In an age before YouTube, before on demand streaming and ultra 4k blu-ray releases of classic horror films, your viewing options could be limited to say the least. Sure there were video stores but they weren’t going to carry “trash cinema” and B horror classics. If you wanted to see an old black and white monster flick or some grindhouse masterpiece of exploitation horror, you had to wait until the wee hours of the morning. It was only then that the television would beam all

. This is the year of celebrating women in horror here at 52 Weeks of Horror and, for this to also be the start of Women in Horror Month, we thought it would be good to do something a bit different. There are so many incredible people working in the horror community right now and even more who are pioneers of the genre and true patrons of these dark arts. This month, we’re going to look at some of the more Unforgettable Women of Horror. For fans of the genre, some of these na

Horror hosts are nothing new. They’ve been around since the dawn of television, haunting our sets with bizarre and intriguing ghouls who set the stage for even stranger tales. From the likes of Vampira, Criswell, and Elvira we’ve been welcomed you into their lairs with promises of chills, thrills and outright terror. Like any notion or cultural phenomena, the horror host has evolved. Other shows quickly took to the model making modifications to fit the platform they had in mi

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I never really understood that until I took over the Nashville Zombie Walk. See, back in 2007 I took my family to our first zombie walk downtown along Riverfront Park and it was one of the best outings we’ve ever had. Dressed up like monsters we ran around Music Row freaking out tourists in cowboy hats to a sound track provided by the various street performers lining Broadway. It became an annual tradition for us as important as

Some stories introduce themselves with viral marketing campaigns and cryptic trailers announcing the coming of a terrifying new fright promising to boil your blood and make you scream. For most, however, you have to rely on word of mouth and write ups in ‘zines and websites. Some end up becoming cult classics that change the cultural landscape while others end up the fodder of late night Chiller Theaters on the local public access channel. This is where our story begins, with