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‘Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween’ Is An Instant Halloween Classic

October 11, 2018 by James Jay Edwards

A scene from Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.

After the Goosebumps movie a few years ago delighted both kids and adults, a sequel seemed all but guaranteed. Now it’s here. But can Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween live up to the standard set by its predecessor? The short answer is yes. Yes it can.

Filed Under: Adventure, Book Adaptation, Children and Family, Comedy, Entertainment, Movie Review, Movies Tagged With: Halloween, Jack Black, R.L. Stine

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘When A Stranger Calls’ – The Movie That Scared A Whole Generation Away From Babysitting

February 18, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

No matter how you slice it, babysitters make great Final Girls in horror movies.  The combination of being alone in a strange place and being forced to be responsible for someone else’s safety as well as their own makes a character a great victim…and a great heroine.  The babysitter motif has been explored in many […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Dana Kaproff, Fred Walton, Halloween, Steve Feke, The Sitter, Tony Beckley, When a Stranger Calls

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Hack-O-Lantern’ – A Halloween Occult Grave Robbing Slasher With A Beat

October 30, 2014 by James Jay Edwards

There is no scarier night on which to set a horror movie than Halloween.  John Carpenter’s Halloween revolutionized the entire genre, and Cinema Fearité has already discussed that particular date’s impact on movies like Trick or Treat, Trick or Treats, and Night of the Demons.  No matter how many Halloween movies that one is able […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Halloween, The Damning

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Scream of Fear’, A Hammer Film That Is Like Hitchcock With A Shyamalan Twist

November 7, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

In order for an audience to really be able to root for a horror movie protagonist, said protagonist has to have some kind of weakness or flaw, making them vulnerable.  This concept is the reason why many horror heroes are teenage babysitters or young schoolboys; these are the archetypes that are at a serious and […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: 2013, Halloween

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Night of the Demons’, A Halloween Party Slasher Without A Masked Murderer

October 31, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

Halloween parties are great settings for horror films.  What else but mischief and mayhem can be expected when a group of people, all dressed in their scariest costumes, gathers on the spookiest night of the year?  Add the inevitable Ouija board and séance, and the results are usually sheer terror, and that is what viewers […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: 2013, Halloween

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