In 1978, John Carpenter’s Halloween ushered in the Golden Age of the Slasher Movie, spawning dozens (if not hundreds) of imitators. In order to separate themselves from the rest of the pack, many golden age slashers would take pride in their ability to come up with new and inventive ways to kill kids. It didn’t […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Neanderthal Man’ – Fifties Sci-Fi Filmmaking At Its Badly Best
There’s something pleasantly simple about fifties science fiction horror films. The early low-budget filmmakers would do things like stick a diving helmet on a gorilla suit (Robot Monster) or inject red dye into silicon jelly (The Blob), all in the name of creating memorable movie monsters. This naiveté carried over into the mad scientist films […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Duel’ – An Evil Truck Jump-Starts Steven Spielberg’s Career
Everyone starts somewhere. Before horror icon John Carpenter made Halloween, he did the low-budget sci-fi nerd-fest Dark Star. Before George Lucas became a household name with the space opera Star Wars, he created the futuristic vision THX 1138. Even the debatably biggest name in filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, had to pay his dues; before the sharks […]
Cinema Fearité Remembers Wes Craven By Tuning In To ‘Invitation to Hell’
This week, the horror world is once again reeling from the loss of one of its most influential figures; writer/director Wes Craven has passed away at the age of 76, a victim of brain cancer. Craven was the mastermind behind not one, but two of the greatest horror franchises ever thanks to his work on […]
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 […]