Hollywood lost yet another legend last week when special effects makeup guru Dick Smith passed away at the age of 92. Smith was behind the effects makeup of some of the most important films in cinematic history, including The Godfather (and The Godfather: Part II), The Exorcist, and Taxi Driver. Unlike many unsung makeup artists, […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Amazing Transparent Man’ – More Than Just Another Invisible Man Movie
In the late nineteenth century, influential science fiction writer H.G. Wells gathered a group of serialized chapters together into what would become his novel The Invisible Man. The story’s idea has been filmed dozens of times throughout cinematic history, beginning with James Whale’s legendary 1933 Universal classic The Invisible Man and continuing into the 2000s […]
Cinema Fearité Says Goodbye To John Fasano With ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare’
This past weekend, the horror world lost yet another one of its icons when writer/producer/director John Fasano passed away at the relatively young age of 52. Fasano’s most famous work was done outside of horror, having written the screenplays for Another 48 Hrs. and Universal Soldier: The Return, but he also did solid work within […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Robot Monster’ – A Solid Contender For Best Worst Movie Ever Made
There are bad movies, and then there are Bad Movies. The first category includes movies that in some way are just inferior films, with little or no entertainment value. The second category, capital B and M Bad Movies, are movies that have substantial flaws and are universally loved in spite, or maybe even because, of […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Boys Next Door’ – A Gritty, Realistic Rampage Film That Goes Against The Slasher Grain
Following the success of pioneering films like Halloween and Friday the 13th, the eighties became so flooded with psycho killers that it is widely referred to as the Golden Age of the Slasher Movie. Movies like The Burning and The Prowler followed the formula closely, mixing violence with the sort of tongue-in-cheek comedy that would […]