A Critical Guide To Horror Film Series
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| Author | : Ken Hanke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2013-12-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1317928822 |
In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on older films such as the Universal and the Hammer series films on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy as well as putting more recent series into perspective, such as The Nightmare on Elm Street films. A well rounded review of these films and investigation into their success as a format, this useful volume, originally published in 1991, offers an attempt to understand the marriage of horror and the series film, with its pluses as well as minuses.
| Author | : Murray Leeder |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2018-01-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1501314424 |
An introduction to the horror film genre.
| Author | : Kim Newman |
| Publisher | : Harmony |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
Newman examines classic horror subgenres such as devil movies, psycho movies, and down-home movies and ferrets out common themes for a deeper understanding.
| Author | : Chris Vander Kaay |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2016-02-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786498374 |
More horror movies are produced and released each year than any other film genre. While horror enjoys broad popularity, many hardcore fans voraciously consume films from their favorite subgenres while avoiding others entirely. This says something interesting about the films and their audiences. This primer and reference guide defines and explores 75 alphabetically listed subgenres of horror film, from Abduction to Witchcraft and two Zombie subgenres. Each sizeable entry provides a critical survey of the subgenre, a detailed examination of its characteristic elements and themes, and a discussion of three or four exemplary titles as well as other titles of interest.
| Author | : Kim Newman |
| Publisher | : Carlton Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781787391390 |
Two seasoned, top horror experts lead the way through more than a century of fear with authority, humor, and encyclopedic knowledge. Packed with images of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, this fully updated volume--with reviews right up to 2017--traces the genre decade by decade, providing a witty and informative critique of more than 300 movies from all around the world, plus TV series and literature too. Kim Newman and James Marriott discuss both neglected gems and big-budget duds, from Frankenstein and Peeping Tom to It Follows, Get Out, The Babadook, and Mother , as well as material from countries as far afield as Japan and Brazil. These movies will continue to shock and delight viewers with their inventiveness and flair. Diehard and new horror fans will enjoy this superb, eye-opening look at their favorite genre.
| Author | : Eddie Falvey |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2021-01-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1786836351 |
The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the advancement of subgenres that reflect new and evolving fears. New Blood builds upon preceding horror scholarship to offer a series of critical perspectives on the genre since the year 2000, presenting a collection of case studies on topics as diverse as the emergence of new critical categories (such as the contentiously named ‘prestige horror’), new subgenres (including ‘digital folk horror’ and ‘desktop horror’) and horror on-demand (‘Netflix horror’), and including analyses of key films such as The Witch and Raw and TV shows like Stranger Things and Channel Zero. Never losing sight of the horror genre’s ongoing political economy, New Blood is an exciting contribution to film and horror scholarship that will prove to be an essential addition to the shelves of researchers, students and fans alike.
| Author | : John Kenneth Muir |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 845 |
| Release | : 2010-07-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786455012 |
John Kenneth Muir is back! This time, the author of the acclaimed Horror Films of the 1970s turns his attention to 300 films from the 1980s. From horror franchises like Friday the 13th and Hellraiser to obscurities like The Children and The Boogens, Muir is our informative guide. Muir introduces the scope of the decade's horrors, and offers a history that draws parallels between current events and the nightmares unfolding on cinema screens. Each of the 300 films is discussed with detailed credits, a brief synopsis, a critical commentary, and where applicable, notes on the film's legacy beyond the 80s. Also included is the author's ranking of the 15 best horror films of the 80s.
| Author | : John McCarty |
| Publisher | : Crossroad Press |
| Total Pages | : 634 |
| Release | : 2016-11-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
Combining both volumes of the original print editions, The Official Splatter Movie Guide, Volumes I & II is a dream come true for splatter aficionados: a film-by-film guide to more than eight hundred masterworks of blood and gore. Each listing contains the film's movie studio, date of release, running time, director, producer, writer, and actors, along with a synopsis and review of the film.
| Author | : Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2010-08-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0813550394 |
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.
| Author | : Peter Dendle |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2011-01-12 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786463678 |
Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.
