Justin Kerswell is one of the world’s foremost slasher movie experts. He’s been collecting VHS tapes, chasing down video nasties, and celebrating masked maniacs since long before it was fashionable—or even legal. He’s the creator of the long-running slasher movie review site Hysteria Lives!, the author of Teenage Wasteland: The Slasher Movie Uncut, and one quarter of the cult podcast The Hysteria Continues. If it stalks or screams (or wears a parka, URBAN LEGEND I’m looking at you), Justin’s probably seen it, traded it on VHS, and made his younger siblings watch the gory bits. In this inaugural edition of Horrorigins, Justin opens up about his first frights, favourite films, and why the hunt was half the fun.

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