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 […]
Mario Bava
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Evil Eye’ – A Hitchcockian Thriller From Italian Legend Mario Bava
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 […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Inferno’ – The Late, Great Keith Emerson Scores A Dario Argento Classic
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 […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Lisa and the Devil’ – Mario Bava’s Surreal Ghostly Slasher Mashup
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 […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘A Bay Of Blood’ – Mario Bava’s Prototype For The Golden Age Slasher
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 […]