Horror on television has been around since the fifties and sixties, but it only reached out towards the children’s television market in the nineties with shows like “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” and “Goosebumps.” Before long, Nickelodeon, the “Kid’s Network” and home of “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”, even branched into scary TV […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Sonny Boy’ – A Mute-And-Mutilated Assassin And David Carradine In A Dress
Let’s face it, some movies are just plain weird. Some are shockingly weird, like The Baby or Pink Flamingos. Some are surreally weird, like Eraserhead or any one of a number of films from Alejandro Jodorowsky. Either way, there is an entire unofficial subgenre of cinema that takes strangeness to a whole new level. Sonny […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Fly’ – The 1958 Masterpiece That Inspired A 1986 Masterpiece
Horror fans love to complain about remakes, but there are times when a re-imagining does actually surpass the original. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a good example. So is Chuck Russell’s The Blob. Franck Khalfoun’s brutal interpretation of Maniac comes pretty close. And, of course, David Cronenberg’s The Fly has to be in the conversation. […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Evil Eye’ – A Hitchcockian Thriller From Italian Legend Mario Bava
Italian director Mario Bava is considered to be one of the pioneers of both the giallo and the slasher subgenres of horror movies. With films like A Bay of Blood, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, and Kill Baby, Kill to his credit, Bava’s work is usually seen as bloody and gruesome, but there was another side to […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Gate’ – A Good Horror Starter Kit For The Kids
Most people who are into horror movies consider themselves lifelong fans of the genre, but nobody’s first horror viewing experience was The Wizard of Gore or Cannibal Holocaust. Most childhood fans started off with the more kid-tested, mother-approved gateway horror movies like Something Wicked This Way Comes, Paperhouse, or, if they were lucky enough to […]