- Fangoria's
101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of
the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks - As the leading
name in the world of horror, Fangoria magazine has been the
source of information for fans of fright flicks for more than
twenty years—covering feature films, video games, comic
books, collectibles, and all aspects of horror entertainment.
Working closely with Fangoria’s experts, including Editor
in Chief Anthony Timpone, Adam Lukeman has compiled a must-have
guide for casual horror fans and hardcore horror junkies with
Fangoria’s 101 Best Horror Films You’ve Never
Seen. With a brief synopsis for each of the included films,
lists of cast and crew, “Terror Trivia,” and little-known
facts about these lesser-known but must-see gems, Fangoria’s
101 Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen offers a feast
of gruesome information. Featured here are flicks that were
dumped by their distributors or were initially flops, like
Cherry Falls, Manhunter, and Pumpkinhead, foreign winners
such as Cronos, The Vanishing, and Funny Games, and straight-to-video
sleepers waiting to be discovered, including Shadowbuilder,
Jack Be Nimble, and Nomads. There are even surprise entries
directed by industry giants—movies like George A. Romero’s
Day of the Dead, Brian De Palma’s Sisters, or Dario
Argento’s Opera—that are frequently overshadowed
by the filmmakers’ other, better-known works but are
worthy of further examination.
- The
Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia: Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About Scary Movies but Were Afraid to Ask
- This book will haunt you--until you get the answers right.
It is a devilishly delightful collection of 1,814 questions
and answers about the best and worst horror films ever made.
From the silent movies of the 1920s to the scream queens of
the 1990s, the topics range from vampires to werewolves to
haunted houses and mad scientists to creature features and
giant apes. More than 160 photographs infest the pages
of The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia, including
the greats of horror cinema like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff,
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Fay Wray, Ingrid
Pitt, and Barbara Steele. In addition to listings of the Top
5 films per subject, Lampley, Beck, and Clark have also noted
the highlights from the lives and works of the legendary stars
and directors who have made this genre popular across the
century. You'll never sleep without a nightlight again.
- Television
Horror Movie Hosts: 68 Vampires, Mad Scientists and Other
Denizens of the Late Night Airwaves Examined and Interviewed
- Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks
down a cobwebbed, candelabrad corridor. She stops, shrieks
hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good
evening, I am Vampira." Her real name is Maila Nurmi
and she was the first in a long line of television horror
movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations late-night
"grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ghoul or
mad scientist. This book covers the major hosts in detail,
along with styles and show themes. Merchandise tie-in and
fan reactions are also chronicled. The appendices list film
and record credits.
- Collecting
Monster Toys - Monsters of all shapes and sizes stalk
the pages of this entertaining and informative "creature-feature."
Over 600 color photos capture the incarnations of all
the ghouls, mutants, and vampires that ever sent chills up
your spine at the theater or in the den, from Alien r to Z-Ton
r. Monstrous banks, board games, costumes, fiendish figures,
model kits, and wind-ups are included! The collectibles covered
in this book range from the early 1960s, when monster toys
were first introduced, through the decade of the 1980s and
touch upon the recent fare of the 1990s. Whether you prefer
monsters from Hollywood or Japan, the silver screen or the
small screen, there is something in this book for you. Prices
for every item displayed are found in the captions, often
with loose and mint-in-package prices.
- Universal
Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror - From the 1920s
through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s
number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters
worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from
the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters:
A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters,
chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering
behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created.
Universal Studios Monsters is the most complete record of
the horror films of this legendary studio, with biographies
of major personalities who were responsible for the most notable
monster melodramas in film history. The stories of these films
and their creators are told through interviews with surviving
actors and studio employees. A lavish photographic record,
including many behind-the-scenes shots, completes the story
of how these classics were made. This is a volume no fan of
imaginative cinema will want to be without.
- Frankenstein:
A Cultural History - A lively history of the Frankenstein
myth, tracing its evolution from a Romantic nightmare to its
prominence in today's imaginative landscape. Frankenstein
began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva,
Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was
shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans
dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley
envisioned a story of human presumption and its misbegotten
consequences. Two centuries later, that story is still constantly
retold and reinterpreted, from Halloween cartoons to ominous
allusions in the public debate, capturing and conveying meaning
central to our consciousness today and our concerns for tomorrow.
From Victorian musical theater to Boris Karloff with neck
bolts, to invocations at the President's Council on Bioethics,
the monster and his myth have inspired everyone from cultural
critics to comic book addicts. This is a lively and eclectic
cultural history, illuminated with dozens of pictures and
illustrations, and told with skill and humor. Susan Tyler
Hitchcock uses film, literature, history, science, and even
punk music to help us understand the meaning of this monster
made by man. 68 illustrations.
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