Horror Cinema
by Jonathan Penner, Paul Duncan (Editor), Steven Jay Schneider (Author)
Taschen Basic Film
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Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with the finest slashers, ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and more, curating the very creepiest screen creations from the flickering spooks of the 1920s to the special-effect terrors of the 21st century. Across 10 illustrated chapters, the compendium gets under the skin of some of horror's favorite figures and themes, whether the vampire, the haunted house, show more the female killer, or the werewolf. Each classic device is explored in aesthetic and historical terms, probing horror's manipulation of archetypal human fears as much as socially and culturally specific anxieties. A subsequent Top 50 movies section brings readers up close and trembling with 50 horror showpieces, from black-and-white classics like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Godzilla to Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, and much, much more. Throughout, the book's featured images include movie posters, set designs, film stills, and on-set shots. show lessTags
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Something of a coffee table book, something of a guide to the horror genre. Comprehensive enough as a introduction, explaining a bunch of conventions and subgenres before listing some notable classics. Nothing too shocking in the picks of Best Movies nor the description of why said movies are the best, but enjoyable. I wish the book was physically larger, like a proper coffee table book, so I could appreciate the images more. The font size would probably be easier on the eyes as well.
Great pictures, solid synopses of some of cinema’s best horror films and a breakdown of horror movies by categories such as, The Living Dead, Slashers and Serial Killers, Ghosts and Haunted Houses, and Voodoo, Cults, & Satanists, just to mention a few, are all part of this beautiful coffee table book.
GREAT photos. Get this book for the photos, not the text. Text is okay, but again, photos are GREAT.
Purdy pictures, but text utterly ignorable. A waste.
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