So, let’s get into this new “horror-core” poem I hacked together from an old horror movie review, shall we?

“Rerun”

a murder is committed on an average of every five minutes

the only difference

is the names of the victims have changed

a young man who went on a killing spree

chopped, hacked, sliced and diced

the story is still the same

A respectable 18

not the all time high

but just enough to continue the bloody tradition

it drew attendion

just one attack after another

a string of murders

to wipe out the nightmares

macabre; contrived

you know some people have a weird idea of what’s entertainment

Notes on “Rerun”

Is this just edgy garbage? I can see how some people might see that. Had been doing this in high school, I might have been put on some kind of list or sent to speak with several adults who might have been concerned about me.

I can state here for the record, I am fine. I feel pretty happy right now, and this is just me playing with the words and themes I find in the text I carve new poems from. Like the previous piece, “Massacre,” I am pulling from this great collection of vintage horror reviews and one-sheets from Archive.org.

Rich Bentley’s review of Friday the 13th: Part VI is very dismissive, calling the film more of the same. I get it, and it pretty quickly established a theme I built on by focusing on the repetition of violence in the criticism.

The thing I found funniest, though, is that, for as much as Bentley is dismissive of the film, he does get up on a video-nasty high-horse about the threat to children within a sequence of the film. Apparently, it is more of the same, except when it does something different, but it shouldn’t do something different, either.

Sometimes it feels like horror just can’t win. But hey, what have you heard of before? Friday the 13th: Part VI, or Rich Bentley?

That’s what I thought.

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