Horror fans love to complain about remakes, but there are times when a re-imagining does actually surpass the original. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a good example. So is Chuck Russell’s The Blob. Franck Khalfoun’s brutal interpretation of Maniac comes pretty close. And, of course, David Cronenberg’s The Fly has to be in the conversation. […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Evil Eye’ – A Hitchcockian Thriller From Italian Legend Mario Bava
Italian director Mario Bava is considered to be one of the pioneers of both the giallo and the slasher subgenres of horror movies. With films like A Bay of Blood, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, and Kill Baby, Kill to his credit, Bava’s work is usually seen as bloody and gruesome, but there was another side to […]
‘Command And Control’ Tells The Story Of A Nuclear Near-Miss
On September 18, 1980, a technician at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, dropped a tool that punctured the side of a missile, spraying rocket fuel into the silo. That may sound like a minor mishap, but the fact that the missile contained a nuclear warhead that was 600 times more powerful than […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Gate’ – A Good Horror Starter Kit For The Kids
Most people who are into horror movies consider themselves lifelong fans of the genre, but nobody’s first horror viewing experience was The Wizard of Gore or Cannibal Holocaust. Most childhood fans started off with the more kid-tested, mother-approved gateway horror movies like Something Wicked This Way Comes, Paperhouse, or, if they were lucky enough to […]
‘Arrival’ Takes A Classic Science Fiction Theme And Thrusts It Into The Modern Age
Synopsis: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications. Release Date: November 11, 2016 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Mystery Film Review Production Remember that old episode of “The Twilight Zone,” the one called “To Serve Man,” where aliens landed on Earth and all the humans were running around suspicious […]