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.

Happy Hallowe'en and Goodbye!

Happy Hallowe'en! Tonight's the big anticlimactic night so it'll be eleven months before anybody has to endure another batch of seasonal horror fans.

As usual for Hallowe'en, I'm not going to be watching anything horrific at all apart from "Bring It On" (2000) starring the delightful Kirsten Dunst from "Interview with the Vampire" (1994), Eliza Dushku from "Wrong Turn" (2003), and Jesse Bradford from "The Echo" (2008). Apart from "Clueless" (1995), this is truly the greatest movie of all time.

It's been one of the worst years for horror movies ever, and with the genre now completely dead (both creatively and physically), I'm not going to be updating my blog anymore.

I could, of course, continue to review all the old horror movies which I already love, but what's the point when a million other sites with nothing new to write about are doing the same thing already? I'd rather just watch films from now on than waste my time writing reviews which hardly anybody reads anyway.

I'm done here. Just like Barry Norman, I'm walking away from all the bad movies and the poor taste of the audiences who continue to support them.

I thank you all for reading and commenting over the years but, after 17 years as a horror journalist and 15 months as a blogger, I'm moving on to something else now.

I'll see you in another life when we are both cats.