The End of Dr Blood's Video Vault

Yes, it's really the end of the blog this time.

This news will come as no surprise to my readers who have noticed that I've slowed down a lot over the last couple of years and not watched many movies at all. For one thing, I don't have the time or patience for reviewing horror movies anymore, and for another, I've lost interest in movies completely. I could blame it on various health issues that have come and gone, but really it's just part of getting older and growing out of stuff.

I'll leave the blog up as some of what I wrote is funny to go back and look at. In particular, the horrible punctuation mistakes of the early posts are somewhat amusing, and all of the vitriol I poured out on crappy low-budget horror is still relevant. Pointless movies made by delusional people which I really only wrote about because I had nothing better to do. Meh, we live and learn.

So what's next? Nothing really.

Up until fairly recently, I'd still been buying the occasional DVD from CeX, and although I wanted to write a series of posts called "The Joy of CeX", it's just not the same as those fantastic pawn shop scavenger hunts I used to go on. There's no satisfaction from the hunt when you can easily look up whatever you want and buy it from a website. The bargains are there, of course, because DVD and Blu-ray are almost dead as a format. Hell, the entire movie industry is pretty much dead now too, or if not dead, it's certainly extremely poorly and ready to kick the bucket at any time. There's nothing relevant for anyone my age. In fact, there's very little which is relevant for anyone over 18 now. It's mostly a lot of misguided, preachy, virtue-signalling, political crap which is so poorly disguised with feeble "storytelling" that only the very foolish still buy into it.

Having said that, I don't even watch the older movies I collected, they just sit on my bookshelves as a reminder of this great time-wasting folly. Same with the books I will never read and games which I never play.

So yeah, that's it. Nothing more to see here unless I change my mind again one day. I can't really see it happening though. There's no money to be made from any of this. In case you missed it, the magazines are slowly disappearing, and the big name blogs (which have never been acknowledged by normal people for having any credibility) are apparently e-begging. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and all those Patreon pan-handlers can fuck right off. If you really want to pay "idiot tax" to a bunch of people who don't care about anyone except themselves, go ahead, but I'm not falling for it.

The whole "scene" is now an even bigger pile of cliquey shit with nothing but the really shitty people left in it. When they aren't cross-promoting each other, or falsely playing the victim while bullying and inciting witch-hunts against anyone who challenges their brainwashed opinions, they are regurgitating the same old nostalgia crap as clickbait. It's pathetic and boring. The rest of us, the good people who've seen the light, have kicked the dust of this crap off our feet and moved on.

Later, gators.


Update
Photobucket is holding everyone to ransom over third-party image hosting. It looks like they finally did what all the trolls, haters, psychopaths, bullies, and pathological liars couldn't do. They killed my blog.

I have a cunning plan

As you may have realised, I've been neglecting "The Vault" itself for months now due to not really having any interest in rewatching all those older films again.

What I intend to do, for the rest of August, is publish capsule reviews of everything which I haven't covered. That means two or three posts each day where I just comment briefly on the classics.

I'm still going to be writing longer reviews and featurettes of new movies but I think we are all familiar enough with the older movies now that I don't need to go into much detail about them.

Of course, like any great plan of mine, this is bound to change once I get bored with it but we'll see how it goes.

The return of the Video Vault A-Z!

It's been a long time coming but I've finally reached the stage where I can now rewatch every horror film in my "Video Vault" and review them. That means that I will probably be posting a couple of reviews each day in alphabetical order all the way through the Spring and Summer.

Although I still haven't really completely finished the "New Reviews" section of this blog, I'll add the dozen or so that are left at weekends when nobody is looking. As far as I know, the only new horror film to watch out for this year is "Scream 4" and I'm done with that franchise anyway.

Way back in October 2006, my site was featured by CosmoGIRL (of all things) in their "cool websites" section. They wrote:

"In light of the horror season, we thought Dr Blood's Video Vault was another exciting time killer (hehe). This site is designed to pack you full of horror knowledge, including how to survive scary situations based on films. It offers film reviews, interviews and downloads, with a quiz to test how much you really know about scary movies. It also provides an A-Z list of the best-known horrors, so you'll know exactly what to rent for your scary sleepover."

Well, I'm obviously a long way from achieving my former glory with what I've done on Blogger so far but, hopefully, by Hallowe'en 2011, everything will be back to how it should be.

Some entries in the Video Vault will probably be moving into other sections on this site and a few more will take their place. Tastes change as you get older and nostalgia is something to be very wary of. Horror films that I used to like are probably pretty tame in comparison to what I have been watching recently.

I want you to leave me lots of comments about whether or not you agree with what I have to say. Remember that I do this for free, I don't make any money from this site, and, basically, it's all just my sick and twisted hobby.

Now, let's get bloody!