Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Phantasm’ – Remembering The Tall Man, Angus Scrimm

The horror community suffered yet another crushing blow this past weekend.  As if it wasn’t enough that Wes Craven and Gunnar Hansen passed away this last year, another icon was lost when Angus Scrimm died on Saturday, January 9th.  Over the years, Scrimm became a fixture in horror movies and television shows, appearing in dozens […]

’12 Years A Slave’ Is A Moving Epic About The Power Of The Human Spirit

Synopsis: 12 Years A Slave is based on an incredible true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) […]

Film Review: ‘Valkyrie’

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Valkyrie is about Nazi men who were assembled to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II. Release Date: December 25, 2008     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, History Film Review Production The story the film delivers is fascinating and provides a glimpse into a historic moment that could have changed […]

Sorority Row

Synopsis: When five sorority sisters inadvertently cause the death of one of their sisters, in a prank gone wrong, someone decides the secret cannot be kept any longer and seeks revenge. Release Date: September 11, 2009     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Thriller Film Review Production As the film opens you are thrown into a teenage […]

Cinema Fearité presents The Mole People (Dir. Virgil W. Vogel 1956)

Science fiction films, particularly those creature features from the 1950s, usually dealt with aliens from another world traveling through space in an attempt to invade or colonize Earth.  But what about the beings who have always been here, hiding just out of sight?  Prolific television Western director Virgil W. Vogel (“Wagon Train” and “The Big […]