Just like any successful horror film, the first Friday the 13th brought about a slew of imitators. Not only did the film spawn more than a half dozen sequels in the years that followed, but the early eighties also saw films like Sleepaway Camp and Madman hop on the bandwagon and provide their own spin […]
2013
‘Sound City’ Tells The Stories Behind The Songs
What does Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors have in common with Nirvana’s Nevermind? They were both recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California. Since its opening in 1969, Sound City has recorded an extremely diverse range of artists, everyone from Barry Manilow to Rage Against the Machine. It would have been difficult for anyone who […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Brotherhood of Satan (Dir. Bernard McEveety 1971)
In the world of horror movies, witches and the devil seem to go hand in hand; it’s always the Dark Lord himself that is behind the witchery. When children get dragged into the fold, things start getting really scary. A film made in 1971, right between Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen, called The Brotherhood of […]
Cinema Fearité presents The She-Creature (Dir. Edward L. Cahn 1956)
As frequently misunderstood concepts, reincarnation and hypnotism are pretty good subjects around which to base a horror movie. While one would think that a movie about past lives and mind control would lend itself to be a psychological thriller, 1956’s The She-Creature takes the concepts in another direction and becomes a full-fledged monster movie. […]
Russell Espinosa’s “Best In Film” 2012
Here they are, the best films of 2012–a personal list. 1. Zero Dark Thirty The film begins in complete darkness and all we hear are disturbing distress calls from the September 11 attacks, the capture of Osama bin Laden is still fresh in our minds, but our memories from over a decade ago instantly […]