One of the most pointless disaster films of the twenty-first century was Pompeii, the 2014 action vehicle for “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harrington. But there’s a better Pompeii movie, and we’re not talking about any of the many interpretations of The Last Days of Pompeii. This week, Cinema Fearité takes a look at the […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Ruby’ – A Buried Jewel Of Seventies Schlock Horror
The seventies gave the horror world a ton of classic movies. Jaws scared people into not going into the water. Halloween struck fear into the hearts of babysitters everywhere. The Exorcist made people afraid of demonic possession. But, for every Jaws, Halloween, or The Exorcist, there were a dozen other movies that fell along the […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Don’t Answer The Phone!’ – Just Another Eighties Slasher Imploring You To Not Do Something
A while back, Cinema Fearité celebrated horror movies that urge audience to not do things, like Don’t Look in the Basement, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Don’t Look Now, and even Don’t Open Till Christmas. This week, we’ve got another movie that’s bossing you around, this time with an exclamation point à la mother! […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Let’s Scare Jessica To Death’ – A Hauntingly Slasherific Psychological Vampire Thriller
The seventies were one of the coolest decades in horror history. There were slashers, occult movies, vampire flicks, psychological thrillers, and old-fashioned ghost stories. And sometimes, as in the 1971 classic Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, there’s a lot of subgenre overlap. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death is about a woman, of course […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Frenzy’ – Vernon Sewell’s Non-Hitchcock Noir Thriller
A few months back, Cinema Fearité waxed upon the confusion that sometimes can be inspired by horror movie titles when we compared Witchtrap to Witchboard. But what happens when two movies from different decades share the same name? We saw it with the non-Chucky Sidney Lumet movie Child’s Play. We saw it with movies called […]