Honored!
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Honored!

This week, my essay on the kitschy horror movie, The Tingler was shortlisted as a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award in the short non-fiction category, and I'm elated and humbled by the support of the HWA for my film criticism, and enormously pleased to appear alongside such smart and creative people across the final ballot. To be honored for my academic work on horror cinema means a lot to me. The Horror Writers Association is voting now, with the award to be given at StokerCon 2025 in Stamford. I'll be there! As noted in a previous blog post, my…
February 27, 2025Posted inArnzen NewsNo Comments
I’m Leaving Twitter/X
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I’m Leaving Twitter/X

Today I deleted all content from my X.com page (formerly Twitter). My motivation is not merely political, or in protest, though of course I am doing that. It's also because I have not been happy with the erosion of the site as a platform for public discourse for quite some time now, and both the newsfeed and the technology have become entirely unstable. The app only worked intermittently on my phone ever since the transition from Twitter to X. The site also deleted my newsletter (through its subsidiary "Revue" platform, which it canceled) after Elon Musk wrested ownership of the…
February 2, 2025Posted inArnzen News, Data+Errata
Screamin’ in the Rain
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Screamin’ in the Rain

I am proud to report the publication of some of my film studies research at What Sleeps Beneath -- a fantastic horror film-focused journal that not only features some brilliant current film reviews and interesting thinkpieces on the genre, but also recently won the annual "Best Blog" award from Pittsburgh City Paper. Right on. My contribution is called "Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler" and in it I compare Castle's over-the-top screamer of horror to one of the most heart-moving movie musicals ever made, Gene Kelly's Singin in the Rain. What's that? What…
December 8, 2024Posted inArnzen News
6m66s — My New Podcast
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6m66s — My New Podcast

Commute to hell each week in this gleefully deranged podcast by Bram Stoker Award-winning horror writer Michael Arnzen (gorelets.com). Often unscripted, always unhinged, 6:66 features the author's twisted thinkpieces, poetic little "gorelets," strange sounds and more in precisely 6 minutes and 66 seconds. My new podcast launched on National Dark Poetry Day -- October 7th, 2024! Bookmark https://6m66s.com/ and get ready to tune in from your favorite podcast platform (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube etc.). 6:66 will be the next evolution of my newsletter, The Goreletter, and I hope you'll listen in and subscribe. If you like it, please spread the…
October 7, 2024Posted inArnzen News
The Balloon (2024)
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The Balloon (2024)

Team S2 the S Pro Presents “The Balloon”USA | 7 mins | ColorDirected by Stephanie SwiftWritten by Michael A. ArnzenProduced by DeJonna WilliamsMusic by Ayça AkinCinematography by Jeffrey SmeeEditing by Scott Danzig and Jeffrey Smee CastRick Dutrow as GuntherJess Uhler as Casey ConnorJacqui Wrae as “Betty”Andrew Nesky as DaddyMelissa Rayworth as MotherRoscoe List as Young GuntherStephanie Swift as Police OfficerDeJonna Williams as Police Officer "The Balloon" is a short liminal horror film (7 mins) that tells the harrowing story of a downtrodden mechanic who lives in a deteriorating paradigm... but there is more than meets the eye when the past…
October 7, 2024Posted inArnzen News