Cinematographer John Hora, who collaborated with director Joe Dante on films including The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers and Matinee, has died.
He was 80. Hora died unexpectedly Feb. 9 of heart failure, the American Society of Cinematographers reported. A fan of the large-format films of the 1950s, Hora also served as DP on the Imax films The Journey Inside(1994) and Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (2000), and for 2012 releases, he photographed the documentaryThe Last Days of Cinerama and the short In the Picture, the first project created with the ultra-wide 35mm Cinerama format since 1962.
Hora and Dante teamed up for the first time on The Howling (1981), with the cinematographer "relying on a dramatic lighting approach featuring rich.
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