It's All in Your Head.

  Welcome back to my blog: It’s All in Your Head. This post will be semi-short and sweet, warming up for what is to be posted in the future. Think of it as…a practice post, getting my typing skills up to ramble longer to everyone in the posts following this one.  Anyways, the topic at hand today is a favorite horror film of mine that I was basically raised on. The Babadook (2014), now a brief summary of the movie is as follows: Amelia a widowed mother and her son Samuel are adjusting to their dreary lives after the unfortunate passing of both a father and husband to their family. The mother and son are in a shared space but distanced from one another both mentally and willingly physically for the most part, Samuel wishes for a mother he had before the grieving process and Amelia wishes for a son with less mental challenges.  In comes a book with the same unsettling title as the movie, this book is something which oddly comforts Samuel before he sleeps- or seems as though ...

Hello and welcome to my blog. If you couldn’t tell, my blog is going to be heavily focused on psychological horror and the many sub-genres within it. What is Psychological Horror? Well, the concept is broad. But usually, this genre is described as being a type of horror that instills a sense of fear, anxiety, or unsettledness in its viewers using its reliance on the darker parts of the human psyche.  Psychological horror often takes advantage of the viewer's possible emotional state while consuming the content, and makes its unsettling goals more prevalent by expanding off of the distress it(the content) causes. My hope for this blog is to dive into some of the different aspects of some books, movies, and series that are considered good representations of this genre. I would like to have the chance to try and educate more people on the value of the content they consume, while also connecting the strong psychology within horror.