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For years on my Facebook and later my previous blog, inspired by a similar effort with horror comics from reviewer Linkara, I would do a whole month dedicated to horror movie reviews. I liked doing it because it allowed me the opportunity to watch a variety of horror movies.
However, I’ve since come to realize my style of reviewing was… primitive compared to the advanced reviews I’ve come to like. And during the last year, I lost the will to really write reviews like that. I had more fun with the more looser, stream of consciousness TV reviews as of late, and I felt I could potentially do better analysis than my long form review format allowed.
I was considering continuing the tradition of horror movie reviews this year on my shiny new Medium page, but I felt that the standard “Intro, synopsis, good, bad” reviews I was doing wouldn’t translate well, and weren’t really the type I enjoyed doing anymore.
Then, suddenly, I had a thought while I was browsing Disney+: What has had over 30 seasons, and in each of them, a horror themed anthology?
Probably don’t need to introduce what the Simpsons is. Sufficed to say, it is one of the most influential works not just in animation, not just in comedy, but in culture in general. While it has… lasted longer than ever could’ve been ever imagined when cartoonist Matt Groening…
