Several years ago, Cinema Fearité covered The Astral Factor, aka Invisible Strangler, which is a 1976 movie about a killer who has mastered the psychic art of astral projection, allowing him to commit his crimes without being detected. However, a year before The Astral Factor was made, in 1975, another movie beat it to the […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Creeper’ – It’s All About The Cat
Let’s face it. Cats are cool animals to have in horror movies. Whether it’s a classic like The Black Cat or a modern masterpiece like Cat’s Eye, a feline presence adds just the right amount of cuddly creepiness to any fright flick. Cats are even cute when they turn into the antagonists of the movie, […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Spider’ – Cronenberg’s Stepping Stone From Schlock Cinema To Hollywood Art
Even the slimiest of schlock filmmakers grows up eventually. Aside from Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi hasn’t looked back towards his Evil Dead days since The Quick and the Dead. Wes Craven took a break from making slasher movies to make his passion project Music of the Heart (with Meryl Streep and Angels Bassett, […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Vertigo’ – The Most Masterful Of Hitchcock’s Masterpieces
To horror fans, Alfred Hitchcock is best known as the director of Psycho, one of the pioneering movies of the slasher genre. But to cinema geeks, he is better known for what many consider to be his masterpiece – the 1958 classic Vertigo. Vertigo stars Hitchcock favorite James Stewart (Rear Window, Rope) as […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Amityville Horror’ – The Most Scrutinized ‘True’ Movie In History
One of the most tried and tested ways that Hollywood has found to sell horror movies to the public is to bill them as “based on a true story” or “inspired by actual events.” This piques the interest of moviegoers, no matter how dubious the claim may be. Case in point: the 1979 classic The […]