Welcome to my digital shadow…

...that focuses on the horror genre by a PNW based writer with a marketing and advertising background. Posts focus on horror and are single movie reviews, topic deep dives, subgenre trend analyses, iconic franchise overviews, and more. In this shadow horror is profit generating entertainment AND art that can enlighten and deepen cultural understanding. Additionally I aim to understand what we fear and what motivates those fears. If that is your cup of tea scroll into the unknown on the homepage or visit any of the dedicated pages in the navigation menu.

WARNING

All posts contain strong language, descriptions of graphic imagery and/or content and discussion of NSFW topics and if that isn't what you're looking for you've found the wrong site. Red Rose Horror is about fear, the things that terrify, and what that could mean. Spoiler warnings are provided in most posts but please proceed with caution for potential spoilers in each post.

Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025)

The decision to make the most recent installment of Hell House LLC, titled Lineage, a regular movie rather than a found footage movie raised doubts and questions from initial announcement. Unfortunately I spent the night of August 20th confused what I was even watching. Very few times in my life have myself or my husband decided that a movie wasn't worth sitting in the theater to complete it and instead left but this is one of those time, I walked out about 40 minutes into th

Black horror renaissance title card 2017-Present

Black Horror Renaissance (2017-Now)

In this post I argue the thesis: the audience driven success of Get Out (2017) encouraged more money invested in making black horror. This investment resulted in more black voices successfully telling black stories through the genre which helped push the genre forward while validating unspoken pains experienced by many in the community and generating large return on investments.

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Fiction

In addition to horror content I write fiction in the form of poetry, short stories, and work-in-progress novels. On the Fiction dedicated page linked below are project samples, including pages from a poetry collection book, a fantasy novel series concept and the start of a horror novel.

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