Marie M. Church profile picture

Marie M. Church

Let me show you the Nightmares you never knew you had

About Me

I'm a writer that likes to give my nightmares shape in my stories. I have had friends ask me why horror. Let me explain it a bit here. I like to take people out of their safe little world and show them the shadows that lurk around them. ****** I do pay the bills by writing for a small newspaper.**** I love independent movies so let me know about the films that I should keep a look out for. Or just anything that would be interesting to watch! I'm also a lover of great art. So I keep my eyes open for any new artists. ++++++++Just something to think about... anyone can write a story about a woman and child stuck in a car with a rabid dog outside. But if anyone else but Stephen King wrote that story would it still have been Cujo?****

Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor

My Interests

CURRENT MOON moon phases I spend most of my time Writing, of course! My interests vary from volunteering for film festivals, reading, visiting with friends, and traveling. I'm always looking to improve both my work and myself. I think the best stories are the ones that come from people watching.

WHITLAMS lyrics Mark Ryden one of my favorite artists. www.markryden.com

I'd like to meet:

Of course, I would have to say Stephen King and Bentley Little. Writers, filmmakers, screenwriters, and anyone else with the same interests. Or anyone that I can learn from or has anything interesting to say. I should mention that even though I write constantly, I'm pretty bad at commenting back or answering messages. I do try to catch up and comment back when I can.
Torture Couture
..I'm so proud to have my very own stalker. He wrote and sang a song all about me!! Yes, under my name... not pen name. I just had to share it since it might be the only song ever written for me.... Enjoy it!! Thanks so much.

Music:

Most of my music is from the 80's, Depeche Mode,The Cure,The Smiths, Morrissey, Pixies, Madonna then there's Placebo, Fall Out Boy, Garbage, Metisse, Blue October, Panic at the Disco, Aimee Mann, Joydrop, Hungry Lucy, Rasputina, Darling Violetta, Elton John..The Beatles. There's so much more. I'll basically listen to anything that has great lyrics. It just depends on my mood or what I'm working on at the time.I just had to add Placebo's cover of Running up that Hill.

Movies:

All horror movies, some foreign films, dark comedies, sci-fi, action, Indie films and comedies. Heathers, Very Bad Things, Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Chasing Amy, Whatever happened to Baby Jane?, Riding the Bullet, Donnie Darko, Gingersnaps and whatever else seems to be good. I just can't get enough of Cary Grant Movies. Would it ruin my street cred as a horror writer if I admit I love Disney films? ;)

Television:

Although I have my TV on a lot of the time, it serves as background noise. There are a few shows I do watch House, Law and Order SVU, Psych, Monk and Dirt. Yeah, I know Dirt is my 'guilty pleasure.' I used to love Friday the 13th the series, that's what I wished they would put out on DVD. I'm not sure anyone remembers that show. Oh and you can't forget Twin Peaks.

Books:

I read anything and everything I can get my hands on. I'm a huge fan of Bentley Little, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, and anything else that catches my interest. I'm an avid reader of Cemetery Dance magazine. Oh, I would recommend the book On Writing Horror by Stephen King, for anyone that writes horror.

Heroes:



My Blog

Never again (another old one)

Never Again Jaycee looked over at her husband as he got his bags together it was over. The room they shared stifled by the silence as he packed. In her morbid way she thought of that cliché Air so th...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

Cursed (yep I pulled it from my other profile)

The city lights glowed in the distance from the 12th floor balcony of the Children's hospital. It was the best hospital in the state; everyone told Kelsey how the doctors would be able to get her son...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:22:00 PST

International Horror and SciFi film festival

Well the end of another Film festival and I have to say it was great! I got some great pictures of Linda Blair, Ken Foree and a few others. I even got to see Jigsaw, it was a great costume that a litt...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:32:00 PST

Tattoo ideas

So I have decided I want to get another tattoo. I want to do a quill pen and then I was thinking of a pin up girl holding a book or something to that affect. I just can't find what I'm looking for!BTW...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:49:00 PST

The Halloween Remake (my take on it) Spoilers included

Ok so this isn't the story that I had promised, but I had to say a few things about Rob Zombie's version of Halloween. I am not a big fan of re-makes or of Rob Zombie but I still had to see this one. ...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:34:00 PST

Ok So

It seems the magazine I was going to have my story in just disappeared. There hasn't been any mention of anything and the website has gone MIA. I just may post this phantom story in my blog. We'll ha...
Posted by Marie M. Church on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:57:00 PST