about horrorlad

hello! i'm ezra (aka horrorlad), aaand this is my website! i'm a lifelong horror fan, and i just wanted a place to talk about the genre and the things i love (and don't love) about it somewhere. down the line, i'd love to do video essays, buuut i have a small child and a job and stuff so for now regular essays will have to do!

some of my horror favorites

Movies:Event Horizon, Grave Encounters, Sick Nurses, Candyman, Silent Hill, House of 1,000 Corpses, The Thing

Podcasts:The Magnus Archives, Alice Isn't Dead, The Black Tapes, The Silt Verses, Old Gods of Appalachia, Ghost Wax

Books / (Web)Comics:A lot of Stephen King, Body Shocks (edited by Ellen Datlow), Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer), Everything Is fine (Mike Birchall)

TV Shows: Twin Peaks, Marianne, Midnight Mass, Darknet, Masters of Horror, Fear Itself, Archive 81, Hannibal

Anime/Manga: Paranoia Agent, Paprika, Uzumaki (Junji Ito), Chainsaw Man (Tatsuki Fujimoto)

Video Games Omori, Until Dawn, World of Horror, and the in-browser game tie in they had on the website for The Grudge back when that first came out

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what i'm into:

i'm a big fan of body horror, surreal/absurd stuff, scifi horror (particularly biopunk, which there should be more of??), and formula-breaking slashers.





thanks for stopping by!