Horror commentator out of Oklahoma. Outsider's take, not film-school posturing. Built the whole machine alone.
I'm Randy. Grew up on horror in a small Oklahoma town where the closest movie theater wasn't great and the video store was the whole world. I didn't go to film school. I'm not gonna pretend I did. What I had was a TV, a stack of VHS, and parents who didn't always check what I was watching. That's where this started.
Picked up a hammer at 19. Carpentry. Framed houses, hung doors, swung a saw. Learned how to build something out of a pile of lumber and a picture in my head. At 25 I started an HVAC business. Built that with my hands too, just a different kind of building. Whole different problem to solve.
That's the thread running through all of it. I like solving problems. I like building things. Doesn't really matter what. A deck, a duct run, a horror page, a whole publication. Same wiring underneath.
In 2019 I started talking about horror online. Just for fun at first. Same way I'd talk about it with a buddy. Turns out close to two million people wanted that.
I make horror content for people who actually live in this stuff. Not the people who watch one A24 movie a year and call themselves fans. The ones who can argue about which Halloween is the real one, who'll defend a Shudder original to your face, who've seen the obscure '70s Italian thing nobody talks about. The deep cuts. The vault stuff.
The reason I went full-time on horror? I was tired of coverage that felt like a press release. Tired of the same five movies getting the same five takes. Tired of guys in glasses calling things "visceral" when they meant "scary." Picked up the phone, sat in my truck or my front room, started talking real.
Everything you see here I built solo. The page, the publication, the merch, the newsletter, the vault. Nights, after the kids are asleep. One-man operation that punches like a media company. That's on purpose. Same way I built houses. Same way I built the HVAC company. You just keep showing up and putting hands on it until it's there.
Seven properties. One operator. All horror. Pick where you want to land.
803,000 horror fans. Daily reels, long-form takes, no algorithm chasing. Just the genre talked about the way fans actually talk about it. The front porch of the whole operation.
The publication. News, trailers, where-to-watch, deep dives, vault pieces, subgenre breakdowns. The stuff whispered between fans who live for the dark.
Cult horror fashion. Shirts and hoodies for people who live in this stuff. Designs you won't see on a mall rack.
578 horror obsessives. Every week. New releases worth your time, hidden gems, the take you didn't see coming. Straight to your inbox.
Members-only horror archive. $17 in, the deep cuts come out. For the people who already know.
Free PDF. The 100 horror movies I think you ought to see at least once. No fluff, no filler.
Real horror promotion for real horror films. Built for the indie folks who don't have a studio behind them.
I don't call movies visceral. I don't talk about auteurs. I'm not gonna tell you something is a meditation on grief. If a movie's good, I'll say it's good. If it scared me, I'll tell you what scene did it.
The horror community has plenty of guys who'll explain the films to you like a class. That's not me. I'm the guy at the back of the room who actually finished the Friday the 13th series and has opinions about every single one of them.
Outsider's take. Real fandom. Blue-collar Oklahoma. I'll talk about a Shudder original and a forgotten '80s slasher in the same breath, because that's how real horror fans think.
That's the whole pitch. If that lands, we're going to get along.
Four doors. Walk through the right one. I'll answer.
If your brand fits the horror audience and you want a real voice talking about it, not an AI-sounding ad read, let's talk. Reels, full content cascades, franchise-month takeovers, and integrated newsletter spots. Media kit, audience, and pricing all in one place.
Made a horror film and need real horror people to actually see it? That's what I Love Indie is. Three tiers, honest pricing, no agency middleman, and the work gets in front of an audience that gives a damn about indie horror.
Need a horror commentator who isn't reading from a press release? I do podcast guesting, on-the-record quotes for horror coverage, panels, and roundtables. Quick turnaround. Real opinions. Oklahoma drawl included.
Got something that doesn't fit a box up there? Send it. If it's about horror, the operation, or working together in some way I haven't thought of yet, I read everything that comes in.
The questions sponsors, press, and curious folks usually ask before they reach out.
Randy W. Stover. Horror commentator from Oklahoma. Started doing this online in 2019. Built a one-man media operation that reaches 1.8 million horror fans across Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Also run ScreamDesk, The Stovening, and the Weekly Shiver newsletter. Solo. No agency.
803K on Facebook, 700K+ on TikTok, 200K+ on YouTube, 99K on Instagram. 578 active subs on the Weekly Shiver. Around 10.9 million views across the last 90 days. Reach skews 25 to 54 with strong horror-fan engagement.
All of it. Slashers, supernatural, indie, foreign, banned-and-controversial, found footage, classic and current. Strong on hidden gems and deep cuts. Outsider's take, not film-school posturing.
Anything horror-adjacent or audience-aligned. Streaming services (Shudder, Screambox, Tubi), horror-genre products, gaming, snacks for movie nights, sleep and lifestyle, security and VPN, 21+ beverage. Brands that want a real voice instead of a polished ad read convert best with my audience.
Options range from a single sponsored reel (starting at $1,500) to a full franchise month. Most common is a "full cascade": one reel across all platforms, a long-form Facebook video, a ScreamDesk article, and a Weekly Shiver newsletter feature. Multi-channel, one brand, one week.
Standard turnaround is one to two weeks from brief approval to live post. Rush jobs under a week are possible for established partners. Franchise-month campaigns are built over 30 to 60 days.
Email partnerships@randywstover.com directly, or fill out the request form on the media kit. Either way, you get a personal response, usually within 24 hours.
Oklahoma, USA. Central time zone. Available for video calls and remote brief alignment.
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