Jack the Ripper is the perfect combination of murder mystery and a horror film with just the right amount of lovely ladies.
Cinema Fearité
Cinema Fearité presents The New Kids (Dir. Sean S. Cunningham 1985)
Ever since the resurgence of the slasher film in the early eighties, teenagers have been the staple victims in horror movies. Whether it’s a lone babysitter trapped in a dark house or a group of camp counselors stranded in the woods, the relative innocence and inexperience of adolescents make them ripe for the picking. In […]
Cinema Fearité presents Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Dir. Mario Bava 1970)
Serial Killer as anti-hero has been a popular motif in slasher films for as long as there have been slasher films. From the seminal Peeping Tom through the influential Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer to the over-the-top American Psycho, cold blooded murderers have always made a fun and different type of protagonist, one that […]
Cinema Fearité presents Don’t Look Now (Dir. Nicolas Roeg 1973)
Three things that have always made good fodder for horror films are ghosts, psychics and serial killers. In 1973, director Nicolas Roeg (The Witches) combined these elements in his film Don’t Look Now and, in the process, created one of the most frightening British films ever made. Don’t Look Now stars Donald Sutherland (MASH) […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Ghoul (Dir. T. Hayes Hunter 1933)
Although Boris Karloff had been making movies for years before he became the monster in Frankenstein, this signature roll opened the gates to offers for more monster roles and cemented his legacy as an icon in the horror genre. Tucked neatly within Karloff’s filmography between The Mummy and The Black Cat is a lost little […]