Bryn

Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

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"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" --- Edgar Allan Poe

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My flesh and blood ...: I've been a lover of horror movies for more than twenty-five years.

Watching ALIEN on VHS, barely into my teens, and seeing POLTERGEIST at the movies had a profound effect on me. At 13 I snuck into HALLOWEEN II (rated R16 in New Zealand, my home country) ... and I was a fully-fledged horrorphile.

I collected Fangoria magazine for many years. I adore special effects makeup - Tom Savini, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Dick Smith, KNB ... they're legends.

But, to be more precise, I'm actually a complete cinephile. I love movies. But I'm quite fussy too. I don't dig just any kind of movie. As a rule of thumb the kinds of films that I end up purchasing on DVD are of a darker hue ... I gravitate toward lurid dramas, gangster flicks, moody sf, black comedies, action thrillers, exploitation ... and of course, horror. They're my speciality, which is why I thought writing a blog on horror movies was a good idea.

Welcome to my PLEASURE OF NIGHTMARES!
My top 20 favourite horror movies of all time ...: 1. Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott
2. Halloween (1978) directed by John Carpenter
3. Day of the Dead (1985) directed by George Romero
4. The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter
5. Phantasm (1978) directed by Don Coscarelli
6. Profondo Rosso (1975) directed by Dario Argento
7. Videodrome (1982) directed by David Cronenberg
8. An American Werewolf in London (1981) directed by John Landis
9. The Evil Dead (1982) directed by Sam Riami
10. Suspiria (1977) directed by Dario Argento
11. Eraserhead (1976) directed by David Lynch
12. Possession (1981) directed by Andrzej Zulawski
13. Cat People (1942) directed by Jacques Tourneur
14. Angel Heart (1987) directed by Alan Parker
15. Dawn of the Dead (2004) directed by Zack Snyder
16. Dead Ringers (1988) directed by David Cronenberg
17. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955) directed by Don Siegel
18. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) directed by Tony Randel
19. Santa Sangre (1989) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
20. Innocent Blood (aka A French Vampire in America, 1992) directed by John Landis
My filmography ...: * Oneirodynia (horror, 1989, 7 mins, colour, Super-8)
* Rendezvous (thriller, 1991, 7 mins, b&w, Super-8)
* Penumbra (horror, 1993, 30 mins, colour, U-matic)
* Stylus: shoot the DJ (doco, 1996, 30 mins, colour, VHS)
* Firesign (biopic, 1997, 5 mins, colour, Super-8)
* neo-blue (sci-fi, 1998, 20 mins, colour, Hi-8)
* Tattoo (horror-thriller, 2004, 100 pages, unproduced)
* Fruit & Petrol (comedy, 2006, 19 pages, unproduced)
* Venom is a Lady (noir-thriller, 2006, 20 pages, unproduced)
* Stiletto (horror, 2008, work-in-progess)
* 4-leaf clover (comedy-drama, 2008, work-in-progress)

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