In the nineteen eighties, every new cultural fad or trend seemed to inspire a horror movie. Cinema Fearité has already pointed out the horror world’s reactions to cable television (TerrorVision) and the home video revolution (The Video Dead), but it hardly stopped there. In the pre-internet days, people could call pay-telephone numbers that began with […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Friday the 13th: The Orphan’ – A Film That Has Nothing To Do With Jason Voorhees
Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th is inarguably one of the most successful horror franchises of all time, and for good reason. Not only did the series practically invent the campers-in-the-woods stereotype, but its villain, the hockey-mask wearing, machete-wielding Jason Voorhees, is so iconic that his image has become synonymous with the horror genre in […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Bad Dreams’ – Almost A Nightmare On Elm Street Movie Without Freddy
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In 1984, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street revolutionized the slasher movie. Because of this, the film spawned not only several sequels, but a number of rip-offs as well. There was the rock and roll film Dreamaniac. There were not one, but two Bollywood […]
Cinema Fearité Bids Farewell To Kate O’Mara With ‘The Vampire Lovers’
The horror world lost another one of its stars this weekend when Kate O’Mara passed away at the age of 74. O’Mara was most well known to American audiences from her work on “Dynasty,” and British fans remember her best from her stint on “Doctor Who,” but horror nerds know her as a Hammer girl. […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Spider Baby,’ Where Lon Chaney Jr. Meets Sid Haig
There’s a reason that spiders are essential to any Halloween party decor; they’re scary. That goes for movies, too. Whether in classic sci-fi films like Earth vs. the Spider or modern monster movies such as Big-Assed Spider, eight legged creepy crawlies have snuck their way into movies for as long as there have been movies. […]