10 more days 'til Halloween. Read "The Worst Place On Earth".

Keeping in the spirit of the month, here's a little bit on my next horror short ebook.  It's actually a title I used once before for a Macroscope post about my love of horror movies that I wrote in the wake of the first time I'd ever seen Eli Roth's "Hostel". 

But the title is really inspired by a feeling, and it was a feeling I had after watching one of the earliest trailers for "28 Days Later".  I've literally searched dozens of times for that particular version of the trailer, but I've never been able to find it.

Maybe it was a nightmare I had after watching the trailer.

But, there's a moment where people are running away to hide from something terrible, but they're running into a deep, dark, wet place that, under ordinary circumstances, they would never EVER go.

I was just struck by the sensation of the awful choice: what's after you is bad, but where you're going to escape it is worse than you could possibly imagine.

It's the worst place On Earth.

And, like any good writer, there's lots of double meanings in that title.  But I'll leave it to you, oh, intrepid reader, to suss that out for yourself.

I mean, at this point, if you're following my writing, you've already gone to Hell.  How much worse can it be? :-)

Right?

Graffiti Quote of the Day

"Repent - The End Is Extremely Fucking Nigh"


- scrawled in blood on the walls of a church in an ominously deserted London, in "28 Days Later", the latest film from Danny Boyle (director of "Trainspotting") and screenwriter Alex Garland (who wrote the far-superior novel version of "The Beach").

This is the scariest English-language horror film I've seen in YEARS.

And I see alot of horror films.

The Japanese film "Ringu" is still, far and away, the scariest movie I've ever seen, but "28 Days Later" is definitely in the ballpark. Moreover, unlike "Ringu" (which was just remade for American audiences as "The Ring"), this film wants to do a little more than just scare you.

Can I also say, it also features Naomi Harris as the most ruthless, ass-kicking sista I think I've ever seen on film. I mean, there is a scene with her and a machete that has to be seen to be believed.

Go see it.

Right now.