Tag: Dracula

The 31 DAEs of Halloween 2025: Deep-Dive Dispatch #1

Posted on by Eric

After at least seven years of blog proprietorship and attendant stonewalling, my 31 DAEs of Halloween marathon finally launched in 2022. Affectionately if inadequately recapped a few posts south of here, it proved such a rousing personal success story that it almost immediately became a budding annual concern, one for which I find myself literally waiting with bated breath for the remainder of each year. October was already my favorite month bar none – the convergence of football, weather, and horror movies is located at the very apex of my happy place – and what better way to celebrate it than with gluttonous self-indulgence, a guided tour of the many and varied delights the horror genre has to offer? Continue reading “The 31 DAEs of Halloween 2025: Deep-Dive Dispatch #1” →

The 31 DAEs of Halloween 2023: Deep-Dive Dispatch #1

Posted on by Eric

Last October marked the happy procession from conceptual daydream to reality of my personally curated month-long horror movie festival, “The 31 DAEs of Halloween”. 31 days, 31 movies, or so the theory goes. A heady mix of old and new, gristle and goo. I had such a blast with the whole thing, even during some particularly trying personal times, that I resolved then and there that the fest should become an annual occurrence. I even marked the occasion by pounding out a bare minimum writeup of notes for all the movies on the program that would also serve as one of my first posts in a year. I was happy to have the record of what I watched for posterity, but that’s really all the 2022 post was good for. I knew I could do better Continue reading “The 31 DAEs of Halloween 2023: Deep-Dive Dispatch #1” →