El Satanico Halloween Special — Interview with Carlos Cooper II

I just love when our admins over at El Satanico:The Ninth Level Of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Culture share their thoughts and opinions on their passions. It’s a real privilege to be part of a group of knowledgeable people who refuse to participate in gatekeeping and other toxic fandom behavior.

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Last time, we interviewed the enigmatic Annie Ulukou, and this time, we’ve interviewed the sagacious Carlos Cooper. As an interviewer, I don’t pressure people to answer questions they prefer to skip — and I don’t ask why, so you may see this interview isn’t as long. But it’s not about quantity, it’s about quality, and quality is exactly what we got in this interview.

1. Where did you begin your horror journey?
   I first started watching horror movies at 5. My mom and favorite cousin would watch them on Friday nights. And I wanted to hang with them, so they decided to let me watch as well. I’ve been hooked ever since.
2. Books, films, or TV horror? Which to you prefer and why?
   I prefer book horror over film and TV horror. Book horror lets you create the authors world in such a way that the terror is customized to you. You can fill in any blanks the author left in describing things, and really let your imagination run wild.
3. If you had to watch only ONE horror flick for the rest of your life, which one would you choose and why?
   If I could only watch one horror movie for the rest of my life, it would be In The Mouth of Madness. It was the first horror movie I watched independent of my mother and cousin and also led me to find authors who wrote like Sutter Cane, which led me to Stephen King and eventually HP Lovecraft.
4. How has horror helped you through a rough patch in your life?
   Horror actually helped me a LOT with the shutdown last year. I managed to find a band of friends that would watch horror movies, and I would also stream horror movies. It made the Shutdown less bleak.
5. What’s your least favorite horror trope?
   My least favorite horror trope is the use of religion as the big evil. Especially with anything religion outside mainline Christianity, it comes off as shallow to me.
6. You are teleported into your favorite horror film. How do you survive it to be final girl/boy/enby?
   Not sure you survive a Sutter Cane novel unless you’re the main character. Even then you don’t come out sane.
7. What would you like readers to know about you and El Satanico?
   I have been a huge horror fan my entire life, but I DID go through a large chunk of life without seeing any horror due to having no one to talk to about it. So I have missed a LOT of movies. I DID however play horror GAMES. I have a pretty nice sized collection, and I hope to one day soon try to stream some.

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