2020 Plans

So for 2020 I have decided to put a ribbon on various horror films that left their indelible marks on me as a fan for as long as a live. This blog, as many blogs and podcasts all over the world, and in this country of United States, wouldn’t be around if I (or perhaps you reading this…) wasn’t that teenage kid who slipped into certain rental stores in the 90s or was up at night watching horror films (whether cut or otherwise) whenever I could. I wanted 2020 to be sort of my final say on the matter in regards to films that I grew up with, the ones that have been mentioned some or often on the blog. Sort of a last gasp and allow that to be it as far as this blog goes. Because fresh content after 2020 (if I’m even around by that point) is just a must in order for this blog to ever survive, I figure. And I can see that the blog has its peaks and valleys, not comparable to my peers, but I am happy when a post/review/write-up happens to catch on somehow.

While at work I was thinking about Friday the 13^th and its sequels as a starting place because as a youth, I would actually watch these with my friends late nights during birthday parties! Later the films were mainstays after recording them VHS to VHS (most of the Friday films didn’t have the restrictive Paramount discoloration) on cheap tapes during summers. It was only the last ten years or so that I really didn’t watch them unless there was another Friday the 13^th. So I’ve got Cunningham’s Friday the 13^th (1980) planned for two viewings this year, the second coming when the next Friday 13^th occurs in March. And I will add something then and that, I hope, will be the end of blog posts about content in the film itself. Other Friday films subsequently will have a final viewing and pieces following them on the blog. I just want to put one final stamp on the series so that I can devote more energy to content that I haven’t watched over and over again although writing about the past loves and influential films has always been fun.

I want to do that with all the films of my youth in 2020 and try to close that chapter. Last year I celebrated ten years devoted to Scarecrow’s Blog from the Darkside and I hope that there is still something inside of me that wants to continue to talk about content that is of interest to me and maybe you, too.