Horror Rookie Academy

  Quite a reality we live in, huh? 🥴 It's kinda messed up. Kamikaze-trained harp seals with GoPros on their heads swim around our oceans while geopolitical toxic masculinity literally spills out across all continents. On top of it all: AI. There seems to be no end to it all. That's why the Horror Rookie Academy offered a whole week of escapism in early February 2025. ...but what exactly is escapism in horror, sci-fi and absurdist film? It's not a genre, is it? We introduced the topic like this: - SUBJECTIVE: For some, _all_ films can actually be an escape from reality. Here we are looking for tips on which films/series (horror/sci-fi/absurd) are an escape from reality for you. There are no right or wrong answers here. 😁 - HUMOR: Humor strikes me like a joker in this game. For example, I laughed my way through The Human Centipede; for me it was a very unrealistic comedy - and then I know that my mother would perceive the film a little differently. (I accidentally saw David...

  Some movie are just better than other movies. In a profound way.  Ya'll know what I mean. The top notch movies.  Below, we have listed some of the rookies' absoulte favorites. Enjoy! 👦   Tittel År Saw 2004 The Vigil 2019 Pandorum 2009 The Shining 1980 Session 9 2001 Under the Skin 2013 Last Shift 2014 What keeps you alive 2018 A Cure for Wellness 2016 A Girl walks Home alone at Night 2014 Ringu 1998 Aterrados 2017 Sinister 2012 Train to Busan 2016 Hereditary 2018 Midsommar 2019 Martyrs 2008 The Lighthouse 2019 The Taking of Deborah Logan 2014 Terrifier 2016 The Autopsy of Jane doe 2016 Host 2020 0

Quite a few of us have to go under the knife at one time or another to be slashed by skilled wage earners.  Expert slashing. The Horror Rookie Academy originates and resides in Norway,  where we have a free health care system and a sick leave system in the workplace that allows for actually being sick when you are sick.  Or: in convalescence, which is what this post revolves around. (photo: Body Parts (1987) The other day, a question popped in from a surgically modified rookie who was lying flat in recovery asking for movie recommendations.    Rookies! I'm at home on the couch after recovering from shoulder surgery; 16 years in the same profession f*cked the dang shoulder up. I'm considering watching the entire Saw-franchise again to relieve inner angst and somatic discomfort, but I am more than open for suggestions. I really love body horror! A bunch of rookies got exited by this questions and dove into their sick (but beautiful) minds to compile this wee list ...

  It's really hard not to like giallo when you like horror movies. If you ask me. It has the seventies feel to it, it has slashing, practical effects, razors and negligees, black gloves and mansions. ...and the names of these movie, my goodness. "Aunt Martha does dreadful things", for example. 😍 One of our rookies is a regular cornucopia of knowledge of giallo, and he dug into his mind looking for the more obscure giallo movies.  Enjoy! ✌ Murder Obsession (Riccardo Freda, 1980; Italian: Follia omicida) aka Fear, aka The Wailing, aka The Murder Syndrome The Secret of Seagull Island (Nestore Ungaro, 1981; Italian: L'isola del gabbiano) Madhouse (Ovidio Assonitis, 1981) aka There Was a Little Girl Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982) aka Unsane The Scorpion with Two Tails (Sergio Martino, 1982; Italian: Assassinio al cimitero etrusco / Murder in the Etruscan Cemetery) A Blade in the Dark (Lamberto Bava, 1982; Italian: La casa con la scala nel buio / The House with the Dar...

Sci-fi is nothing short of glorious entertainment. Science fiction takes you to the outer realms of space, to strange planets inhabited by alien creatures whose workings are unbeknownst to us.  It also takes you deep into the human fear of technology, of hybridization, alien lifeforms, artificial intelligence, time travel, cyborgs and into our very future itself. One starry night, as there were no skies covering the Scandinavian peninsula, the rookies of  The Horror Rookie Academy  looked up towards the skies. They let their gaze wander between stars, the moon and the infinite expanse of our universe. They let their minds drift, their fantasy wander. They stared into the the very void itself. Awe-stricken by it all, their minds simply set ablaze by cosmic complexity, they decided it was time to put their heads together. The goal? To curate an extensive list of tips on top notch science fiction movies and series. Below, you find no less than 96 movie tips on sci-fi movies ...