Rip Terror: The Origin of The Name

by Shane Ray Sollis
(Friendship, TN USA)

Even as a kid the age of four, I was drawn to the horror movie genre. I remember my first movie was A Nightmare on Elm Street, and since that day I don't go a week without watching some kind of horror film.

I'm the most pleased with the slasher films, and in my opinion, B class style horror is always better. I was known as the talking slasher box by friends, which I changed to Rip Terror, because I came from the small town of Ripley,TN. So, there you have it.

Being a young jock and all, I proved horror films don't always speak to alienation. I would like to say thanks to all the people who make these great "cockroaches" of films possible, and I know pure horror never dies.