Hard to believe it, but this marks the 1,000th time I've clicked that ol' "New Post" button and sat down to write. In honor of this most momentous occasion, I've taken a little traipse down memory lane, and after looking back on the previous 999 posts, I would like to share with you some of which I am moderately proud...
From the Retro Review files, I bring you my experience watching Friday the 13th with Betsy Palmer, as well as my writeup of the amazing Theater of Blood, fast becoming my all-time favorite movie...
- Payola in the Age of Blogging--this one certainly got people talking (and slowed down the stream of screeners in my mailbox)...
- The Zombie All-Star Team! This quaint little post is the one that started it all in a way, bringing the VoH to the attention of Bloody-Disgusting...
- As part of this year's Psycho Semi-Centennial celebration, I look back at a certain fella named Arbogast...
- I got particularly worked up into a tizzy over the recent Gorezone blog-bullying controversy--here's where I weighed in most indignantly...
Never let it be said that B-Sol doesn't like making lists. Here are the top 10 Most Overrated Horror Movies, Scariest Pro Wrestlers, and Most Favorite Characters. And, for good measure, last year's blistering Top 25 Most Awful Horror Movies of the Decade...
- Want to know what I'm afraid of? This little two-parter delves into what makes B-Sol quake in his loafers...
- I certainly like putting my slack-jawed mug out there with the vlogs, eh? Here's a Halloween vlog featuring me on the verge of death, as well the lovely Zombelina's debut...
The poignant tale of my three-year-old viewing Return of the Living Dead. Hankies at the ready...
- From last year's Quarter-Century of Krueger blow-out, I give you a chronology of the "life and times" of Freddy...
- For some reason, I enjoy doing these long, multi-part history pieces. I think it's the obsessive compulsive in me. Anyway, here are a couple over which I slaved abundantly...
A History of Horror Movies
Part 1: The Silent Dead
Part 2: Gods and Monsters
Part 3: It Came from Hollywood
Part 4: The Times, They Are A-Changin'
Part 5: Blood and Guts
Part 6: From Postmortem to Post-Modern
Part 7: Gore Goes Mainstream
40 Years of the Modern Zombie Movie
Part 1: They're Coming to Get You
Part 2: No More Room in Hell
Part 3: Kicking Ass for the Lord
Part 4: Don't Say the Zed-Word
- I thoroughly enjoyed The Mist, and here I courageously defend it!
Remember that time I went to the Cloisters Museum for a very special Visceral Visionaries? Yeah, me neither.
- The very first edition of the ill-fated Horror Movie Makeover, in which I re-imagine The Godfather...
- How about a little thing called the Cyber-Horror Elite? What a bunch of know-it-alls. Relive the glory as we regale you with our choices for the Horror Canon, the Greatest Horror Literature, the Greatest Foreign Horror Films, the Greatest Horror Films of the Modern Era, and the grand daddy of 'em all, The 50 Greatest Horror Films of All Time...
Teaming up with Day of the Woman's BJ-C, the Mrs. King to my Scarecrow, to recount the 20 hottest women in horror history...
- Debating the eternal question of Horror vs. Thriller with Marilyn Merlot, my muse of mayhem...
- I sure had a lot of fun ripping Hatchet to shreds. Still, my love for High Anxiety knows no bounds, and damn, did I love Moon, or what?
- An insider's look at See No Evil, from someone who worked at WWE and had to pretend he liked it...
- Ah, the Cannibal Holocaust Live-Tweet. Good times.
Nine long years ago, I dragged my wife on a pilgrimage to the Monroeville Mall. And took pictures. Experience the majesty here, here and here.
- This one's fairly recent, but I think Zombieland Through the Decades turned out pretty keen, don't you?
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Thanks for bearing with me for today's bit of self-indulgence! And while I'm at it, thank you, dear readers, first and foremost, for putting up with me at all! Without you, the Vault of Horror would be one lonely place.
Thanks also to the countless excellent bloggers who have made me one of their own, and especially the folks who have been a direct part of the Vault at one time or another, including BJ-C of the VoH's sister-blog DotW; Marilyn Merlot, who helped come up with the idea in the first place; Paige, the Vault's newest and most prolific guest; RayRay; Katiebabs; Nos; Andre Dumas. Thanks as well to Amanda Norman for the Vault's smashing new banner, as well as Wes Cavins for the previous one; to HorrorSquad's Brad McHargue for the redesign tips; and to Christopher Zenga & Rhonny Reaper for the portraits of yours truly which have adorned this space. Thanks to the many guests who've joined me thus far in the Vaultcast, and to Mr. Brad Miska of B-D for helping immeasurably in making people aware this site even exists. As a matter of fact, thanks to all who have continuously supported the Vault on Twitter, Facebook, and yes, even MySpace.
And of course, as ever, many thanks to Mrs. B-Sol. She may not always understand this whole obsession of mine, but she puts up with the countless late nights and incessant flow of depraved cinema like a champ, and I love her for it.Carry on!