This Time It's Personal: A Monster Kid's History of Horror Memories and Experiences

· BearManor Media · Narrated by B Harrison Smith
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I was a “Monster Kid” and “The Weird Kid, The Horror Movie Kid.” I found out early...horror is always personal.

Now I make horror for a living. It shouldn’t just be WATCHED.Horror should be ENJOYED.

This isn’t some stuffy analysis telling you what’s good or bad. Instead, it’s a tour of the 1930s through the 1980s—a personal account of how the best and worst of this era gave us so many memories and experiences that impacted our own lives. It’s fun...just how horror should always be.

Whether it’s crowds screaming in terror at Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Alien, Dawn of the Dead, Sleepaway Camp, and so many more; or audiences laughing out loud at The Amityville Horror, Prophecy, or Jaws The Revenge—my goal is to show how movies on the big screen or late night cable and home video brought us together. I also examine historical context and its importance to a film’s success and why so many reboots and remakes seem to fail.

IF YOU LOVE BEING SCARED IT WILL BE THE READ OF YOUR LIFE!

About the author

B. Harrison Smith is the writer and director of cult horror hits such as Death House, Camp Dread, and The Special. His first film, the acclaimed true-story thriller The Fields, starred the late Oscar winner Cloris Leachman. Smith resides in Pennsylvania and just finished a family Christmas film starring Sean Patrick Flanery and a monster movie, Where the Scary Things Are. His popular podcast, Cynema, looks at the effects of cynicism on our entertainment and calls for the need to demand better of it.

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