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image credit: FOTOKITA Looking for really good horror movies to send my blood pressure up, up, up in dark and sleepy days, I've come across the Science of Scare project, which measured people's heartbeats during special screenings over several weeks in order to find out the 50 most scary movies. Before I present you these films I want to state my utter disappointment and sadness that they didn't ask me to be a test subject in this experiment - I would have gladly sacrificed myself for science in this case... Hear me Science of Scare! As an additional point, on this list there are many movies I haven't yet seen, I was surprised to find out. So, I have been missing out on the real good stuff and call myself a horror fan... I'll shortly pitch some titles in the list, linked as usual to their imdb pages. Sometimes I won't comment a movie at all, maybe because I haven't seen it, don't want to see it or have nothing to say or nothing nice to say about it. ...

From aquatic to cosmic horror to zombie apocalypse to science fictional catastrophes, to top tier weird – Tom Over's writing definitely has a wide range and it's outright scary how effortless and at home he can write in each one of those directions.

  I guess my life would be infinitely more miserable without a few little rituals which help me get through life and help me make it a little nicer - like the candles I light in the evenings. Or the tasty, creamy coffee from that expensive South American café around the corner I reward myself when I accomplish something like a job interview or a translation I kept on procrastinating... The picture of a goofy bull terrier I printed out and have hanging at my work place to boost my dopamine levels when things get stressful... Or the bad weather Saturdays when, after a week's work, I visit my favorite former team-mates Caro and Wolf at the Otherland Bookstore to goof around and talk about books. And dogs. I love these Saturdays, and I was there yesterday again. The thing is that, I also love to review books for the Otherland newsletter and each time I tell myself I won't accept new books, I always, always leave with a bunch of review copies of books I wanted to read anyway. Which...

AAAAAAAAAh! The program for the Halloween Special of Final Girls Berlin* has been published, and I will definitely sell my Blixa tickets, sorry, because not only do the shorts start at 7pm, the feature film is American Psycho at 9pm and I don't want to miss any of it. I might as well take the next day off while I'm at it, hah. So here's the shorts selection for Tuesday October 31, 7pm/19.00h - texts taken from the FGBFF newsletter:

    I almost missed to promote my favorite band's livestream on Friday!

Enjoy the shorties, have a great October!