Most horror movies are meant to be terrifying. Some, like Student Bodies or Saturday the 14th, are comedies first, going for laughs before scares. And then there are those movies which were made seriously, but wind up packed with unintentional laughs in addition to the thrills and chills. Night School is one of these films. […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Psychos In Love’ – Another Crazy Slasher From Gorman Bechard
A couple of years ago, Cinema Fearité explored a glorified student film from 1984 by now-music documentary filmmaker Gorman Bechard (Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements, Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart) called Disconnected. Well, in 1987, Bechard followed up the crazy Disconnected with the equally crazy Psychos in […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Suspiria,’ Dario Argento’s Colorful Surreal Masterpiece
Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) is legendary in horror circles for its slasherific death scenes and stunning cinematography and use of color.
Cinema Fearité Bids Auf Wiedersehen To Ulli Lommel With ‘The Boogey Man’
Last weekend saw the passing of the influential filmmaker Ulli Lommel. One of the freshest voices of the New German Cinema movement of the sixties and seventies, Lommel collaborated with both Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Tenderness of the Wolves) and Andy Warhol (Blank Generation) throughout his career, but he is best known by horror fans for […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Eraserhead’ – David Lynch’s Calling Card To The World Of Surreal Cinema
There are movies that are hits from the start, and there are movies that fade away into obscurity. And then there are movies that find their audience years later by playing to packed theaters at midnight to viewers who come back night after night, despite having seen the films several times over. The ultimate midnight […]