Synopsis: Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death. Release Date: March 23, 2018 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Film Review Production Writer/director Armando Iannucci has made a name for himself crafting witty social and political satire in fictional movies like Alan Partridge and television shows like […]
‘Unsane’ Feels More Like A Rough Draft Than A Finished Movie
Synopsis: A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear–but is it real or a product of her delusion? Release Date: March 23, 2018 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Thriller Film Review Production A couple of years back, Sean Baker made headlines by shooting his brilliant […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ – Horror Oscar Gold Twenty-Six Years Before ‘The Shape Of Water’
Horror fans everywhere are celebrating the Oscar success of Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, which won best picture and best director (among a handful of other honors), and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which took best original screenplay, at this year’s awards. Horror(ish) movies at the Oscars are rare, but not unheard of. The […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Demon Wind’ – The Other Other Original Cabin In The Woods Movie
Fueled by the success of the Friday the 13th and the Evil Dead franchises, the cabin-in-the-woods motif has become a staple of the modern horror movie. Sometimes it’s played for gore, as in Cabin Fever, and sometimes it generates real horror, as in Misery, but the trope itself is one of the most recognizable in […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Embryo’ – One Of The Forgotten Seventies Sci-Fi Classics
Sometimes, science fiction horror movies are subtle, like the modern classics Ex Machina and 10 Cloverfield Lane. Other times, they’re pants-poopingly frightening, like Alien and Event Horizon. Still other times, however, they walk the line, becoming so crazy that the viewer is unsure as to what to think, like Phase IV and Prophecy. And then, […]