How Sez Sees It

A love letter to horror Horror is just one genre I adore alongside fantasy and sci-fi, but horror has consistently been there in my life. Some of my earliest memories involve horror, or things with a horror theme. When I was born in the mid-1980's, and for a few years after, there were regular repeats of things like Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video on TV. I also remember being shown the camp, kitsch and yet horror inspired Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was five years old. Back then I couldn't understand the story, but what I loved was the songs and the horror visuals. Even as a child I could appreciate the power of Tim Curry (Frank 'N' Furter) dressed in a dark cape with black eye shadow and dark red lipstick (like some incredible vampire figure). Like many Children I was introduced to the idea of hunting monsters through Scooby Doo. Not only did we have endless repeats of the original episodes, but we had our own new episodes with the edition of ...

Ok.   I had to get this one out there as I may have been watching too much ‘Walking Dead’ recently but I do often sit and wonder what it would really be like if there was a Zombie apocalypse. I know from the films and TV shows we think of Zombies as dangerous and murdering flesh eaters who are essentially walking corpses e.g. ‘Walking Dead’ style.   In that show they are people who have caught a sort of virus that attacks the brain and kills someone.   They then return to life when only part of their brain fires back up, the basic animal brain, but the rest of their body is essentially dead.   They then head off on a quest for fresh meat and are hell bent on finishing off the human race. I don’t think it would be like that at all.   I think that if most of your brain had turned to mush and a lot of your cognitive abilities had been taken away you would be very laid back.   I think it would be more like being high all the time and you certainly wouldn’t be...