It’s graduation time, the point of the year where students switch the tassels over to the other side before tossing the whole cap into the air. Cinema Fearité’s quest to remain timely is just as fervent as any recent grads’ thirst for knowledge, so this week, we’ve got a movie that is both seminal and […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Final Exam’ – A Golden Age Slasher That Passes…With A Solid C-
In the world of slasher movies, there are two never-fail scenarios. The first is the killer-in-the-woods, which Cinema Fearité has explored several times over the years with features about Madman, The Burning, The Final Terror, Sleepaway Camp, and Just Before Dawn. The other is the university-kids-being-stalked motif, which we’ve covered with Terror Train and The […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Scream Bloody Murder’ – Early Seventies ‘Gore-Nography’ At Its Bloody, Splattery Finest
Nestled in between the low-budget horror days of the fifties and sixties and the golden age of the slasher in the eighties, there were some bloody good films made in the seventies. Of course, most people point to legendary classics like Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left and Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘A Bay Of Blood’ – Mario Bava’s Prototype For The Golden Age Slasher
The roots of the modern slasher movie can generally be traced back to 1960 and the release of Psycho and Peeping Tom. Between then and the late seventies, when the golden age of the slasher began with the release of films like Halloween and Friday the 13th, a handful of modest films kept the blood […]
