Roger Corman is the undisputed champion of the creature-feature, but few people know about his older brother, Gene, who got into the film business before Roger and also made some memorable monster movies. In 1959, Gene used many of Roger’s core team members and pumped out Beast from Haunted Cave, a quickly produced but cleverly […]
Classic Films
Cinema Fearité presents Trick or Treat (Dir. Charles Martin Smith 1986)
Before either of them were famous reality T.V. stars, Gene Simmons from Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath were serious musicians. In 1986, both rockers lent their names and talents to a heavy metal horror film called Trick or Treat, foreshadowing the career path they would follow in the decades to come. While Simmons’ […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Dir. Joseph Green 1962)
The fifties and sixties were a fertile time for B-movies, and everyone with a half-decent story idea and a little money could make a film that, little did they know, would be kept alive by cult followers and public domain archives. Written by producer Rex Carlton and director Joseph Green, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Prowler (Joseph Zito 1981)
The early eighties is regarded by most fans as the Golden Age of the slasher movie, an era ushered in by John Carpenter’s Halloween and kept in business by scores of cheaply produced yet well-received films full of gore, nudity and dying kids. In 1981, a bloody little film called The Prowler flew in under […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Manster (George P. Breakston & Kenneth G. Crane 1959)
After the success of Godzilla in 1954, Japanese filmmakers were tripping over each other to produce monster movies that would make money and entertain the masses. In 1959, United Artists of Japan teamed up with American production company Shaw-Breakston Enterprises to close out the decade with a different kind of monster movie, an American influenced […]