Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012!

As we begin to say our goodbyes to 2011, we are super excited to see what 2012 will bring us. There is no doubt that there are tons of high profile movies that bleed over into our genres that we cover. While we mainly cover horror films here, we bleed exploitation, sci-fi, and anything fantastique or strange. You will see new writers join us in 2012 as well as more original content that shows that we are true fans of the genres we report on. I have been living and breathing horror and its subgenres for over 2 decades now. That doesn’t mean I have seen every film ever made, but I have seen a lot and one thing that is missing from our site is how knowledgeable we are. I had a conversation with someone who would come and read the site every now and again but after we talked for awhile about past horror films, he said “Why don’t you ever get this in depth on your site?” That is what I plan to do with our articles that we will be introducing throughout the year.

Some people, very few, have asked me about the podcast. Destroy the Brain first started as a podcast and then seemed to dwindle off once the site content started to get pretty heavy. I’m happy to say that 2012 will see the return of the podcast with writer Michael Haffner joining me as a co-host. Look for it to start back up in the next couple of months.

You will still see the normal news and reviews pop up on the site but we plan to put some original content out there to differentiate us from the other sites. 2011 was our first full year as a fully fledged website and we learned quite a bit. We are looking forward to 2012 coverage and content and we hope you are too.

Andy Triefenbach is the Editor-in-Chief and owner of DestroytheBrain.com. In addition to his role on the site, he also programs St. Louis' monthly horror & exploitation theatrical midnight program, Late Nite Grindhouse. Coming from a household of a sci-fi father and a horror/supernatural loving mother, Andy's path to loving genre film was clear. He misses VHS and his personal Saturday night 6 tape movie marathons from his youth.