Just like any successful horror film, the first Friday the 13th brought about a slew of imitators. Not only did the film spawn more than a half dozen sequels in the years that followed, but the early eighties also saw films like Sleepaway Camp and Madman hop on the bandwagon and provide their own spin […]
Cinema Fearité presents Sssssss (Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski 1973)
By the nineteen seventies, every filmmaker in the horror world was looking for something new to scare audiences, and the scurry led to some very original films. For every influential blockbuster frightfest like The Exorcist, Jaws, or Halloween, there were several lesser known but just as creative movies. One of these films that slipped through […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Soul of a Monster (Dir. Will Jason 1944)
As frightening as male characters can be, the role of the villain in horror movies has not always belonged strictly to guys; women can be every bit as terrifying, if not more so. Whether she comes in the form of an unstable woman, like Annie Wilkes in Misery, or a supernatural banshee, like the title […]
Safe Haven
Synopsis: An affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and Dear John. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community […]
Chan-Wook Park’s ‘Stoker’ Is A Hollywood Anomaly
Not only is Stoker a solid first screenwriting effort for Wentworth Miller, but it also takes a step forward for Chan-wook Park while still nodding back to his past.