In the mid-sixties, writer/director Dan Curtis successfully injected vampires into a soap opera with “Dark Shadows,” a show that not only ran for over twelve hundred episodes, but also spawned a number of tie-in movies, a nineties television reboot, and even a 2012 Tim Burton/Johnny Depp big-budget reboot-of-the-reboot. Curtis was more than just “Dark Shadows,” […]
Richard Matheson
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Duel’ – An Evil Truck Jump-Starts Steven Spielberg’s Career
Everyone starts somewhere. Before horror icon John Carpenter made Halloween, he did the low-budget sci-fi nerd-fest Dark Star. Before George Lucas became a household name with the space opera Star Wars, he created the futuristic vision THX 1138. Even the debatably biggest name in filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, had to pay his dues; before the sharks […]
