Hollywood lost another icon this week as influential writer Richard Matheson passed away at his home in Calabasas, California at the age of 87. Even if his name is not immediately recognizable, his stories certainly are. He wrote the most instantly recognizable episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and “Steel.” His […]
‘V/H/S/2’ Is A Fantastically Fun Horror Movie
Synopsis: Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static-white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Rodan’ – The Captain America to Godzilla’s Iron Man
American studios such as Universal and RKO discovered in the twenties and thirties that monster movies sold tickets, and it didn’t take long for the trend to travel overseas. While Britain’s Hammer Horror was busy rehashing their own versions of gothic Universal monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, Japan’s Toho Company found influence in the science […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Sentinel’, The Missing Link Between ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Amityville Horror’
Perhaps the oldest good versus evil story is that of God and Satan, and the struggle between the two powers has made for some memorable cinema. The seventies alone saw the making of two classics of the horror genre, The Exorcist and The Omen, both of which deal with the fight between the Church and […]
Brad Pitt Tries, But ‘World War Z’ Is A Very Boring Zombie Apocalypse
Synopsis: The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Release Date: June 21, 2013 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Horror Film Review Production You know that your favorite […]