Cinema Fearité presents ‘The Old Dark House’, an unsung Universal horror movie where a woman plays the role of an old man.
Boris Karloff
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Die, Monster, Die!’ – A Lovecraftian Hammer-esque Creepfest From American International Pictures
For classic horror back in the day, there were basically two big studios; America had Universal Pictures and Great Britain had Hammer Film Productions. But, there were also smaller companies that pumped out movies as well, one of which was American International Pictures, headed up by uber-producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. AIP made and distributed B-movies, […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Man They Could Not Hang’ – The ‘Other’ Movie Where Boris Karloff Is Brought Back From The Dead
In 1931, Boris Karloff became a horror icon playing a character who was reanimated by a mad scientist in Frankenstein. But his star-making performance as the monster in James Whale’s classic Universal fright flick is not the only time that the talented Karloff has been brought back from the dead. In 1939, he once again […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Black Room’ Starring Boris Karloff At His Finest, With No Monster Makeup
By the middle of the thirties, Boris Karloff had already played the monster in Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein as well as the title role in The Mummy, all for Universal. Taking a vacation from monster roles, Karloff turned to Columbia Pictures for a chance to show off his acting chops, and the film […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Black Cat (Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer 1934)
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff both had successful and prolific acting careers before the 1930s, but the pair became horror icons when they were cast in their signature roles, Lugosi as the title role in Dracula and Karloff as the monster in Frankenstein, by Universal Pictures. As two of the crown jewels in Universal’s horror […]
