Scrolling through my Instagram feed recently I came across this post from the My Favorite Murder podcast:
For some reason I was compelled to read the comments and I found that people were confused by the second to last tattoo. It features something very familiar to horror fans, Sally Hardesty’s triumphant Final Girl scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
She is manic as she speeds away from Leatherface in the back of a pick up, SSDGM (a My Favorite Murder acronym for ‘Stay Sexy, Don’t Get Murdered’) scrawled in blood on the truck’s rear windshield. A beautiful mash up if I ever saw one. But many MFM fans didn’t get it. Then an obvious thing dawned on me.
True crime fans are not necessarily horror fans.
I guess because I am so engrossed in both horror and true crime that it just never occurred to me that it wasn’t the case for others. I find this fascinating. There is so much overlap, so what separates the two for people?
What are your thoughts? Are you a fan of one, the other, both, neither? Why do you prefer one over the other? Please share!
vigour mortis 
Hey! Love this post. I’m a self-proclaimed murderino who claims to love horror, but as I’ve grown up, I realize I only like campy/monster movies where the horror is mystical/ancient – any movies that are basically true-life re-telling of things that could still happen just upset me. It’s too easy to see myself in the narrative. Does that make any sense? Anyway – love the post! #SSDGM
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