Kate Spofford, author

Tag: horror movies

  • Christmas in July!: Silent Night continues…

    Christmas in July!: Silent Night continues…

    Okay, so remember last Christmas season when I posted about the magnificent (ly awful) Silent Night Deadly Night movie franchise?  Netflix decided* to send me the DVD “Silent Night” (yes, I still have the DVD option on Netflix, because I have quite the backlog of obscure horror movies to watch before I cancel it). Serial…

  • christmas horror story: Silent Night, Deadly Night

    This has to be one of the worst holiday horror movie franchises in existence.  It may also be the only holiday horror movie franchise, which makes it that much worse.  Where is Black Christmas 2?  Jack Frost 2?  No one asked for Gingerdead Man and its many sequels but we got them anyway, and that’s…

  • my favorite evil clown movies (aside from It)

    Stephen King’s It is generally considered the standard for the “scary clown” in horror movies, but there are so many other great ones! Here are my faves. Stitches (2012) (Stitches had quite the attitude, even before he died) Highlights: Killjoy (2000) (Killjoy the clown, apparently shooting someone with bullets from his mouth) This gem was…

  • what is it about slow covers of happy songs in horror movie trailers?

    It’s a trend that has been going on for years.  A slowed-down version of a song played during a horror movie trailer.  The slowness of the normally happy tune throws you off, and suddenly the song’s lyrics sound creepy.  Recently, I saw a trailer for A Cure for Wellness (2017): Took me a minute, but…

  • horror movies “based on a true story”: House of the Devil

    “During the 1980s over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive Satanic Cults… Another 30% rationalized the lack of evidence due to government cover ups… The following is based on true unexplained events…” This is the text which opens the 2009 film, The House of the Devil. What is true: The statistics…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 27: The Fog (2005)

    A rewatch for inspiring my upcoming Nanowrimo novel, which will involve mist and fog… This movie is surprising less about fog and more about people catching on fire and turning into mummies and ice?  Apparently the fog is so cold it freezes people?  The fog kinda reminds me of the sandstorm in The Mummy movies,…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 26: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

    After mentioning this in my recommendations a few days ago, I realized it was high time to give this one a re-watch. This is still one of my favorite “the beginning of the apocalypse” scenes ever.  And then when they finally get to the mall and the Muzak version of “Don’t Worry Be Happy” is…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 25 – The Purge: Election Year

    Somehow, this wasn’t as frightening as the real-life election year we’ve got going on.  I had a hard time paying attention to the politicians debating Purge Night on something like the 20th year of its occurrence, until a car blasting Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” rolled down the middle of an empty street and…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 23 – The Shining

    No matter how much Stephen King hates this adaptation of his book, I love it.  I also love the book form of The Shining, but they certainly are different animals. Right from the ominous music that plays as an otherwise innocent-looking Volkswagen drives through beautiful mountain landscapes, we know something is not right.  Something is…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 22: It’s Alive

    Whew, where to begin with this one!  Firstly, this is one of those horror movies trying to tell you a message, and the message is, “Birth control pills are bad!”  Lenore is pregnant with her second child after years of taking contraceptives, but something is different this time!  The baby is a monster! After the…