Cinefantastique Online

This category includes interviews, profiles, retrospectives, and articles that take you behind the scenes.

It’s big. It’s bigger. It’s the biggest! It is the oldest and largest science fiction, fantasy and horror literary convention in the Rocky Mountain region and it just finished celebrating its fortieth year! Robots crashed and tore into one another. Game wizards dueled with their thumbs. And visionaries who imagine far-off realms in their heads [...]

His tenure as James Bond may have been cut off before he achieved his ultimate goal - surpassing Sean Connery as cinema’s greatest super spy - but Pierce Brosnan did something very important: he helped bring the character back to life. The films had gone through a phase of self-parody during Roger Moore’s tenure, reaching [...]

The man perhaps most responsible for overseeing the James Bond franchise (along with his half-sister, Barbara Broccoli) is Michael G. Wilson. Wilson has been a part of the 007 series since with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME in 1977. Not only has he produced ten of the films; he also contributed to the scripts for [...]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: John D. Moreland of TheoFantastique kindly offers us this excerpt of his extensive interview with Joshua David Bellin, author of Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation.] I have read many books and academic articles that probe deeply into horror and science fiction film, television, and literature, but rarely can such analysis be [...]

Thanks to his role as Ash in the EVIL DEAD films, actor Bruce Campbell has earned a place in horror movie history as the as an undefeatable monster-killing uber-warrior, capable of dispatching hordes of Deadites with nothing more than a sawed-off shotgun and a chainsaw attached to the stump of his arm. The aura of [...]

The mastermind behind THE TOXIC AVENGER, TROMEO AND JULIET, and POULTRYGEIST reflects on his passion for pushing the envelope.
A somewhat tamer (ahem) version of this piece shot to the top of the leader board at Current TV, but for numerous reasons never made it to air. Here, for the first time, is the original, uncut [...]

The Zombie Auteur Explains HIs Approach to Creating Believable Horror.
George Romero shot to cult stardom in 1968 when he directed NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Russo. The film’s reputation is perhaps based mostly on its documentary style (black-and-white photograph, hand-held camera work), but in truth the script is [...]

Here’s SPLINTER’s back-to-basics approach to freaking out an audience: Get a bunch of people — in this case, a vacationing couple (Jill Wagner and Paulo Costanzo) and a hardened criminal and his main squeeze (Shea Whigham and Rachel Kerbs) — trapped inside a gas station, and have a Big Nasty try to get at ‘em. [...]

What started with a small core of avid viewers equipped with the first home VCRs continues now on the web through the work of fan-subbers. A brief look at the birth and evolution of anime fandom in the United States.
This was originally created for the Independent Film Channel to promote the broadcast debut of the [...]

On the one hand, you have the Russian director; on the other, you have Japanese animators who, out of necessity and by either accident or design, find themselves resorting to his theories to create a unique genre of film. A brief look into how a cinematic pioneer helped form what’s come to be known as [...]