Blood Feast

Blood Feast
Author: Malika Moustadraf
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 195217709X

A cult classic by Morocco’s foremost writer of life on the margins. Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is the complete collection of Moustadraf’s published short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. A teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite of passage​,​ a man with kidney disease makes desperate attempts to secure treatment​, and a mother schemes to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Delighting in vibrant sensory detail and rich slang, Moustadraf takes an unflinching look at the gendered body, social class, illness, double standards, and desire, as lived by a diverse cast of characters. Blood Feast is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers.

Blood Feast

Blood Feast
Author: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Publisher: Fantaco Enterprises
Total Pages: 43
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Horror films
ISBN: 9780944735824

Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore

Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore
Author: Randy Palmer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476604649

Without a big budget, special effects team, or professional actors and crew members, Herschell Gordon Lewis created films that he himself admits were trash. Yet, while Gordon's softcore porn (The Adventures of Lucky Pierre) and heavy-duty gore (The Gruesome Twosome) were never blockbuster films, they were popular drive-in fare in the sixties and seventies. They have had a strong influence over more recent productions, and they have created for Lewis his own special niche in the world of exploitation and horror film. The history of Lewis the man and the filmmaker is a surprising one. Behind titles like Blood Feast and The Gore-Gore Girls is a warm and friendly gentleman whose road to his own brand of film glory was paved with disappointments, surprising successes, and lots and lots of fake blood. His career is examined in detail, with personal anecdotes and insights into making really gross movies on really small budgets. A filmography is included, and photographs, many of them rare, complement the text.

Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990

Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990
Author: Brian Albright
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-11-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786472278

During the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of the horror film genre were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers as of the major studios. From backwoods Utah to the Louisiana bayous to the outer boroughs of New York, independent, regional films like Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Evil Dead stood at the vanguard of horror cinema. This overview of regionally produced horror and science fiction films includes interviews with 13 directors and producers who operated far from mainstream Hollywood, along with a state-by-state listing of regionally produced genre films made between 1958 and 1990. Highlighting some of the most influential horror films of the past 50 years, this work celebrates not only regional filmmaking, but also a cultural regionalism that is in danger of vanishing.

Blood Mercy

Blood Mercy
Author: Vela Roth
Publisher: Vela Roth
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2022-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781957040028

In this kingdom, love is treason... Lio is an immortal Hesperine with fangs and dangerous magic, but he brings comfort into Cassia's cruel world. If she gives her heart to the enemy, will she and Lio survive the king's retribution?

Reel Terror

Reel Terror
Author: David Konow
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1250013593

From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome fear. His on-set stories and insights delve into each movie and its effect on American culture. For novices to all out film buffs, this is the perfection companion to this Halloween's movie marathons.

What's Eating You?

What's Eating You?
Author: Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501322419

Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions about the human condition? How do they critique our increasing focus on consumption? In what ways do they hold a mirror to our taken-for-granteds about food and humanity, asking if what we eat truly matters? Horror narratives routinely grasp those questions and spin them into nightmares. Monstrous “others” dine on forbidden fare; the tables of consumption are turned, and the consumer becomes the consumed. Overindulgence, as Le Grande Bouffe (1973) and Street Trash (1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like The Stuff (1985) and Poultrygeist (2006) illustrate, our food fights back. From Blood Feast (1963) to Sweeney Todd (2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an “eat or be eaten” world.

Watching the Wheels

Watching the Wheels
Author: Wayne Wood
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003-07-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781469739793

A collection of wisdom, humor, and tasteless remarks from Vanderbilt University's House Organ magazine: . Every morning when I would leave for work, he would give me the saddest look he could muster. If you know anything about beagles, you know that this is the canine equivalent of the death scene from Camille. When a beagle wants to look sad, he can roll his big brown droopy eyes up at you and pull his ears back, and you will do anything to make him happier. In fact, many beagles earn top commissions in the sales field by giving customers that sad look until they crack and buy whatever the beagle is selling. "I'll buy anything," the customers cry, throwing money at the beagle, "just stop looking at me like that!" . The voice-mail mantra, "Your call is very important to us" is always a lie. If my call were actually important to you, you would answer the phone instead of putting me on hold and playing an orchestral version of the old Buoys hit "Timothy." A portion of all profits from the sale of this book goes to the Jade Pasley Patient and Family Assistance Fund of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Cult Horror Films

Cult Horror Films
Author: Welch D. Everman
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1993
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780806514253

The first study of nearly 100 B movies noted for their unique "strangeness" -- Attack of the Fifty-foot Woman, the Killer Shrews, and others.

Sword Immortal is also charming

Sword Immortal is also charming
Author: Hu Liqun
Publisher: Sellene Chardou
Total Pages: 1339
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1304428451

The foundation of cultivating immortals is the same as every stage of reaching the immortal level, which is divided into early stage, middle stage and late stage