briggs, acting here as a TV horror host, as well as a historian of horror movies, is fun to listen to.  i have to caution to my own sorta kinda appreciation of the slasher genre.  which was appreciated recently.  i wasn't a great fan of these movies during their original release dates.  cuz they seemed too sexually puritanical & focused on gory kills rather than the rich tapestry of magical storytelling that makes of my beloved horror genre.  still now i can watch slashers as the artifacts of their age.  & sometimes, after a long, stressful day, a movie whose primary construction is to get all kinds of stabby, can be, dare i say it!, cathartic.  put that in our pipes & smoke it!

boo!