To say that the horror world lost an irreplaceable icon this past weekend when George A. Romero passed away is an understatement. Although he made movies about vampires (Martin), witches (Season of the Witch), and killer monkeys (Monkey Shines), and had some legendary collaborations with superstar horror writer Stephen King (Creepshow, The Dark Half), Romero […]
Zombies
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Invisible Invaders’, A B-Movie With Aliens…That Turn Into Zombies…Then Back To Aliens
One of the biggest challenges in making an alien invasion movie is giving the audience something new and different. Should the aliens be bobble-headed egg-brains like the campy classics in This Island Earth and Mars Attacks!, or should they be the sleek and swift, genuinely terrifying beings from Alien or Independence Day? In 1959, screenwriter […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Valley Of The Zombies’, A Very Different Kind Of Zombie Movie
Over the course of film history, zombies have evolved from the reanimated Haitian voodoo corpses in White Zombie to the swarming disease infected victims in World War Z. They have rambled aimlessly in Night of the Living Dead and sprinted purposefully in 28 Days Later. In 1946, Republic Pictures showed the world a zombie that […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Night Shadow’, A Fun Mix Of Slashers And Werewolves With A Kung-Fu Punch
The golden age of slasher films saw Hollywood struggling to find new and different horror movie killers. By the time the late eighties rolled around, mad murderer movies had become stale and passé, and studios were willing to do seemingly anything to find a way to refresh the genre. In 1989, the generically titled Night […]
Adapting ‘World War Z’: Will It Be Anything Like The Book?
After a series of production delays, that have included extensive re-writes of the script, re-shoots of principal photography, and release date changes, World War Z will finally be released in theatres June 21, 2013. An adaptation of the novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks, son of Mel […]
