movies

  • Holiday Horror Bingo

    Holiday Horror Bingo

    This year, at the request of the Midnight Monster Club, I adapted the game for the holiday season, replacing any horror movie with holiday or winter horror movies and coming up with festive categories.

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  • Horror and Trauma

    Horror and Trauma

    Horror is a genre about trauma. Whether it is the fictional trauma being inflicted on the characters or the zeitgeist of fear it confronts for us. At Colorado Festival of Horror 2024, I participated in two panels on the horror genre and trauma. Both sessions were so compelling and cathartic for me that I needed to…

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  • Telluride Horror Show 2024

    Telluride Horror Show 2024

    Telluride was different for me this year. Nonetheless, it was a great weekend of horror in the autumn mountains. Until next year, Telluride! Find me with my kids healthy and happy at home next year.

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  • Losing Myself in Media

    Escapism! Losing myself in books and TV shows and movies. As an update, current read: The Fall (book 2 of The Strain Trilogy) by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro current watch: FROM on Epix Give me more. What are YOU reading and/or watching? Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling Like my writing? Check out my books! Followers…

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  • Oh, October. October has always been my favorite month. I look forward to it whisking me away from the misery of summer every year, heavily laden with its Halloween festivities. However, I’m skidding out of this October on my face barely a shell of a person. Is there too much of a good thing? I…

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  • Telluride Horror Show #10

    For the past three years, October has meant the Telluride Horror Show for me. It became our tradition when the Stanley Film Festival left Estes Park to become the Overlook Film Festival. Our tradition has now grown to include more people in our condo each year. I could spout the same euphoric babbling I do…

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  • #31DaysofHorror Bingo, Year 2!

    We’re baaaaaaaack! Last year, I stepped up my #31DaysofHorror (watching a horror movie every day in the month of October) experience by adding bingo to the game. This year, I am returning to the same haunt with a new board, fresh with different horror movie tropes and cliches! Will I top my record of 50 horror…

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  • In the month of May, I participated in the ABCs of Horror Movie Challenge hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Halloween. Each day, I selected a horror movie I had not seen to match the letter of the alphabet for that day. So allow me to share my new-to-me horror alphabet from May. A is for…

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  • 2015 in (Horror) Review

    I apologize for the break in the regular posting. My family and I went to England for the holidays; then I became slightly consumed by writing book #3. I have finally reached the point in the story that has me excited and engaged–murder. 2015 vanished in the blink of an eye. I am officially old,…

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  • Horror Influences

    I have written about it before. I wrote a confession of my past, present, and future readings for Confessions of a Reviewer. I reviewed the Goosebumps movie on MoviePilot. Yet doing both those things has but the examination of my horror influences in my brain. My thoughts swirl and fixate on the horror writings that…

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