As one of the staple characters of the classic horror film, the mad scientist has been subjected to more than his share of stereotyping. When one thinks of the mad scientist, the image of Colin Clive in Frankenstein instantly comes to mind, the man screaming “it’s alive” excitedly over and over again while collapsing onto […]
Classic Films
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Cat And The Canary’, A Classic Universal Horror Film With No Monsters
There are few doubts that Universal Studios is one of the biggest influences on the horror movie genre, having had a hand in the production of fright films since the earliest days of the silent era. The name Universal is synonymous with monster movies, earning their reputation with classic films like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Videodrome’, David Cronenberg’s Masterpiece Of Disturbing Technophobic Imagery
In the early nineteen eighties, with the slasher movie craze in full effect, a handful of directors were already trying to break the horror movie mold. John Carpenter, the man who ushered in the golden age of the slasher movie with Halloween, was remaking Howard Hawks’ The Thing. Tobe Hooper was trading in serial killers […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Burnt Offerings’, One Of The Creepiest Films From An Icon Of Horror, Karen Black
The horror world lost another legend last week as Hollywood mourned the passing of Karen Black. Black was well known to fright film fans for her tour-de-force quadruple performance in the seminal television movie “Trilogy of Terror,” but the actress was far more than a genre actress, appearing in such influential films as Robert Altman’s […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Killer Shrews’, A Fifties Creature Feature With Bite
Monster movies are fun. Whether they play on serious fears, such as films like Jaws and Alligator, or take a more tongue-in-cheek approach, with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Slugs: The Movie, monster movies make for great horror films. The classic science fiction era of the fifties had no shortage of cool monster movies, […]
