The teenagers-in-the-woods theme has been a staple of the horror movie for years, gaining the height of its popularity in the early eighties. Of course, when the stereotype is brought up, the first images that come to mind are those of the Friday the 13th movies, but the trope has been explored in many other […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Mad Love’ – Peter Lorre Cuts Up A Crazy Love Triangle
Things can get messy when emotions are involved, so love triangles make good backdrops for horror movies, even when two of the three parties don’t realize they’re in a trio. Whether in 1932 with Tod Browning’s classic Freaks or just last year in Chan-wook Park’s masterpiece Stoker, one thing is perfectly clear; when it comes […]
Cinema Fearité Bids Farewell To James Horner With One Of His Earliest Works – ‘Humanoids from the Deep’
Hollywood lost yet another star recently when composer James Horner was killed in a plane crash earlier this week. Horner is best known by movie buffs as the creator of the scores to Oscar-bait movies such as Titanic, Avatar, and Bravehart, but horror fans remember him for his earlier work on classics like Deadly Blessing, […]
Cinema Fearité Pays Tribute To The Late Great Christopher Lee With ‘The Wicker Man’
Last week, the horror world was rocked by the death of one of its most prolific actors, the iconic Sir Christopher Lee. Throughout his long and storied career, Lee got to play key villains in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, the Star Wars prequels, and the James Bond film […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘What Lies Beneath’ – Robert Zemeckis Makes A Big Hollywood Haunted House Movie
Over the years, some of the most memorable horror films have been made by directors who don’t usually work in the genre. The Exorcist, a film which is arguably the greatest horror film ever produced, is William Friedkin’s only pure horror film. After making Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow turned her attentions to Oscar-bait war movies. […]