In modern Hollywood, swamps have emerged as effective go-to settings for horror movies. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing is easily the most recognizable example, but the locale was also featured in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive. Even more recently, the revisionist slasher Hatchet trilogy explored the trend, as did the throwback monster movie disaster Creature. The use […]
Alex Gibney’s ‘The Armstrong Lie’ Is The Story Of A Lifelong Liar Who Still Ends Up As The Hero Of The Story
In the sporting world, there are a handful of elite athletes who were able to rise head and shoulders above their competition. In the NFL, Jerry Rice not only still holds just about every major receiving record worth holding, but holds them all by such a huge margin that many will most likely never be […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Scream of Fear’, A Hammer Film That Is Like Hitchcock With A Shyamalan Twist
In order for an audience to really be able to root for a horror movie protagonist, said protagonist has to have some kind of weakness or flaw, making them vulnerable. This concept is the reason why many horror heroes are teenage babysitters or young schoolboys; these are the archetypes that are at a serious and […]
‘Dark Feed’ Is A Great Ghost Story That Is Hindered By Its Limited Budget
Synopsis: When a film crew moves into an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror film, they get more than they bargained for. The late nights and lack of sleep begin to take a toll, and the longer this crew works, the more the leaky, wet building seems to be […]
‘The Book Thief’ Finds Light In The Darkness Of War
Synopsis: A young girl (Sophie Nelisse) living with foster parents (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson) in Nazi Germany begins collecting forbidden books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee hiding in her home. Release Date: November 8, 2013 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Film Review Production Set in Germany at the onset of World War […]