Although no one doubts their physical prowess, it’s no secret that today’s professional wrestlers are as much actors as they are athletes. When a movie needs a certain type of personality, the filmmaker can usually turn to a grappler who wants to make a name for himself in Hollywood, whether as a hero, like Roddy […]
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Cinema Fearité presents The Fury (Dir. Brian De Palma 1978)
In 1976, Stephen King’s first novel, a memorable tale about a high school girl with telekinetic powers, was turned into the terrifying and successful movie Carrie by director Brian De Palma. Less than two short years later, apparently not finished with the extrasensory perception motif, De Palma’s next movie dealt with a pair of young […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Monolith Monsters (Dir. John Sherwood 1957)
Once the vampire and werewolf movies of the 1930s had run their courses, Hollywood producers turned to science fiction to get their monsters into theaters, pumping out alien invasion and radioactive creature movies by the dozens in the 1950s. In 1957, the studio whose name is synonymous with monster movies, Universal, made a film called […]
Cinema Fearité presents Something Wicked This Way Comes (Dir. Jack Clayton 1983)
Although it may seem that making horror movies geared towards children is a waste of time, it has been proven time and again that a film does not need to rely on blood and violence to be frightening. A tight thriller that can invoke fear in an audience without resorting to cheap standby methods of […]
Cinema Fearité Presents Audrey Hepburn In ‘Wait Until Dark’
Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin star in Wait Until Dark, a horror movie that has a terrifying game of cat and mouse finale you have to see.
