Masked killers are always scary, but the words “based on a true story” seem to magnify the effect. From The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Strangers, the claim that a horror movie is based on actual events gives it an air of authenticity that can be terrifying. In 1976, during the infancy of the […]
Rob Zombie Breaks Out Of His Zone Without Completely Abandoning His Style With ‘The Lords of Salem’
There is plenty of disturbing imagery in The Lords of Salem, but nothing to inspire nightmares like other Rob Zombie movies.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Bloody Birthday,’ A Film With Three Times The Killer Kids
One sure way for a horror movie to shock the public is to make the main villain a child, or a group of children. Some of the more frightening movies in horror history have employed this technique, ranging from a single kid in The Bad Seed and The Good Son to entire tribes in Children […]
Cinema Fearité Presents Slasher ‘Silent Scream,’ The Imitator That Should Have Been An Innovator
With the dawn of the eighties, slasher movies saturated the horror genre; spawned by the 1978 success of John Carpenter’s Halloween, scores of imitators made their way into theaters during what would become known as the Golden Age of the slasher film. Some of these films, like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm […]
Terrence Malick Out-Malicks Himself In ‘To The Wonder’
Synopsis: To The Wonder tells the story of Marina (Kurylenko) and Neil (Affleck), who meet in France and move to Oklahoma to start a life together, where problems soon arise. While Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Bardem), who is struggling with his vocation, Neil renews a relationship with a childhood sweetheart, […]