About Us

Sawyer D'Argonne- Creator, Head Writer and Editor

My name is Sawyer D'Argonne and I am a journalism student at the University of Denver as well as an enthusiast in all things horror. I took an interest in the genre at a young age, often sneaking downstairs at night to put in William Malone's House on Haunted Hill or Wes Craven's Scream on VHS. As my taste in the macabre began to develop, so too did my scholarship.

Sawyer D'Argonne, at Port Arthur, Tasmania

While the horror industry is sometimes cast aside and dismissed as trope filled cautionary tales of our moral shortcomings or a low budget excuse to shock an audience with gore and sexuality, I believe that horror, as a genre, is perhaps the most honest interpretation of our cultural anxieties and fears that exists today.

Fear is the most basic of emotions and in some circumstances is capable of crippling a mind and driving it mad, or inspiring an individual to greatness. However, fear is also a sociological and cultural phenomenon. While horror movies and other media are devoted to showing the individual what they fear most, the genre also acts as a means of cultural reflection, revealing our own social discomforts and fears based around our shared cultural experience as a country. I say country because, as a tool of societal introspection, every country puts their own brand of horror up on screen.

Even with the big picture beginning to reveal itself, the simplest questions still remain. What do we find scary, and why? These are the questions that come up every time we have A Scary Dream.