Last week, Cinema Fearité celebrated Women in Horror Month by taking a look at Mary Harron’s American Psycho. We’re continuing the party this week by featuring another classic fright flick directed by a member of the fairer sex – Mary Lambert’s 1989 Stephen King adaptation of Pet Sematary. Pet Sematary is about a […]
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Cinema Fearité Celebrates Women In Horror Month With Mary Harron’s ‘American Psycho’ – A Mean-Spirited Slasher With A Feminine Gaze
In case you haven’t heard, February is Women in Horror Month. Although generally underrepresented, female filmmakers have made some of the most important (and most enjoyable) horror movies in history, from classics like Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre and Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark to more modern masterpieces such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘1984’ – The Late John Hurt In An Eerily Prescient Look At Things To Come
Not to get overly political, but it’s all over the news that the events of the first week of the Trump administration reminded enough Americans of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to rocket the 1949 book to the top of the bestsellers list again, almost seventy years after it was written. For those who don’t like […]
Cinema Fearité Bids Farewell To Miguel Ferrer By Taking To The Skies With ‘The Night Flier’
Just last week we lamented the fact that Cinema Fearité was turning into a memorial column for legends who have recently passed away. The bandwidth used to post that article had not even been calculated before another loss was suffered – Miguel Ferrer died of throat cancer at the age of 61. Most recognizable to […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Ninth Configuration’ – The Late William Peter Blatty’s ‘Other’ Movie
Lately, it seems almost as if Cinema Fearité has been more of a memorandum column for horror icons who have passed away than a weekly tribute to cool horror movies. Well, it happened again; William Peter Blatty died last week of plasma cell myeloma at the age of 89. Blatty will far and away always […]