Cinema Fearité presents ‘Dead Again’ Cinema Fearité presents Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh doing melodratic schlock in ‘Dead Again.’ Writer/director/actor Kenneth Branagh is mostly thought of as a highbrow artist, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts who has adapted both William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie for the silver screen. As an actor, he’s […]
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Cinema Fearité Bids Farewell To Robert Axelrod With The Remake Of ‘The Blob’
Cinema Fearité presents ‘The Blob’ Cinema Fearité pays tribute to the late Robert Axelrod with ‘The Blob.’ This past weekend, a character actor named Robert Axelrod passed away. He was hardly a household name, but he was one of those journeymen actors who always kept working, earning his keep doing everything from voiceover work on […]
Cinema Fearité Goes Pre-Blair Witch With ‘The Last Broadcast’
Cinema Fearité presents ‘The Last Broadcast’ Before ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ there was ‘The Last Broadcast.’ Even though movies like Cannibal Holocaust and The Legend of Boggy Creek had done it before, The Blair Witch Project is generally credited with starting the whole found footage, faux-documentary style of horror filmmaking. But one year before, in […]
Cinema Fearité Presents One Of The Lesser Massacres, ‘Microwave Massacre’
Cinema Fearité presents ‘Microwave Massacre’ Massacre Movies are not all created equal. For every ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ there’s a ‘Microwave Massacre.’ When it comes to titling horror movies, the word “massacre” gets used a lot. Sometimes, the resulting movies launch classic franchises, such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or the Corman “Massacre” […]
Cinema Fearité Says Farewell To Peter Fonda With ‘Spasms’
Cinema Fearité presents ‘Spasms’ Cinema Fearité pays tribute to Peter Fonda by revisiting his creature feature ‘Spasms.’ This past weekend, Hollywood lost one of its legends with the passing of Peter Fonda. Fonda was best known for starring with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in the counterculture classic Easy Rider, but he worked all over […]