In the early- to mid-seventies, frightening and unexplained “real” creatures were all the rage, fed in part by sensationalistic television shows like “In Search Of…” and “That’s Incredible!” The public seemingly couldn’t get enough of mysterious monsters like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, and filmmaker Charles B. Pierce decided to exploit the craze further […]
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Cinema Fearité presents Isle of the Dead (Prod. Val Lewton / Starring Boris Karloff 1945)
In the 1940’s, RKO Pictures enlisted B-movie producer Val Lewton to bulk up the studio’s output with low-cost, high quality thrillers that would more than make back their budgets at the box office. At the same time, tired of the typecast monster films that he was making for Universal, Boris Karloff signed a three picture […]
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, The Initial Buzz on What Looks to be The Worst Film of 2011
Bucky Larson: Born to be A Star is releasing this Friday, September 9th, 2011 in theatres across the country. In an attempt to see what “buzz” surrounded the film I turned to Twitter. Here are some of my favorite’s tweets, and possibly the source of the best laughs of the year: @kaboski8 i hope […]
Cinema Fearité presents Fright (Dir. Peter Collinson 1971)
In the world of horror movies, there are few potential victims that are more vulnerable than that of the lone babysitter. Always female, and usually little more than a child herself, the babysitter is left alone with the children in an empty house, and a mysterious stranger inevitably shows up. In 1971, years before the […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Snorkel (Dir. Guy Green 1958)
This week’s Cinema Fearité is dedicated to Jimmy Sangster, who passed away on August 19th, 2011 at the age of 83. As one of the driving creative forces behind Hammer Studios, Sangster’s prolific writing has inspired generations of horror and suspense writers all over the world, and he will be sorely missed. Great Britain’s […]