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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Wolf Blood’, The First Werewolf Movie…Kinda

July 11, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

Just about every modern horror movie archetype has roots that can be traced back to the silent film era.  Nosferatu the vampire chilled audiences a full decade before Bela Lugosi made Dracula into a household word.  Frankenstein hit the silent screens in 1910, twenty years before Boris Karloff’s iconic performance.  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Classic Films, Creature Feature, Monster Movies

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Rodan’ – The Captain America to Godzilla’s Iron Man

June 20, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

American studios such as Universal and RKO discovered in the twenties and thirties that monster movies sold tickets, and it didn’t take long for the trend to travel overseas.  While Britain’s Hammer Horror was busy rehashing their own versions of gothic Universal monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, Japan’s Toho Company found influence in the science […]

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Cinema Fearité Remembers The Influential Work Of Ray Harryhausen In ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea’

May 9, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

This week, the motion picture industry lost one of its most influential figures.  Special effects artist Ray Harryhausen passed away in London at the age of 92.  Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation techniques are the stuff of legends, from the ape in Mighty Joe Young (which won an Oscar for best visual effects) to the medusa in […]

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Cinema Fearité Presents The Most Far-Fetched And Fun Waterlogged Creature Feature ‘Tentacles’ (Dir. Oliver Hellman 1977)

March 7, 2013 by James Jay Edwards

When Jaws ushered in the modern monster movie era in 1975, moviegoers everywhere became terrified to go into the water.  Jaws was so effective that it spawned a bevy of aquatic imitators, each more strange that the last.  For several years after Jaws, audiences were treated to thinly veiled rip-offs like Orca in 1977, Piranha […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Classic Films, Creature Feature, Monster Movies

Cinema Fearité presents Octaman (Dir. Harry Essex 1971)

December 6, 2012 by James Jay Edwards

Monster movies are some of the oldest, most beloved horror movies.  As such, monster movies have also used every sort of cinematic technology to bring their beasts to life.  The mother of all monster movies itself, King Kong, has been made and remade three times in three different ways: in 1933 with stop-motion animation, in […]

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