In the 1940’s, RKO Pictures enlisted B-movie producer Val Lewton to bulk up the studio’s output with low-cost, high quality thrillers that would more than make back their budgets at the box office. At the same time, tired of the typecast monster films that he was making for Universal, Boris Karloff signed a three picture […]
Creature
Synopsis: An ex-Navy seal (Mehcad Brooks), his girlfriend (Serinda Swan) and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper (Sid Haig), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half-alligator. The legend has it […]
Cinema Fearité presents Fright (Dir. Peter Collinson 1971)
In the world of horror movies, there are few potential victims that are more vulnerable than that of the lone babysitter. Always female, and usually little more than a child herself, the babysitter is left alone with the children in an empty house, and a mysterious stranger inevitably shows up. In 1971, years before the […]
Beware ‘The Ides of March’ (2011); It’s A Taut Political Thriller That Feels All Too Real
In The Ides Of March (2011), George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, and Philip Seymour Hoffman deliver a political worthy of the Beware the Ides of March saying.
Cinema Fearité presents The Snorkel (Dir. Guy Green 1958)
This week’s Cinema Fearité is dedicated to Jimmy Sangster, who passed away on August 19th, 2011 at the age of 83. As one of the driving creative forces behind Hammer Studios, Sangster’s prolific writing has inspired generations of horror and suspense writers all over the world, and he will be sorely missed. Great Britain’s […]