October is here, which makes me very happy because there's usually a horror movie on at any given time. When I was younger I couldn't stand them, but a friend in grad school introduced me to Evil Dead 2, Jason vs. Freddy, and Cabin Fever (which is still rather disgusting, tbh. I'm not much into the torture porn). From then on I was hooked on the classics, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, etc. While the quality does suffer as you go through the series, I think I've seen every single one in those franchises.

Even the newer movies like Final Destination, Sinister, and Ready or Not hold their own as being infinitely watchable. I'm not saying they're winning any Oscars, but for horror fans they're just good fun. Maybe it's because in college I worked in jobs that would have sent most students screaming for the door, but I became acclimatized to blood, scalpels, and ronguers. I also got used to the fact that I was using these instruments on the type of hamsters that were my pets growing up.

The fact that my major was animal science also contributed. In Animal Science 101, the first time we went back to the teaching barns, there was half of a skinned calf waiting for us. We could see where the tendons, ligaments, and muscles all connected and it was simultaneously disgusting and cool.

Maybe it makes me sick, maybe it's not the "correct" response, but I think that also had a lot to do with my slow acceptance of horror movies. Either way, I look forward to October to see if there are any new movies that have made the rotation.