Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies

Author: Michael Gingold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903254950
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In The Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies, celebrated writer, editor and critic Michael Gingold starts in the silent era and traces the history of the genre all the way through to the present day. From Universal Studios legends such as Frankenstein's Monster and the Mummy, to the big bugs, atomic mutants and space invaders that terrorized the 50s, to the kaiju of Japan and the ecological nightmares of the 70s and 80s, to the CG creatures and updated favourites of recent years - they're all here.

Frightfest Guide to Werewolf Movies

Author: Gavin Baddeley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913051020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Award-winning filmmaker Axelle Carolyn (Soulmate, Tales of Halloween) surveys the last 120 years of the ghost movie genre and reviews the 200 most memorable titles from across the globe. From timeless classics to recent blockbusters, quirky indies to international sensations, hidden gems to oddities, each of these movies has in some way contributed to the development of the ghost movie as we know it, in all its incarnations and cultural variants.

Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975

Author: Michael Guarneri
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474458130
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975.

The Frightfest Guide to Grindhouse Movies

Author: BUDDY. GIOVINAZZO
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913051112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

Something More Than Night

Author: Kim Newman
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1789097746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I’d read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together they will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.

Nightmare USA

Author: Stephen Thrower
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. Nightmare USA is the reader's guide to what lies beyond the mainstream of American horror, dispelling the shadows to meet the men and women behind 15 years of screen terror: The Exploitation Independents! Ranging from cult favourites like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil.

The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide

Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852865245
Category : Frankenstein films
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Fun-Filled Frightfest

Author: Matt Groening
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780060560706
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The cryptkeeper of comedy, Matt Groening, the creator of 'The Simpsons', presents his newest collection of hell–arious humour. Join Matt Groening, the King of Comic Chaos and the creator of America's favourite family, 'The Simpsons', as he cooks up a creepy cornucopia of knee–knocking, white knuckling, knee–slapping knick–knacks. Brace yourself for beer–bellied beasties, frozen cavemen, ghoulish groundskeepers, price–gouging Kwik–E clerks, wonderful wizards, drooling aliens, banned books, talking horses, defective duplicates and parallel worlds. If you have a taste for terror and a hankering for humour, satisfy your appetite with this deliriously delicious treat not for the faint of heart or the very ticklish!

Cannibal Holocaust and the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato

Author: Harvey Fenton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Stunning large-format full colour book about the creator of notorious, widely banned horror masterpiece Cannibal Holocaust. Full filmography, interview, reviews. Packed with ultra-rare gore-drenched colour photos, posters and video covers. First book ever to deal comprehensively with Deodato.

Blaxploitation Cinema

Author: Josiah Howard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Dazzling, highly stylised, excessively violent and brimming with sex, blaxploitation films enjoyed a brief but memorable moment in motion picture history. Never before, and never since, have so many African-American performers been featured in films, not in bit parts, but in name-above-the title starring roles. Here's a new and appreciative look back at a distinctly American motion picture phenomenon, the first truly comprehensive examination of the genre, its films, its trends and its far-reaching impact, covering more than 240 Blaxploitation films in detail. This is the primary reference book on the genre, covering not just the films' heyday (1971-1976) but the entire decade (1970-1980). Includes: film posters and ads