20 Years and Onward
(or Yes, I’ve Got a Big Closet)
I opened the door From Zombos’ Closet 20 years ago, first on Blogspot in 2005, then a switch over to Typepad in 2006, and over to WordPress in 2023. At the start, I had two simple goals in mind. Keep it commercial free (no pop-up ads, no links to buy stuff–except my book). Hell, remember those Flash intros to websites? And just keep it fun for you and me as I share my appreciation of the fantastique in film, literature, popular culture, and show off my collection of cool stuff while doing so. ZC has grown to include more than just horror because you can’t really appreciate a horror movie or a book without seeing and knowing a lot more beyond it. I like lots of stuff.
Good, rich, horror genre is fed by life, death, and everything in-between. You can’t create or understand movies or books without knowing what’s come before them and what’s happening around them. This includes comedy, drama, poetry, the classics, the clunkers, and all the other genres too. Creators can’t build on what they don’t know. They can’t create ground-breaking horror without knowing the lay of the land they’re standing on. Fans who only watch today’s horror are missing out on a wealth of terror waiting to be discovered, especially in black and white, especially without sound.
To be a true horror movie fan you need to embrace the old with the new. People who say the best movies were done years ago clearly haven’t watched much. This goes for books too. And music. What would movies be without the Hermans, Morricones, Elfmans, Williamses, Zimmers and others? Recently I read someone’s Reddit post where they referred to the “original” Thirteen Ghosts, the movie from 2001. I bit my tongue. The original is William Castle’s classic fun chiller, 13 Ghosts, from 1960. Dude, what the hell? …
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