Last year, Cinema Fearité dove into The Day After, the 1983 television movie that scared the hell out of an entire nation that was living on the brink of nuclear war. A year after the broadcast of that groundbreaking film, Great Britain came out with their own horrifying vision of the aftermath of an atomic attack. Since we are still, as a country, flirting with the reality of a nuclear incident, it seems like as good a time as any to take a good look at Threads.
Horror
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Liquid Sky’ – An Alien Movie With No Aliens…And Double The Anne Carlisle
For what is ostensibly an alien invasion movie, there is a distinct lack of aliens in Liquid Sky. It helps make it weirder than it already is.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Urban Legend’ – A Post-‘Scream’ Slasher With A Fun Gimmick
‘Urban Legend’ made all the campfire tales come true.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Vampyr’ – The Missing Link Between ‘Nosferatu’ And ‘Dracula’
When people think of classic vampire movies, two images instantly come to mind. The first is that of Count Orlok in the silent masterpiece Nosferatu. The second is Bela Lugosi’s brilliant performance as the title character in Universal Pictures’ definitive telling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The missing link between these two bloodsucking titans of cinema […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Lady In A Cage’ – Home Invasion With A Cagey Twist
Modern home invasion movies have lost their creativity, at least when compared to the classics. Sure, movies like The Strangers, You’re Next, and Breaking In are terrifying, but they’re as formulaic as movies come. The classic home invasion movies like Wait Until Dark, When a Stranger Calls (and its sequel When a Stranger Calls Back), […]