As a child I’d stay up late with my older sister and spend the evenings watching and re-watching films like Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Those films, alongside the other horror vhs titles that lined the blockbuster shelves, would scare the hell out of us! As we grew older we could look deeper into some of these movies, which would make a revisit with them a must. Our enthusiasm continued to grow with our beloved horror genre.
Today, I find myself not only revisiting those films but, close to solely watching them. I rarely find my previous enthusiasm in contemporary horror cinema. Yet even this does not stop our family horror moviegoer tradition. It continues to this very day, even if at a much-reduced pace. A new horror film will come out and my sister will call me up and off we go to the nearby theater. An odd shock of deja vu passes through me as a familiar title creeps up onto the theater marquee. Only now it’s a remake. I purchase my ticket online and sit down to watch the film. Only it’s not what I remembered as a kid. There is a different vibe to most of these films now.
It’s now my path in life to bring that same feeling of dread and horror that I remember as a kid back to cinema for a new generation. This is, of course, with the hope that some of today’s youth will see this stuff, grow up and continue the tradition of scaring the hell out of the next generation. This website is dedicated to that idea which flows through all my work. I’m interested in many different mediums and many different genres, but my heart will never stray far from the true horror cinema that I love.
William Rot
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