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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Ghostwatch’ – The Halloween Broadcast That Terrified A Whole Nation

January 25, 2018 by James Jay Edwards

In a post-The Blair Witch Project world, it’s difficult to fool the public with a faux-documentary, but before 1999, people were gullible.  Orson Welles caused panic with his radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds back in 1938.  In 1980, Cannibal Holocaust was so convincing that director Ruggero Deodato was brought up […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: BBC, Brid Brennan, Cherise Wesson, Craig Charles, Gillian Bevan, Lesley Manning, Michael Parkinson, Michelle Wesson, Mike Smith, Sarah Greene, Stephen Volk, Winston Ryder

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Gothic’ – Ken Russell’s Account Of The Night Frankenstein Was Born

August 18, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

It’s common knowledge that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was the result of a friendly writing competition between herself, her future husband Percy Shelley, the poet Lord Byron, and author/physician John Polidori.  While stuck indoors during the unseasonably rainy summer of 1816, the four writers took turns trying to scare each other with […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Frankenstein, Gabriel Byrne, John Polidori, Julian Sands, Ken Russell, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Mike Southon, Miriam Cyr, Natasha Richardson, Percy Shelley, Stephen Volk, The Vampyre, Thomas Dolby, Timothy Spall

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