A while back, Cinema Fearité triggered ex-babysitters everywhere when we covered the 1979 classic When a Stranger Calls. Now, we’ve got sequel fever. It’s time to take a look at the 1993 TV movie When a Stranger Calls Back. Similarly to When a Stranger Calls, When a Stranger Calls Back begins with a […]
Dana Kaproff
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Empire Of The Ants’ – One Of H.G. Wells’ ‘Other’ Movies
British science fiction writer H.G. Wells was one of the most inventive and prolific writers of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, and it seems as if every one of his stories has been turned into a movie. Of course, there are the popular big name films, like The War of the Worlds and The Invisible […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘When A Stranger Calls’ – The Movie That Scared A Whole Generation Away From Babysitting
No matter how you slice it, babysitters make great Final Girls in horror movies. The combination of being alone in a strange place and being forced to be responsible for someone else’s safety as well as their own makes a character a great victim…and a great heroine. The babysitter motif has been explored in many […]