Julia Specht 🌱

Saw-A-Thon gets a grid post! 🪚✨

back in mid-January, when Saw-A-Thon was still a joke, i mentioned it to a friend, and he was horrified. “is that…ethically wrong?” he said, “those movies are so terrible.”

he’s right, they’re terrible. they’re maybe the worst the genre has to offer. they are 20% traps and 80% the worst cop procedural dialogue you’ve ever seen. but terrible things have a tendency to bring out the best in people, and Saw certainly did this weekend.

the sublime brings people together, and the sublime lives in outrageous media, and when everything hits correctly, it can be so special. listening to a room full of (mostly women) scream and laugh and yell “KISS” at Adam & Laurence Gordon is now a core memory for me. i am so proud of the @brooklynhorrorsociety boys for making such an amazing event - Dave & Adam & Matt all worked so hard and helped create a space that could foster all that joy & generosity. and @lucky13saloon provided the perfect backdrop & support.

our stretch goal was to raise $5K for @chips4thave, so to raise over $16,000 in pledges is astonishing. my time organizing in the horror community has taught me that horror people are exceptionally kind & pro-social, and this is a shining example. all the participants who busted their butts to fundraise are heroes, and they did such incredible work.

i am now on Big Event Probation and i am not allowed to plan something like this again for a little while but don’t worry, we’ll be back with something even bigger and stupider before you know it. ✨🪚