Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA for short, is the fastest growing sport in the United States today. Combining the flash of professional wrestling with the brutality of boxing, MMA draws thousands to live events and sells millions of pay-per-view orders. MMA is also the subject of a new documentary from Vlad Yudin (who also made […]
‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ – The Tell-All Story Behind The Phony Literary ‘It Boy’
JT LeRoy was a real-life Cinderella: an androgynous boy with a truck stop prostitute for a mother who lived a life of drug addiction and sexual abuse before becoming a literary phenomenon when his first autobiographical book, Sarah, was published in 1999. JT LeRoy was also a fraud: an identity manufactured by writer Laura Albert […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Haunting’ – Robert Wise’s Horrifying Adaptation Of Shirley Jackson’s Terrifying Novel
With about forty feature films to his credit over a sixty year span, director Robert Wise was a fairly prolific filmmaker. He also was extremely versatile, with a resume that includes everything from Hollywood musicals such as The Sound of Music and West Side Story to science fiction epics like The Day the Earth Stood […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer’ – The Movie That ‘The Man’ Didn’t Want You To See
It would seem as if 4k restorations are all the rage in the horror world. Last year, Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre got one, as did George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and there’s one for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm on the books as well. Well, not to be outdone, it has recently […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Night Of Terror’ – A Bela Lugosi-Fueled Proto-Slasher With A Real Threatening Maniac
In retrospect, it would appear as if Universal Studios owned the American horror cinema market in the 1930s. In actuality, however, nearly every studio in town was making horror films just as prolifically during that decade, with RKO Radio Pictures (King Kong, The Most Dangerous Game), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Freaks, Mad Love), and Columbia Pictures (Black Moon, […]