The horror world lost one of its most influential figures earlier this week with the death of filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis at the age of 90. Lewis earned the nickname “The Godfather of Gore” with his bloody schlock classics like The Wizard of Gore, The Gore-Gore Girls, and A Taste of Blood. He got his […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Haunting’ – Robert Wise’s Horrifying Adaptation Of Shirley Jackson’s Terrifying Novel
With about forty feature films to his credit over a sixty year span, director Robert Wise was a fairly prolific filmmaker. He also was extremely versatile, with a resume that includes everything from Hollywood musicals such as The Sound of Music and West Side Story to science fiction epics like The Day the Earth Stood […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer’ – The Movie That ‘The Man’ Didn’t Want You To See
It would seem as if 4k restorations are all the rage in the horror world. Last year, Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre got one, as did George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and there’s one for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm on the books as well. Well, not to be outdone, it has recently […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Night Of Terror’ – A Bela Lugosi-Fueled Proto-Slasher With A Real Threatening Maniac
In retrospect, it would appear as if Universal Studios owned the American horror cinema market in the 1930s. In actuality, however, nearly every studio in town was making horror films just as prolifically during that decade, with RKO Radio Pictures (King Kong, The Most Dangerous Game), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Freaks, Mad Love), and Columbia Pictures (Black Moon, […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Poor Pretty Eddie’ – A Surprisingly Artistic Exploitation Flick
Although they’re not always considered horror films, there can be little doubt that rape-revenge movies are horrifying. Some of them, like Wes Craven’s debut film The Last House on the Left, are well-crafted artsy experiences. Others, like Meir Zarchi’s infamous shocker I Spit on Your Grave, are more exploitive in nature. And some, like 1975’s […]