Because of the overwhelming volume of Hollywood films that are made and the success of the horror genre, the modern horror movie is a fairly American phenomenon. However, the influence of European filmmakers on these films cannot be understated, whether those roots fall within the surrealism of German Expressionism or the eerie Gothicism of Britain’s […]
Robert Redford Drifts Aimlessly in ‘All Is Lost”
Synopsis: Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his […]
‘Captain Phillips’ Is A Surprising Mix Of Action And Character Study; And Pirates
Synopsis: Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is – through director Paul Greengrass’s distinctive lens – simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the […]
Cinema Fearité Presents Sidney Lumet’s ‘Child’s Play’ – A Film With No Talking Dolls, Just A Masterful Director And His Talented Cast
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 […]
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 […]