I Love Horror is a blog dedicated to the critical, analytical and cynical assessment of the horror industry, with a specific focus on contemporary horror and why it mostly sucks. The author is one Brad McHargue, a jaded film fan whose love of horror extends to the early nineties and viewings of such films as Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manattan, Sleepaway Camp, and A Nightmare on Elm Street IV. He has often been described as someone who “hates movies” and for some reason his dad thinks his love of horror is just a phase

I Love Horror was started a few weeks before Brad received his Master’s degree in Classical Civilizations at Florida State University in August of 2008. A word of advice: if you want to get a graduate degree in the liberal arts, give your $50,000 to a charity. It will do you as much good as giving it to a school to teach you a subject that can be easily learned with a library card and a modicum of discipline. Despite this, Brad is not jaded, for he managed to use his humble blog as a stepping stone to a wonderful career in freelance writing.

And by wonderful he means poor.

Over time I Love Horror managed to attract the attention of a few key members of the horror blogging community, and was eventually nominated and inducted into the League of Tana Tea Drinkers, a community whose mission is “to acknowledge, foster, and support thoughtful, articulate, and creative blogs built on an appreciation of the horror and sci-fi genres.” From there he  wrote briefly for a few different horror outlets, including Fangoria, Horror-Movies.ca, and HorrorNews.net (the latter of which he is not proud of).

In September Brad was fortunate enough to attend Fantastic Fest in Austin, where he schmoozed with the likes of JT Petty, Jake West, and so many film bloggers it would make your head spin. While there he was invited to join Scott Weinberg (FEARnet, Cinematical) and Peter Hall (Horror’s Not Dead) as a writer for Horror Squad. A month later he covered the small but impressive  Starz Denver International Film Festival, where he didn’t meet anyone famous.

Brad has a day job, but it’s not related to horror so it’s not worth mentioning. Brad lives in Denver, and in addition to horror movies loves hiking, black coffee and procrastinating.