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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Whip And The Body’ – Mario Bava Explores Sexual Torture Fifty Years Before ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’

October 19, 2017 by James Jay Edwards

With the semi-ironic popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey movies, film fans everywhere are discovering the wonders of S&M and B&D.  Okay, not really, but the movie/book franchise has piqued the interest of “square” people and brought sexual domination to the pop culture forefront.  Of course, for horror fans, it was always there.  Way […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Carlo Rustichelli, Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Ernesto Gastaldi, Gustavo De Nardo, Luciano Martino, Mario Bava, The Whip and the Body, Tony Kendall, Ubaldo Terzano, Ugo Guerra

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Evil Eye’ – A Hitchcockian Thriller From Italian Legend Mario Bava

October 13, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

Italian director Mario Bava is considered to be one of the pioneers of both the giallo and the slasher subgenres of horror movies.  With films like A Bay of Blood, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, and Kill Baby, Kill to his credit, Bava’s work is usually seen as bloody and gruesome, but there was another side to […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: John Saxon, Lamberto Bava, Les Baxter, Leticia Roman, Mario Bava, The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Inferno’ – The Late, Great Keith Emerson Scores A Dario Argento Classic

March 17, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

On March 10th, 2016, influential keyboardist/composer Keith Emerson died of an apparent suicide.  Emerson was best known as a founding member of the prog-rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer (or ELP for short), but the maestro also dabbled in film scoring.  Arguably, his most famous score was the soundtrack to legendary Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Alida Valli, Daria Nicolodi, Dario Argento, Eleonora Giorgi, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Irene Miracle, Keith Emerson, Lamberto Bava, Leigh McClosky, Mario Bava, Romano Albani, Three Mothers Trilogy, William Lustig

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Lisa and the Devil’ – Mario Bava’s Surreal Ghostly Slasher Mashup

October 15, 2015 by James Jay Edwards

Often seen as the godfather of the Italian giallo movie and a pioneer of the modern slasher film, Mario Bava has made movies that deal with both the supernatural (Black Sunday, Kill Baby, Kill) and the evils of humanity (A Bay of Blood, Hatchet for the Honeymoon).  And sometimes, he mixed the two with horrifying […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Alessio Orano, Alfredo Leone, Alida Valli, Carlo Savina, Cecilio Paniagua, Eduardo Fajardo, Elke Sommer, Francesca Rusishka, Gabriele Tinti, Giorgio Maulini, Lisa and the Devil, Mario Bava, Roberto Natale, Romano Migliorini, Sila Koscina, Telly Savalas

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘A Bay Of Blood’ – Mario Bava’s Prototype For The Golden Age Slasher

October 9, 2014 by James Jay Edwards

The roots of the modern slasher movie can generally be traced back to 1960 and the release of Psycho and Peeping Tom.  Between then and the late seventies, when the golden age of the slasher began with the release of films like Halloween and Friday the 13th, a handful of modest films kept the blood […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Mario Bava, slasher

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