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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Piranha’ – Roger Corman’s Homage To ‘Jaws’

August 30, 2018 by James Jay Edwards

A scene from Roger Corman's 'Piranha.'

In 1975, the movie world was changed by Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws. And almost immediately, schlock filmmakers started imitating it, hoping some of the success would rub off. And some did. The Jaws clone trend has given us awesome movies like Orca, Tentacles, and even Grizzly. Oh, and Piranha.

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité, Entertainment, Horror, Movie Review, Movies Tagged With: Barbara Steele, Belinda Balaski, Bradford Dillman, Dick Miller, Heather Menzies, Janie Squire, Joe Dante, John Sayles, Keenan Wynn, Kevin McCarthy, Melody Thomas, Paul Bartel, Phil Tippett, Pino Donaggio, Richard Robinson, Rob Bottin, Roger Corman, Roger Richman, Vincent Prentice

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Midnight Hour’ – An Eighties Halloween Television Movie That Is More Treat Than Trick

October 29, 2015 by James Jay Edwards

One of the most fun parts of Halloween is seeing all the cool stuff that the holiday brings to television.  Annual Halloween programming floods the airwaves each year, from “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” to “Garfield’s Halloween Adventure.”  Regular series broadcast their own Halloween specials as well, from the “Treehouse of Terror” episodes of […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Bill Bleich, Cindy Morgan, Dedee Pfeiffer, Dennis Redfield, Dick Van Patten, Hank Garrett, Jack Bender, Jo Gieb, Jonelle Allen, Jonna Lee, Kevin McCarthy, Kurtwood Smith, Lee Montgomery, LeVar Burton, Macaulay Culkin, Mickey Morton, Peter DeLuise, Shari Belafonte, Shari Belafonte-Harper, Sheila Larken, The MIdnight Hour, Wolfman Jack

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