#spring horror

My holy trinity of spring films

The war brought eternal winter, soldiers fighting to be the one who wins their side the war. They freeze to death and cut off limbs infected with frostbite, they winter started years ago when the war began. My love, they sent you out there. They took you from our safe warm home to be infected by this so called fight. You are not a fighter but a lover. We sent our secret correspondents for they did not know of us, but my love you have not sent word for months now.

In my usual fashion, I’ve gone from ‘spring-based horror - huh, that’s a concept I’ve literally never heard of or thought about before’ to being incredibly annoyed there aren’t more spring-based horror stories around that I can see.  Like I get it, the general aesthetic of spring - and winter is the horror month, darkness, coldness, no food, death - but when you think about it, spring is great for horror.  New things being born.  The chaos of genetic mutation.  Things that seemed dead coming back to life again.  Things that were hibernating waking up and coming out to hunt again.  Things growing, and being in fierce competition with each other for resources.  Breeding animals suddenly going nuts, going all out, trying to keep their young alive - spring is a time for baby animals, but it’s also a time for parent animals to start hunting down baby animals to either feed themselves or their young with - and some of the things I’ve seen in nature documentaries...