abhorsen-and-wallmaker

[abhorsen-and-wallmaker]

Intro: Who we are, and why we're here.

Back in 2012, a pair of twenty-somethings met under extremely strange circumstances and watched a horror movie called "Lo". Just shy of eleven years later, those two lovers of all things film are happily married and still trying to find weird and wonderful films to watch together. That's us!

Being multi-flavored geeks, we pulled our usernames from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series. I'm Abhorsen (34f she/her) and my handsome partner is Wallmaker (36m he/him). Our posts will often refer to us as either "A" or "W" to differentiate sections, although the majority of the blog will be written by yours truly.

So, what are we doing?

W and I were up late one night in August of this year (2023) talking about movies. This was, and is, a pretty common occurance in our house. Somehow, we came to the conclusion that to make up for years of weekend warrior behavior when it came to films, we should watch one movie every night for three months. Since Spooky Season was looming over our heads like a disappointed father waiting for us to fail, we elected to dedicate September 1st through November 30th to horror; that foundational pillar of the human experience that made us fall in love after a single evening together.

I'm the one who suggested we separate the months by theme. While I lean into fantasy and the supernatural, W has a deep love of SciFi. Given that September is his birthday month, SciHorror seemed the obvious choice.

From there we established that classics, gore, and the supernatural belonged in October. We'd spare anything that could "conceivably happen next door with you none the wiser" for November. This would be our challenge for ourselves, and for each other, since we decided that night we'd alternate who chose the film.

How the blog fits in:

We're going to be posting our initial thoughts, theories, and yes! complaints on this blog. We chose tumblr because we were both active tumblr users about a decade ago under other names and this feels familiar & comfy. We're excited about our challenge and the upcoming video project(s), and want to share that excitement with other fans of the genre. Interact! Recommend your favorite movies! In a post-panini 19 world, we could all use a little more interactive fun anyway.

Why doesn't this blog start on Sept. 1st?

This wasn't initially meant to be shared with the world, to be blunt. We'd both hit personal creative ruts and came up with an idea to break out. It was a few days in that I realized we'd both talked at length about making documentaries or hosting a podcast and basically blurted out mid-conversation that we should share our horror film journey.

Neither of us has ever embarked on a project like this before, and we're starting big. Is there a chance we fizzle out? Sure. But we're going to do our best and take everyone that wants to come along for the ride.

- Abhorsen "A"