Updates, Quotes, and Summer Horror Movies

Fast Updates:

Wishing you all a safe and happy September! We had a blast at the event in August and are looking forward to the upcoming shows.

From September 13th through 20th, The Warning Signs: Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy (Kindle edition) will be available at a discounted rate! Prices for this countdown deal are available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk,

With a scheduled release online for August 31st. (ASIN: B0DBDPBZFX) the limited edition book titled – Trio Of Tales: Horror Con 2024, will be available in paperback format at the horror conventions which I am participating in this year and is meant as teaser for the newest short story collection that I am working on. It contains several illustrations as well as three short story’s: one dark fantasy, one folk Horror, and one apocalyptic horror.

Also:

readersfavorite.com will have three of my available books listed as prizes in the monthly book giveaway. If you are interested in winning some amazing books by great authors you can check out the monthly giveaway here: book giveaway /Rise or/and here: book-giveaway/combo and here: book-giveaway/The Warning Signs

Upcoming Event Reminders:

2024

We are scheduled to participate at the DarkHistory & Horror Convention. The con this year will be August 31^st -September 1^st, at the Orpheum theater in Champaign, IL.

Concealed Realms plans to participate at the inaugural horror fiesta in Peoria IL on September 14th. This event is set to take place at the exposition gardens opera house

We plan to participate at the Brookfield Quad Con on October 12^th and 13^th! This event will take place at the Brookfield Square Mall.

.We are scheduled to participate in the Lafayette Comic Con, Mighty Con on October 26th. This event takes place at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, located in Lafayette, IN

On November 2^nd and 3^rd, we plan to participate at the Peoria, IL Quad Con! This event is set to take place at the Northwoods Mall.

On November 23^rd and 24^th, Concealed Realms plans to participate at the Madison WI East Towne Mall Quad Con.

Concealed Realms plans to return to the Davenport Northpark Mall for Quad Con. The event is set to take place on December 7^th and 8^th^..

We plan to participate at the Des Moines Quad Con! This event is set to take place at the Merle Hay Mall on December 14^th and 15^th.

2025

We are planning to return to Peoriacon! This event is scheduled to take place at the Peoria Civic Center on March 29^th and 30^th.

Quotes Regarding The Horror Genre:

“It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we’re all afraid. We’re born afraid, we’re all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I’m afraid of, you’re afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.” -John Carpenter

“Horror films don’t create fear, they release it.” – Wes Craven

“For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.” -Guillermo del Toro

“Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you’re not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.”

– Jordan Peele

“I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I’ve got a dark side too.”

-Ladyhawke

“Those who boast of their dislike of horror movies are only revealing their inability to surrender control and have fun. Avoid.” -Stewart Stafford

“We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of control in them. I’m just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It’s a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they’ve got a pattern you can unlock and follow.” -Katherine McIntyre, Rising for Autumn

“After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.” -Kat Stiles, Connected

“Imagine how more exciting our lives would be, if we lived a nightmare, a walking Jason, an article about a deformed Leather Face, a HELL raising Cenobite, an expressionless white masked Halloween killer, an actual sighting of flying lights, or even a proven haunted town named Silent Hill” -Dean Mackin

“Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.” –John Lanchester

Definition of : Summer

Dictionary.com

noun

“..the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.”– www.dictionary.com

merriam-webster.com

noun

1: “the season between spring and autumn comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of June, July, and August or as reckoned astronomically extending from the June solstice to the September equinox.”

2: “the warmer half of the year” – merriam-webster.com

Goodbye Summer!

Happy Summer! There is nothing quite like the feeling of summer, although every season has its appeals. Perhaps it’s the way the stifling weather tends to lend to a slower pace in general or maybe the feeling is rooted in distant memories of all those summers off from school as a child, when we would be best entertained by camping, swimming, and occasional nighttime trips to the drive-in movie theater. With those memories in mind, I thought it would be fun to bid farewell to the hottest time of the year by sharing 14 summer horror films to sink your teeth into before the official start of autumn, the spookiest season and my personal favorite.

What is Summer?

The word summer was first recorded before the year 900 and is said to come from the Old English word for the season, sumor. If you would like to delve deeper into the words origins, consider visiting: dynamiclanguage.com

Many people consider Labor Day the final huzzah of summer, however, the astronomical summer lasts from the summer solstice in June (on the 20th in 2024) until the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in September (on the 22nd in 2024). This is based on the position of the earth in relation to the sun. Alternately, the meteorological definition of summer refers to the three warmest months, June to August. This consistency helps meteorologists to collect and organize data easier.

Fourteen Summer horror Films to sink your teeth into:

Below you will find a list of fourteen terribly amusing horror flicks set in the summer, listed in no particular order. These movie plots and presentations are full of summertime antics and include a variety of experiences ranging from slasher flicks to musical re-imaginings… so whether your into science experiments gone awry, good old-fashioned murder, a paranormal experience, or an apocalyptic event, this list should have something for almost everyone.

An Important Note:

*Something for everyone does not necessarily mean everyone would enjoy all of the films I have included. You should consider that the movies themselves, as well as the style it which the stories were filmed vary a great deal. Some have explicit content and some may be considered family friendlier, so it is up to you to use your own judgement to decide if you would like the viewing experience or not, do not rely on the “rating” alone.

1.) Jaws

1975 (PG Rating) Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror

When the water fearing police chief of a resort town attempts to close the beaches after a shark attack, his decision is overruled by the mayor for fear that the loss of revenue over the holiday weekend would do irreversible damage to the tourist dependent locale. Left with few alternatives, the chief teams up with a marine biologist and a crabby old seafarer to hunt the man-eating beast.

2.) The Day Of The Triffids

1963(Rated Approved) Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

After an apparent meteor shower blinds much of the planet’s population, plantlike creatures emerge from craters and begin to take over. As a scientist desperately attempts to find a way to defeat the leafy monsters, a military officer who is one of the few sighted people left alive, meets with other survivors of the global catastrophe, as he seeks a safe haven.

3.) Creature From The Black Lagoon

1954 (G Rating) Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror

A geology expedition in the Amazon uncovers fossilized evidence of a prehistoric human-fish hybrid. Intent on determining if the find is an anomaly or evidence of a direct link between land and sea animals, the scientists expand their search, disturbing the habitat of a living member of the same species.

4.) Piranhna

1978 (R Rating) Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror

Maggie and Paul accidently set loose thousands of genetically altered piranhas from a defunct military compound holding tank, sending them directly into a river which a nearby resort and summer camp uses. When the flesh-eating fish’s origins are revealed, it’s a race to beat them downstream and hopefully prevent them from reaching the ocean and spreading around the world.

5.) Summer of 84

2018 (Not Rated) Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer seeking evidence and spying on him. The closer they get to uncovering the truth, the more dangerous their endeavor becomes.

6.) Dead Alive (Braindead)

1992 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy

A New Zealand expedition team captures a creature known as a Sumatran rat-monkey. Regardless of the fact that this hybrids bite turns the recipients into decaying, flesh consuming zombies, it is sent to a zoo where it infects an overbearing mother named Vera. From there, it’s up to her son Lionel to attempt damage control as his mother attacks and eats pets, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

7.) Tremors

1990 (PG 13 Rating) Genre: Horror, Comedy

In Nevada, a group of people in a town named “Perfection” defend themselves against giant, worm-like monsters that we come to know as graboids, which are killing them off one by one.

8.) Children of the Corn

1984 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Thriller

As physician Burt Stanton and his girlfriend drive across the Midwest, their trip comes to a halt when they encounter the body of a murdered boy in the road. While trying to contact the authorities they wander into a remote town where a dangerous cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be sacrificed to the malevolent entity “He Who Walks Behind the Rows” to ensure a successful corn harvest.

9.) Evil Dead 1 & 2: The Musical

2004 (Rating) Genre: Comedy, Musical, Horror

In this music infused retelling of Evil Dead 1 & 2, a group of college students go to a long-abandoned cabin in the forest, and unwittingly unleash an evil force which turns them all into demons. It’s up to a chainsaw wielding, housewares employee named Ash to kill the demons and save the day.

10.) Midsommar

2019 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery

Three friends, Christian, Josh, and Mark have been invited by their mutual friend Pelle to attend a nine-day midsummer festival at his ancestral commune, in a rural region of Sweden. The festival only occurs once every 90 years, so Josh regards it as a once in a lifetime opportunity and plans to write his thesis on the festivities. Christian who intended to break up with his girlfriend Dani, who is grieving the death of her family month’s earlier, reluctantly invites her to join them after an argument. What starts out as an idyllic retreat at the refuge quickly develops into a bizarre and savage competition.

11.) The Lost Boys

1987 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Comedy

After moving to a small town in northern California, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires. While the younger brother Sam meets a pair of like minded comrades in a comic store, his older brother Michael falls for Star, who turns out to be in thrall by the leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends work together to try to save Michael and Star from the blood sucking undead.

12.) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1974 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Thriller

When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her wheelchair bound brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After they verify that the grave is still intact, they attempt to get gas, but find that the station is awaiting a fresh supply, so they decide to visit their abandoned family homestead in the meantime. As luck would have it, while exploring they discover a murderous, cannibalistic family living next door.

13.) Ghost Ship

2022 (R Rating) Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

The crew of an offshore salvage vessel gets hired by a stranger who claims to have accidentally found a ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea. When they reach the vessel, it turns out that the ship is the ANTONIA GRAZA, a passenger vessel, which mysteriously vanished without a trace in the sixties. Once onboard, the salvage crew is plagued by supernatural events.

14.) Sleepaway Camp

1983 (R Rating) Genre: Horror

After a horrible boating accident kills her family, the single traumatized surviving child is sent to live with an eccentric aunt Martha and her son, Ricky. Eight years later Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak for the summer. Soon after their arrival, strange and increasingly violent accidents claim the lives of various campers.

Final thoughts

I had a lot of fun creating this list of spine tingling movies set during the warmest season. At first, I found it hard to decide which of the many flix with summer vibes to include, but after much debate I am optimistic that the fourteen above will help to satisfy your thirst for summer horror films!

I hope that you enjoyed this creativity post! Stay safe and keep being awesome.