Decades of Terror 2020: 2010s Horror Procedurals

Decades of Terror 2020: 2010s Horror Procedurals
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778872174

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 2010s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Decades of Terror 2020: 2010s Horror Movies

Decades of Terror 2020: 2010s Horror Movies
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-03-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778871690

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror films from the 2010s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Decades of Terror 2020

Decades of Terror 2020
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 2010s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Years of Terror 2020

Years of Terror 2020
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2023-02-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778870635

This book contains 255 horror movie reviews; five of the best releases each year between 1970 and 2020. Each film description contains a synopsis, a rating, and a three-paragraph review.

Decades of Terror 2020

Decades of Terror 2020
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2019-12-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781652358510

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror films from the 2010s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked from best to worst. How many have you seen?

Icons of Terror 2020

Icons of Terror 2020
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-03-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778871801

This book analyzes 145 horror films grouped in 24 franchises. These franchises feature an antagonist, or villain, who has been present in all or most films. These antagonists are so iconic that they have, in all cases, generated multiple sequels. All movies included in this book are rated and ranked.

The Philosophy of Horror

The Philosophy of Horror
Author: Thomas Fahy
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813173701

Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or leave the movie theater. Whether serious, kitschy, frightening, or ridiculous, horror not only arouses the senses but also raises profound questions about fear, safety, justice, and suffering. From literature and urban legends to film and television, horror’s ability to thrill has made it an integral part of modern entertainment. Thomas Fahy and twelve other scholars reveal the underlying themes of the genre in The Philosophy of Horror. Examining the evolving role of horror, the contributing authors investigate works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), horror films of the 1930s, Stephen King’s novels, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining (1980), and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Also examined are works that have largely been ignored in philosophical circles, including Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1965), Patrick Süskind’s Perfume (1985), and James Purdy’s Narrow Rooms (2005). The analysis also extends to contemporary forms of popular horror and “torture-horror” films of the last decade, including Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006), as well as the ongoing popularity of horror on the small screen. The Philosophy of Horror celebrates the strange, compelling, and disturbing elements of horror, drawing on interpretive approaches such as feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, and psychoanalytic criticism. The book invites readers to consider horror’s various manifestations and transformations since the late 1700s, probing its social, cultural, and political functions in today’s media-hungry society.

POV Horror

POV Horror
Author: Duncan Hubber
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-11-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476650942

Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre. It reconceptualizes landmark films--including The Blair Witch Project (1999), Cloverfield (2008), Paranormal Activity (2009), and Man Bites Dog (1992)--as depictions of the lived experience and social legacy of psychological trauma. The author demonstrates how the frantic cinematography and ambiguous formulation of the monster evokes the shocked and disoriented cognition of the traumatized mind. Moreover, the frightening effect of trauma on society is shown to be a recurring theme across the subgenre. Close textual analysis is given to a wide range of films over several decades, including titles that have yet to receive any academic attention. Divided into four distinct sections, the book examines how found footage horror films represent the effects of historical and contemporary traumatic events on Western societies, the vicarious spread of traumatic experiences via mass media, the sublimation of domestic abuse into haunted houses, and the viewer's identification with the monster as an embodiment of perpetrator trauma.

Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Noir)

Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Noir)
Author: Maaza Mengiste
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617758272

Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don't. Maaza Mengiste’s story “Dust, Ash, Flight” has won the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Mystery Writers of America “Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and revenge. Some are surreal—fitting for a culture where, as Mengiste writes in her introduction, ‘there are men who live in the mountains of Ethiopia and can turn into hyenas.'” —Washington Post Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Maaza Mengiste, Adam Reta, Mahtem Shiferraw, Linda Yohannes, Sulaiman Addonia, Meron Hadero, Mikael Awake, Lelissa Girma, Rebecca Fisseha, Solomon Hailemariam, Girma T. Fantaye, Teferi Nigussie Tafa, Hannah Giorgis, and Bewketu Seyoum.

The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror
Author: Jay Anson
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982138262

“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).