Cinema Fearité

Great directors are not born, they’re made.  They hone their craft through years of putting all of their blood, sweat and tears onto a thin strip of celluloid, often with embarrassing results.  It’s no surprise that a director of Oliver Stone’s caliber would have a debut like Seizure.  Seizure was written (along with acclaimed horror […]

Three short years after bursting onto the horror scene with his directorial debut Hellraiser Clive Barker adapted his novel “Cabal” into the big screen monster movie Nightbreed.  Like Hellraiser, Barker both wrote and directed Nightbreed and, although not a commercial success, the movie has found a cult audience that is rabidly faithful.    Nightbreed is a movie […]

I Bury the Living is a very misleading film.  Judging from the title, it would seem to be an eerie Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.  Looking at the movie poster, one would think that it is a zombie splatter flick.  It is neither.  Directed by Albert Band (Ghoulies II) in 1958, I Bury the Living is […]

In 1978, director Richard Attenborough and writer William Goldman teamed up to parlay the success they had with their war film A Bridge Too Far into a psychological thriller.  The movie they ended up making was Magic, featuring a crazy looking ventriloquist dummy that is so terrifying, it still haunts the nightmares of anyone who […]

Before he made The Fly, The Dead Zone, Videodrome and Scanners in the 80’s, David Cronenberg wrote and directed The Brood in 1979.  Although not his directorial debut, The Brood was his first commercially successful film.  While by no means as popular as the films he would make in the decade after its release, The […]