jaythestingray

Hey everyone. My name is Jason AKA jaythestingray but you can call me Jay or whatever you want really. Well I will start with a brief history of my love of horror. I am a long time fan of film. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Horror has always been my favorite genre and a big part of my life ever since I was quite young. Even before could watch the movies I enjoyed watching the trailers on television. Some of my favorite movie trailers of that time were ‘Child’s Play’ and ‘The Offspring’. As a young child I was forced to watch “age appropriate” horror. Usually these were the PG and PG-13 films. When I was around 10 years old or so I was able to ride my bike to the local video store and pick up movies on my own. None of the video stores would rent me anything R rated at that age but I found a lot of these films that I also liked. ‘The Gate’, ‘Critters’, and ‘Tremors’ were some of my favorites of these and are still favorites in my collection to this day. Maybe a year or so later I was given the go ahead to rent R rated films and I was like a kid in a candy store (quite literally). Then came the “core” horror films that shaped me into the huge horror nerd I am today. ‘Friday the 13th’, ‘The Exorcist’, ‘Night of the Demons’, ‘Halloween’ & ‘Ghoulies’ were among my favorites when I was a kid. I really miss the video store atmosphere. It was something special that was just an all around fun time for me. Many weekends were spent with 5 VHS rentals for my $5 allowance, friends, and junk food. Those were the days. That is probably the reason why I still love horror so much these days. When the stress of life is bearing down on you, just pop in a cheesy horror flick and you can have that carefree feeling of a being kid again.

I remained a big horror fan until the late 1990s when there was not a lot coming out in the genre. I went to college and focused on other things and other genres of film as well. I still watched horror but I did not get pumped up about the genre until probably 2003. There are 3 films I credit for getting me back into horror again: ‘28 Days Later’, ‘Resident Evil’, and the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake. All zombie films I know. But after this I started buying all of my old favorites again on DVD. I became active on many horror message boards shortly after. Then I joined youtube and met lots of great people that have enriched my fandom that much more. That is what I love so much about The House of Horror…the people. All of the people that watch and comment and the other members of the HOH crew have all been so great. Thank you to all of you! I am only here to have fun! Thanks to John for starting this whole thing and also a big thanks to Nic for creating the website. I look forward to the future guys!

I always love getting recommendations from people so please let me know if there is a particular film you enjoy.

Stay tuned for WICKED WEDNESDAY!

Jason “jaythestingray”