Cinema Fearité

Alien invasion movies have always been incredibly fun to watch.  Whether they involve Roland Emmerich-style destruction, as in Independence Day, or subliminal political allegory, like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, aliens always strike a chord with audiences.  Interplanetary takeovers are hardly a new phenomenon, though – in the forties and fifties, years before manned […]

Ah, Christmas.  There’s something about the yuletide holiday that lends itself well to horror movies.  When it comes to movies about psychotic killers, Christmas is right up there with Halloween.  Since the central Christmas figure in the capitalistic world is Santa Claus, it figures that many slasher movies would feature madmen dressed as Jolly Old […]

Places like amusement parks and circuses have been captivating settings for horror movies for years.  From Tod Browning’s 1932 circus creepfest Freaks, through Tobe Hooper’s carnival slasher The Funhouse, right up to guerilla filmmaker Randy Moore’s surreal Disney freakout Escape from Tomorrow, fun places seem to get spooky when the light hits them just right.  […]

There are a handful of ways that a horror movie can get a reaction.  The most obvious way is for it to be absolutely horrifying, as is the case with films like The Exorcist and The Omen.  Another way is to make the film as gory as possible, as with Hostel and Saw.  Other films, […]

When it comes to holiday themed horror movies, Thanksgiving really gets the short end of the stick.  Of course, Halloween has all of the really good movies, and rightfully so, seeing as how John Carpenter’s Halloween essentially kickstarted the modern slasher genre.  Christmas has a pretty long list of entertaining films about it as well, […]