jaythestingray

jaythestingray

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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”

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Pet Sematary Blu-ray – FINALLY!

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So it looks like the underrated horror classic ‘Pet Sematary’ finally has a Blu release date.  Paramount has announced that it will be released on October, 2 2012…just in time for Halloween.  So now we can all look forward to little Gage scaring the crap out of us all in More >

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YellowBrickRoad (2010)

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Directors & Writers:  Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton

Cast:  Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Clark Freeman and Lee Wilkof

Rated:  R

Video Review | Rotten Tomatoes | Official Site 

 

“Independent gold”….The words I spoke after my first viewing of this film.  You have More >

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TrollHunter (2010)

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Original title:  Trolljegeren

Director:  André Øvredal

Writer:  André Øvredal & Håvard S. Johansen

Cast:  Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Mørck, & Tomas Alf Larsen

Rated:  PG-13

Video Review | Blu-ray | Rotten Tomatoes

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That phrase sums up the whole film when the lead character, More >

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Bereavement (2010)

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Director:  Stevan Mena                     

Writer:  Stevan Mena

Cast:  Alexandra Daddario, Michael Biehn, Peyton List, Kathryn Meisle, and Nolan Gerald Funk

Rated:  R

Video Review | Rotten Tomatoes | Amazon

There are some evils…so unspeakable…they will scar you More >

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Violent Kind. The (2010)

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Directors:  Mitchell Altieri & Phil Flores

Writers:  Mitchell Altieri, Phil Flores & Adam Weis

Cast:  Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole & Bret Roberts

Rated: R

VIDEO REVIEW | BUY IT 

This is the new joint from “The Butcher Brothers” (Mitchell More >

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Heartless (2009)

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Director:  Philip Ridley

Writer: Philip Ridley

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy, Joseph Mawle, & Noel Clarke

Rated: NR 

Rotten Tomatoes | Amazon | Trailer

Heartless is another “hoodie horror” from 2009.  This film is More >

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F (2010)

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Director: Johannes Roberts

Writers:  Johannes Roberts

Cast:  David Schofield, Eliza Bennett and Ruth Gemmell

Rated: 18+

Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer

F is one of the most recent entries into the “hoodie” horror trend that has been going on over the past few years in the More >

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Chain Letter (2010)

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Director: Deon Taylor

Writers: Deon Taylor, Diana Erwin & Michael J. Pagan

Cast: Nikki Reed, Keith David, Betsy Russell, Brad Dourif, Ling Bai, Michael Bailey Smith, Noah Segan, Clifton Powell, Matt Cohen, Cherilyn Wilson

Rated: R (Blu-ray), DVD is unrated

IMDB | Chain Letter [Blu-ray] | Youtube More >

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High Lane (2009)

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Director: Abel Ferry

Writers: Jennifer Johanne Bernard, Louis-Paul Desanges

Cast: Fanny Valette, Johan Libéreau and Raphaël Lenglet

Rated: Not Rated

IMDBDVD | Trailer | Youtube Review 

It seems the “new wave of French horror” is not the head turning phrase it once was just a few years ago. Many More >

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And Soon the Darkness (2010)

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Director: Marcos Efron

Writers: Jennifer Derwingson, Marcos Efron, Terry Nation & Brian Clemens

Cast: Amber Heard, Karl Urban and Odette Yustman

Rated: R

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