Before becoming a household name as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins toiled away for 25 years in Britain, playing roles in both movies and television. The classically trained actor cut his teeth performing in adaptations of works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, and portraying characters as diverse as Charles […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Witchfinder General’ – Vincent Price In His Most Sinister Role
The horror world is full of legends. In Hollywood, Universal Studios had Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney, Jr. Across the pond in England, the Hammer Horror pictures had Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. The biggest of these icons of fright, however, was Vincent Price. Price’s cultural impact transcended the horror world; he appeared […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Disconnected’ – A Crazy Little Slasher That Has To Be Seen To Be Believed
The fun thing about the horror genre is that just about anyone with the ambition to follow through can make a movie. Sometimes, as is the case with Halloween or The Blair Witch Project, the simple movies can become classics. All that stands between a filmmaker and the next big thing is having a creative […]
Cinema Fearité Presents Joan Crawford In ‘Strait-Jacket’
For better or worse, Joan Crawford left an indelible mark on Hollywood, and she is at her most Crawford-esque in William Castle’s Strait-Jacket.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Bloody Mama’ – Roger Corman’s Disturbing Gangster Movie
In horror movies, killing can sometimes be a family affair. Whether it’s the mutant backwoods kinfolk in Wrong Turn, the infamous Sawyer family from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, or the murderous Firefly clan of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, groups of villains just make more sense when they are related by blood. […]