OH NO RACHEL ROTH IS STUCK IN A HORROR FRANCHISE

8/8/2022

OH NO I’M STUCK IN A HORROR

This is a new, hopefully fun short interview template, where you imagine you are trapped in a series of horror books and films, it’s meant to be a lighthearted way to talk about the thing you want to promote without directly talking about it. As with all of the other templates, please include a biography, the product you want to promote, any social media links or links to purchase your stuff at the end of the article and please attach a profile picture that we can use in the article.

You wake up and find yourself in a horror franchise, what franchise would you prefer to wake up in and why?

I´m torn between the Scream films and Insidious. Scream is my all-time favorite slasher and because it’s based in a non-magic world, I think I could stand a chance at surviving, however, Insidious is a world I just cannot resist. I want to travel through the Further so bad! I´d most definitely would get lost but I´d still go exploring.
In the end though, I think I´d go with Scream. Those films just have an atmosphere that I think I´d thrive in.

You find yourself as the “Final One” which monster / villain would you most like to go up against ands why do you think you would survive?

Since I picked Scream, I guess I´d be going up against Ghostface and in that case, it´d be the person behind the mask that I´d be talking to. They´re always unreasonable, but that´s okay. My father suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and I used to get woken up at 3 am to be told that a man named Andy was outside my window with a gun, if I sat up, he´d shot me in the head. I´m used to unpredictable situations and talking to someone who can´t seemingly be reasoned with. I like to think I´d be somewhat prepared for whatever Billy Loomis and Stu Macher knock offs come my way.

Anyone who has seen Scream, any of the five movies, knows that Ghostface is a human in a mask, and most importantly, a human that can be injured. I may not be all that skilled, but I think if I was prepared, I could take on a Ghostface. Tripping them with their robe would be my first step. How could any of them run in that thing?

And which creature would you least like to go up against?

I have an intense fear of sharks, galeophobia, and a fear of the open sea, thalassophobia. So, any kind of shark or creature bound to the water, would be a nightmare for me. Just the idea of floating in open water makes me break out in a frightened sweat.

You find yourself in Scooby Doo, which character are you, and who would most like to have as the other members of Mystery Inc?

Ever seen that Scooby Doo crossover with Supernatural? In my fantasy of Scooby Doo I´d like to be another type of talking dog, not Scooby because no one can replace Scooby, that is adopted into the gang. Then cartoon Sam and Dean show up and they all join in. That´s my Mystery Inc. Fred can beat it, so it´d be me, Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and then Sam and Dean.

Pinhead pops round for an evening of fun, what are you pains and pleasures?

Pains are anything to do with eyes and skinning (shivers), and my pleasures are…I have no idea. Sitting in the dark and listening to the Sinister soundtrack, staring at Hannibal Lector´s drawing of the “Wounded Man,” maybe just having a bowl of lychees or having a movie theater all to myself. I don´t really have a good answer for this.

The Wishmaster gives you three wishes

1. You can wish to write in any franchise
2. You can wipe on franchise from the minds of everyone
3. You can date your horror crush

What do you chose?

One day after a bad day at work, used to work for RGIS, I imagined a Saw type of game for the worst of my coworkers. I was quite proud of it actually.
The game was the workers would wake up in a store with different types of devices on them. Similar to Amanda´s reverse bear trap, but none are the same, and the key to unlocking them all is in a single safe. Unfortunately, the only way to get the combination is to correctly count every piece of inventory in the store, no summarizing, lying or skipping. Everyone has a section, and the combined numbers would be the combination. If you get three wrong tries, someone’s device will randomly go off.

I often imagined this scenario because hardly anyone at RGIS counted the inventory properly. Once saw a coworker look at an entire self of peanut butter, well over 15 jars and just shrugged and typed 8 in their device while I was taking the time to move the jars around to separate crunchy, smooth, hazelnut, etc., and actually counting them. So, Scream is my dream, but I think I´d have fun writing for Saw. Would be therapeutic.

RACHEL ROTH

An author and poet living in South Florida. A graduate of the University of South Florida with a Bachelor's in English and a Certificate in Creative Writing, she's written for several horror anthologies and literary journals including 101 Horror Proof, Pandemic Unleashed, and Darkness Wakes. Ramblings of a Madman is her debut poetry collection and Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall is her debut novel. Usually, she's just watching horror movies

https://rachelwinterroth.wixsite.com/website

The book I wish to promote is my novel, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall. Here is the Amazon link
The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

Her love has endured for over 2,500 years without signs of waning as she gathers cast-off children to call her own. The undead redheaded girl living in a Tennessee mall is something the world has not seen before or since. She turns the unwanted and the unloved into a family of the undead.

Follow her drawing of three disaffected and abused teens into her world. In a dark code of justice, they feast on the abusive and oppressive while fighting off all who get too close to the truth with ruthless savagery.