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Day 7 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween...today my guest is author Brittni Brinn!

10/25/2020

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Brittni Brinn is so thrilled to be featured as part of 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween! She grew up with a healthy love for the season: her Mom always made the day fun, hosting games nights and planning parties, sometimes sewing costumes for her sister and her. This may have influenced why she grew up to enjoy theatre so much: being part of a community and getting to try on different personalities and characters onstage. Brittni was part of theatre groups all through her 20s, and she even wrote a few plays. One of them was called Jaala, where she stepped in to play the eccentric/sinister inventor when the original actor had to change roles. Since then, Brittni has moved into writing fiction, and has two published novels, The Patch Project and A Place That Used to Be, which just came out with Adventure Worlds Press!

Now, on with the interview...mwa ha ha ha...

Tell me all about your latest book!


A Place That Used to Be is a post-apocalyptic novel. It features an ensemble cast of characters, some with strange powers, journeying through a changing wasteland in search of a place to belong. There's a restaurant in a forest, a mysterious illness, and dangerous scavengers called Grafters. No zombies though :)

Who are some of your influences, as an author, particularly for this specific book?

This book is the second in a series (though it reads just fine as a stand alone story), so the biggest influence on
A Place would probably be all of the feedback I received from readers about the first book.Who their favourite characters were. What about the world drew their attention. What they wanted to know more about. That feedback pushed this book places I don't think it would have gone otherwise. Other influences probably include books like Station Eleven, which is a fantastic post-apocalyptic novel tying together art and survival, and a general interest in communities, what brings people together and how they face challenges.

Who are your favourite horror authors overall?

I have to confess that most horror novels are usually too much for me! I get too immersed when I read, and it's difficult to pull myself out of the atmosphere of the book when it's finished. Generally, short stories are much more my speed! I love dark fiction stories that are 'weird' or conceptual. Local authors Christian Laforet and Alexander Zelenyj are probably my favourite writers of horror/weird speculative fiction.

Is horror comedy something you’d ever consider writing (or ever have written)?


I haven't read or written much horror comedy, though I've been involved in a couple of film and theatre productions with those elements. When I was living in Edmonton, one of my friends from undergrad decided to make a zombie movie. It was a week of meeting up in parks and alleys, getting covered in fake blood, and very slowly chasing a newly-fired office worker. It was a lot of fun!
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Author Brittni Brinn
Now, turning to movies…do you have a fav horror movie?

Similar to my experience with horror books, horror movies are usually too scary for me! Especially psychological horror. When I was a teenager, my sister and I watched Whatever Happened to Baby Jane in a windowless basement sitting on the floor because the room hadn't been furnished yet. It was one of the scariest things I'd ever seen - and you could argue that movie isn't even that scary! I do enjoy a good horror comedy though! I just watched One Cut of the Dead, a Japanese film directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda. If you haven't seen it, it's a wonderfully layered and surprisingly touching film, in addition to being one of the best meta-comedies I've come across.

And even more specifically, what is your favourite B-movie?

I love B-movies! I have my friends in Edmonton to thank for that: they used to organize "bad movie" nights, where we'd watch everything from The Room to Troll 2 to Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter. Probably my favourite classic B-movie is Plan 9 From Outer Space. There's such an earnestness to it, even at its most ridiculous. More recently, I've been introduced to the films of Neil Breen. I went to a screening of Fateful Findings last year, and that communal experience of enjoying something quite bad is what I love most about watching B-movies.

What are usually your Halloween traditions, and what do you plan for this more unusual year, what with COVID-19?

Most Halloweens, my husband and I turn off all the lights and watch movies. Sometimes we invite a friend or two over, or go out to a friend's Halloween party. This year, I'm hoping to arrange an online watch night with our Miyazaki movie group!

Thank you so much for joining me for these 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween--the extra scary 2020 edition, Brittni!

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Interested in some of the films and books mentioned by Brittni? Check 'em out:

Click HERE if you wanna check out Day 6...
Click HERE if you want to see Day 8!

Do you love Halloween, monsters, zombies, funny aliens and whatnot? Like, basically the content of any or all of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween series (whether this year's or last)?

I think you might enjoy my feature film, "Space Zombies: 13 Months of Brain-Spinning Mayhem!"

Buy or rent it at Eyesore Cinema in Toronto, or iTunes, or right here on my website!

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    • Peter Little Wing
    • Chloe the Unfeathered Parrot
    • Merry Myrrh the Christmas Bat - new edition!
    • Sloth the Lazy Dragon - new edition!
    • Dog Band
    • Libby the Lobivia Jajoiana
    • Beverlee, la chatte de Birmanie
    • Beverlee Beaz the Brown Burmese New Edition!
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    • Sloth the Lazy Dragon
    • Beverlee Beaz the Brown Burmese First Edition (out of print)
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    • Horror at Terror Creek
    • They Suck
    • Space Zombies!
    • The Trilogy of Horrifically Half-Baked Ham
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    • Horror at Terror Creek
    • They Suck
    • The Aquarium
    • Paradise Lust...
    • Space Zombies...
    • Sketches
    • Watching Mr. Body
    • The Scary Bitch Project
    • The Foreign Film
    • Where are the Birds?
    • Scripts COMING SOON
    • Free Downloads!
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    • Envy
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    • The Institute
    • Reuben
    • Free Downloads!
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