Last week, Cinema Fearité examined the Dwain Esper 1934 exploitation/educational film Maniac. This week in our continuing Maniac series, we take a look at the 1963 Hammer Film Productions crime thriller called, of course, Maniac. Maniac is about an American painter named Jeff Farrell (Kerwin Mathews from Octaman) who, after a fight with […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Maniac’ – Dwain Esper’s Scaresploitation Classic
What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to horror movies, quite a bit. If you go too generic, you won’t pique peoples’ interest. If you’re too specific, you risk giving away plot points or, worse, including inside jokes in your title. But let’s face it; there are only so many good titles to go […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Phantasm’ – Remembering The Tall Man, Angus Scrimm
The horror community suffered yet another crushing blow this past weekend. As if it wasn’t enough that Wes Craven and Gunnar Hansen passed away this last year, another icon was lost when Angus Scrimm died on Saturday, January 9th. Over the years, Scrimm became a fixture in horror movies and television shows, appearing in dozens […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Sadist’ – The First Feature From The Late Great Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
On New Year’s Day, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, the man who shot blockbusters like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Deliverance passed away at the age of 85. During his long and prolific career, Zsigmond worked in just about every genre imaginable and photographed for everyone from Robert Altman to Brian De Palma, but he […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Scream For Help’ – An Early Teen Horror Mystery From A Young Tom Holland
There’s little doubt that Tom Holland is one of the most prominent Masters of Horror working today. He practically defined supernatural horror in the eighties as the director of movies like Fright Night and Child’s Play. Before he sat in the director’s chair, however, he did his time at the typewriter, penning scripts for underground […]