Throughout his career, Hitchcock returned again and again to stories of wrongfully accused men desperately trying to prove their innocence. From The Lodger to The 39 Steps and even Strangers on a Train, this theme is a specialty of Hitchcock’s. In The Wrong Man, Hitchcock would once again return to this theme, but what sets […]
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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 […]
The Three Flavors Of ‘The World’s End’
The World’s End is a film that cannot be summed up succinctly or without meandering off into a tangent or two. A face value it’s a story about reuniting with old friends and squashing, or rehashing, decades-old squabbles, but just underneath the surface is an homage to the body-swapping flicks of the ’50s. Buried even […]
Touch Of Noir: Hatred, Murder, Blackmail, And Humanity Plague Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers On A Train’
In his second film with Warner Bros., Alfred Hitchcock created what is arguably his best contribution to film noir. Dense and dark, Strangers on a Train (1951) was his most expressionistic and germanic picture in years, thanks to the moody, atmospheric cinematography of Robert Burks. Building on his success with psychopath Uncle Charlie in […]
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 […]
