Kate Spofford, author

Tag: horror

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 4 – Baskin

    Naturally, when I came across a Turkish horror movie, I had to watch it.  I’ve seen a lot of foreign horror movies, but never one from Turkey!  I have not seen any Turkish movies at all, so I really had no idea what to expect. This got a LOT more explicit than I thought it would –…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 3 – Hellions

    I did not have high hopes for this one, since Netflix showed the average rating as 2 stars.  How could this be?  You’ve got creepy kids in masks!  This is a surefire way to make a horror movie awesome. So Dora discovers that she’s preggers, and opts to stay home while her mom and little…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 2 – Opera

    Today’s horror movie was Dario Argento’s Opera (1987), a film so buried in my Netflix DVD queue that I’ve forgotten how or why I put it there. Dario Argento is considered one of the masters of horror, and yet I’ve always had sort of a “meh” feeling about his movies.  To be fair, I’ve only…

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Day 1 – We Are What We Are

    Feeling a bit hungry last night, I decided to watch a movie about cannibals. “We Are What We Are” (2013) has been sitting in my Netflix queue for a while, and I’ve heard generally positive things about it, although I wasn’t aware until now that it’s a remake of a Mexican film.  The good reviews…

  • New YA Horror Roundup just in time for Halloween

    Note: I received advanced copies of all titles from Netgalley except Sanctum.  All of these titles have been released except Creed, which comes out November 8, 2014. I was quite pleased to discover so many YA horror titles coming out over the summer and fall!  YA horror is my favorite genre, but in recent years it’s…

  • sweet dreams are made of dread

    I had a dream last night that was not scary.  Yet I woke up, heart pounding, everything in my body certain that something terrible was going on – maybe someone was in my apartment.  It took a good half hour for me to feel like it was safe enough for me to roll over, turning…