The TCM Classic Film Festival presentation of Cover Girl (1944) was special because, as festival godhead Robert Osborne declared in his typically informed and engaging introduction, it was the one screening for which he had allowed time in his busy schedule to watch in its entirety (it was some pressing matter, no doubt, that demanded […]
2012
TCM Classic Film Festival: Raw Deal (1948)
The TCM Classic Festival screening of Raw Deal (1948) left a large number of hopeful audience members shut out (the fact that there were still empty seats for Love Story across the way was no consolation). Part of the teething process for a festival that seems to double in attendance each year, but one that […]
TCM Classic Film Festival: The Macomber Affair (1947)
The collected works of Ernest Hemingway are popular for cinematic adaptation. One of the lesser known, and only adapted once for the screen, is Hemingway’s novel “The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber”. In 1947, Director Zoltan Korda, of the famous Korda family, brought The Macomber Affair to the big screen with the legendary Gregory […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Slumber Party Massacre (Dir. Amy Jones 1982)
Slasher filmmakers were poking fun at the sub-genre way before Wes Craven did it with Scream. Even in its infant stage, filmmakers who saw the familiarity in the gratuitous sex and violence would exploit it, usually without apology. After the success of killer-stalking-kids films like Halloween and Friday the 13th, any location with a group […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Screaming Skull (Dir. Alex Nicol 1958)
One of the earliest tricks that filmmakers would use to forecast fear into their audience is the use of a “warning,” a bit of fourth-wall breaking narration in the movie that would let the viewer know that they were in for some pure terror. From Edward van Sloan’s “it will thrill you, it may shock […]