Cinema Fearité

The woods has always been a great setting for a horror movie.  Whether the heroes are running from a mutant monster (Prophecy), battling one of God’s creatures (Grizzly), or fleeing from a masked madman (Friday the 13th), the disorientation and secluded surroundings are just as frightening as the antagonist itself in most of these movies.  […]

Because of the overwhelming volume of Hollywood films that are made and the success of the horror genre, the modern horror movie is a fairly American phenomenon.  However, the influence of European filmmakers on these films cannot be understated, whether those roots fall within the surrealism of German Expressionism or the eerie Gothicism of Britain’s […]

There is a treachery that comes with making a movie with a generic name.  The trouble is that another film will invariably come along with the same title, causing confusion for fans and followers of both movies.  For example, many do not realize that, before it was an Uwe Boll videogame adaptation in 2005, Alone […]

With the advent of the B-movie and the coming of innovative, low-budget filmmakers like Roger Corman and Ed Wood, horror movies began to develop more creative and interesting monsters.  Soon, viewers were treated to hybrid monsters, beasts that combined typical tropes into different (if not completely new) archetypes.  Examples of this include the serial killing […]

When it comes to slasher movies, there are two generally accepted truths.  First, it was films like Psycho and Peeping Tom that pioneered the genre in the early sixties.  Second, the golden age of the slasher movie was ushered in by such highly influential films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th in the late […]