There is a treachery that comes with making a movie with a generic name. The trouble is that another film will invariably come along with the same title, causing confusion for fans and followers of both movies. For example, many do not realize that, before it was an Uwe Boll videogame adaptation in 2005, Alone […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Night Of The Creeps’: Zombies, Aliens, Axe Murderers, And Tom Atkins
With the advent of the B-movie and the coming of innovative, low-budget filmmakers like Roger Corman and Ed Wood, horror movies began to develop more creative and interesting monsters. Soon, viewers were treated to hybrid monsters, beasts that combined typical tropes into different (if not completely new) archetypes. Examples of this include the serial killing […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Schizo’, The Missing Link Between ‘Psycho’ And ‘Halloween’
When it comes to slasher movies, there are two generally accepted truths. First, it was films like Psycho and Peeping Tom that pioneered the genre in the early sixties. Second, the golden age of the slasher movie was ushered in by such highly influential films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th in the late […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Black Sleep’, A Different Kind Of Mad Scientist Movie
As one of the staple characters of the classic horror film, the mad scientist has been subjected to more than his share of stereotyping. When one thinks of the mad scientist, the image of Colin Clive in Frankenstein instantly comes to mind, the man screaming “it’s alive” excitedly over and over again while collapsing onto […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Cat And The Canary’, A Classic Universal Horror Film With No Monsters
There are few doubts that Universal Studios is one of the biggest influences on the horror movie genre, having had a hand in the production of fright films since the earliest days of the silent era. The name Universal is synonymous with monster movies, earning their reputation with classic films like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The […]