Kate Spofford, author

Tag: horror movies

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 21: Re-Animator

    I was promised H.P. Lovecraft!  What I got were a few references and zero Cthulhu.  Well, I guess I haven’t actually read the Lovecraft novella this was based on (“Herbert West: Reanimator”).  My own fault.  I guess for me what was missing was a Lovecraftian “feel.”  This was straight out of the 80s. There are,…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Days 19 & 20: Killer Mermaid and the Presidential Debate

    Yesterday I had planned to finish watching Killer Mermaid after work, but instead chose to watch something more horrifying… the Presidential Debate.  Without going too much into politics, I will say that I feel like any outcome from this election will result in something awful. Part of what influenced my decision was the fact that…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 17: Blair Witch

    I was one of those people who bought into The Blair Witch Project hook, line, and sinker.  I totally thought it was real documentary footage.  I watch the mockumentary aired on TV about the Blair Witch.  And the whole thing freaked me out. I felt betrayed when I discovered that it was all a marketing…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 16: No One Lives

    So this movie was quite different from the Netflix description! What Netflix says: Driver and his girlfriend Betty kidnap Emma, a teenage heiress. They’re run off the road by robbers, who discover Emma and are determined to collect the reward for her safe return. But there’s something even more dangerous lurking in the woods. While…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Days 14-15: Miss Peregrine & Sanctum

    It’s been a busy couple of days!  Last night I went to see Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which isn’t exactly a horror movie but it has some very creepy elements.  I loved all of the books – unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the movie. If you have read the books, the…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 13: My Bloody Valentine 3D

    I’ve seen this one before, several times, but it was high time in the month to watch one of my favorites!  A few years back I made up a drinking game for this movie that had only 4 rules: Drink when someone dies Drink when someone says the word “Valentine” Drink when someone drops an f-bomb Drink…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 12: We Are Still Here

    Apparently I have watched this movie before, but I’d never rated it on Netflix so I watched it again… which tells you that yes, it’s good enough for a rewatch! This is the story of a grieving couple who, after losing their young son, move into a house in a strange community.  The mother feels…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 11: Hush

    A writer in a secluded cabin is stalked by a vicious madman.  Sounds like a typical horror movie, but here’s the twist: the writer is deaf.  She can’t hear him. In reading more about this film, I wished the director had been able to carry through his original premise, which was to basically have no…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 10 – Mercy

    I’ve been watching a lot of horror movies with creepy kids, so it was high time for a change and watch some creepy old people.  Mercy (2014) was something I had added to my Netflix queue because Chandler Riggs, who plays Carl on The Walking Dead, was in it.  I didn’t realize this was based…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 9: Rigor Mortis

    A gif on Tumblr reminded me that I’ve had this Chinese movie in my Netflix queue for a long time now – a little “look at how beautifully scary this is, don’t you want to watch me?”  Okay, I’m in! As with many Asian horror movies, the plot left me a little lost.  Basically a…