F.A.Q’s

1. Who are you?
Me? I’m just a girl. I like scary movies, a lot. More than my friends do, it seems. I wanted a place to talk about the movies that I love, so I started a blog.
In more detail, I’m in my late twenties. I live in NJ and work in NYC. I’m in merchandising at an art-supply store. I’m also a freelance artist. I went to college and have a degree that I hate. I have no professional film background but I think that I can dissect media well enough to at least put this out on the internet.
2. What’s a “scarina?” How do you pronounce that?
Scarina is something I invented. I wanted to riff on popular movie-hostesses like Elvira and Vampira. Take the word “scare” then add “eena.”
3. What does that title even mean? Redundant much?
Yeah. I’m a huge fan of Jhonen Vasquez and Roman Dirge’s works, especially their comics. So I’ll admit, I was consciously emulating their controlled-randomness when coming up with a title. Mostly, I was thinking, What would be the name of the horror t.v.-show that’s on in the “Invader Zim” universe? What show would Nny hate?
4. Uhm, there’s a lot of pink? Why pink?
I like pink. Black is such an obvious creepy color. But I think something that looks sweet and innocent but turns out to be horrible is way scarier than something obviously bad. This is reflected in the creepy-cute aesthetic of my artwork as well.
5. Where’s the banner picture from?
It’s currently a screencap from my favorite scene in Silence of the Lambs.
6. How do you choose what movies to watch?
I watch what I’m curious about. Plus, I bought one of those Mills Creek Fifty-Movies-for-Twenty-Dollars sets as blog fuel. The running joke with my friends is that there are a lot of good movies that I haven’t seen, like The Godfather, but I’ve seen five movies by Bill Rebane.* I’m not the first or last voice on horror fandom. There are a lot of scary movies I haven’t seen but I look forward to seeing them.
*For the curious (Or masochistic), these are Monster-a-Go-Go, Giant Spider Invasion, The Alpha Incident, The Cold, and The Demons of Ludlow.
7. How do The Besties get chosen?
You vote for them. I don’t choose them at all. Frankly, people have chosen some movies that make me question my abilities. I gave A Serbian Film a quietly-dignified review, trying to take away all the bombast associated with it, but people still like my review of A Bucket of Blood better? The hell?