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vb. (context cinema English) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to disappear and become black.
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Fade to Black can refer to:
- Fade (lighting), in stage lighting, a change in light level; decreasing the level to complete darkness is a "fade to black"
- Fade to Black (novel), a Nero Wolfe mystery by Robert Goldsborough
- Fade to Black (video game), a 1995 sequel to Flashback
In film:
- Fade to Black (1980 film), slasher flick starring Dennis Christopher
- Fade to Black (2004 film), documentary about rapper Jay-Z
- Fade to Black (2006 film), starring Danny Huston as Orson Welles
- Bleach: Fade to Black (2008 film)
In music:
- Fade to Black: Memories of Johnny, an album by Tommy Cash, or the title song
- "Fade to Black" (song), a song by Metallica
- "Fade to Black", a song by Dire Straits from On Every Street
- "Fade to Black", as song by Apoptygma Berzerk
"Fade to Black" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as the first promotional single from its second studio album, Ride the Lightning. The song was ranked as having the 24th best guitar solo ever by Guitar World readers.
The song peaked at number 100 on Swiss Singles Chart in 2008. The song is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Fade to Black is an action-adventure game developed by Delphine Software International and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the 1992 video game Flashback. The game was released for DOS and PlayStation; planned Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn versions were cancelled.
Fade to Black is a 2004 documentary film about the career of US rapper Jay-Z. It also features many other famous names in hip hop music. This live concert at Madison Square Garden was meant to be Jay-Z's final performance, as he announced his intentions to retire from the industry.
Fade to Black runs through some of the major parts of Jay-Z's Madison Square Garden performance while cutting to Jay-Z and his exploits and showing the viewers where his inspiration comes from.
Fade to Black is a Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Robert Goldsborough, the fifth of seven Nero Wolfe books extending the Rex Stout canon. It was first published by Bantam in hardcover in 1990.
Fade to Black is set in the advertising world, and as such is a nice counterpoint to Stout's Wolfe novel Before Midnight (1955). Whereas the earlier book centres on jealousies within a large and established agency, and a nationwide perfume contest, the Goldsborough book is concerned with a mid-sized boutique agency coping with issues such as idea theft between ad agencies and television spots for the Super Bowl, which was still ten years in the future when Before Midnight was written.
Fade to Black is a 1980 American psychological horror film written and directed by Vernon Zimmerman, and starring Dennis Christopher, Eve Brent, and Linda Kerridge. It also features Mickey Rourke and Peter Horton in minor roles. The plot follows a shy and lonely cinephile who embarks on a killing spree against his oppressors while impersonating classic horror film characters, all the while stalking his idol: a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
The film was nominated for multiple Saturn Awards, with Eve Brent winning for Best Supporting Actress. Released in October 1980, Fade to Black was commercially unsuccessful, but later garnered a cult following. It was released on VHS home video in the mid-1980s by Media Home Entertainment. It was first released on DVD on August 24, 1999 by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
Fade to Black is a 2006 British political thriller film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Danny Huston as Orson Welles.
Usage examples of "fade to black".
Hobart would hand the case over to the FBI, who would pick the guy up and throw him in jail, and his network would fade to black.
She began to strain, forcing the blood back up her abdomen to her brain--whatever happened, she could not allow herself to fade to black.
Having seen 9,658 films and then some, he knows that in this final scene, as they walk away, the screen would fade to black.
I watched the twilight fade to black, and knew I would not sleep tonight.
What beauty, what form, what a goddam eternal verity, fade to black and ecstasy!
He enjoyed a glass of warm ale, and then another, strolling out onto the porch of the inn as the grayness began to fade to black.