With The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer focused on the Indonesian death squad killers; in The Look of Silence, the victims of Indonesian genocide speak.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Bad Ronald’ – As Scary As A Broadcast Television Movie In The Seventies Could Be
It’s said that everything old is new again, and of course, the sentiment is never more apparent than in the world of horror movies. Even when a newer film is not considered a sequel or a remake (excuse me, a reboot), its concepts and themes can still usually be traced back to some earlier film […]
‘That Sugar Film’ Does The ‘Super Size Me’ Thing With Sugar – And It’s Kind Of Scary
It’s been over ten years since Morgan Spurlock’s eye-opening sensational documentary Super Size Me showed people the evils of dining on a diet consisting of McDonald’s food and nothing else. That’s just enough time for a new generation of activists to latch onto That Sugar Film, a movie in which Australian actor Damon Gameau (“Raw”) […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Savage Weekend’ – One Of The Forgotten Proto-Slashers
The roots of the modern slasher movie can be found as far back as the early sixties in films like Psycho and Peeping Tom, but the subgenre really hit its stride in the late seventies and early eighties. The period that has come to be known as the Golden Age of the Slasher Film was […]
Journalist David Thorpe Asks The Tough Question, ‘Do I Sound Gay?’
One of the biggest stereotypes surrounding homosexual men involves their voices. Who doesn’t know the sassy, high-pitched feminine lisp that is used to both instantly recognize and incessantly parody gay men? In Do I Sound Gay?, journalist/filmmaker David Thorpe examines the “gay” voice, and makes a misguided attempt at ridding himself of it. Do […]