The Horror Show Guide

Mike Mayo

Description

This cinefile’s guidebook covers the horror genre monstrously well! Find reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror!

Atomic bombs, mad serial killers, zealous zombies, maniacal monsters lurking around every corner, and the unleashing of technology, rapidly changing and dominating our lives. Slasher and splatter films. Italian giallo and Japanese city-stomping monster flicks. Psychological horrors, spoofs, and nature running amuck. You will find these terrors and many more in The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies.

No gravestone is left unturned to bring you entertaining critiques, fascinating top-ten lists, numerous photos, and extensive credit information to satisfy even the most die-hard fans. Written by a fan for fans, The Horror Show Guide helps lead even the uninitiated to unexpected treasures of unease and mayhem with lists of similar motifs, including …

Urban Horrors

Nasty Bugs, Mad Scientists and Maniacal Medicos

Evil Dolls

Bad Hair Days

Big Bad Werewolves

Most Appetizing Cannibals

Classic Ghost Stories

Fiendish Families

Guilty Pleasures

Literary Adaptations

Horrible Highways and Byways

Post-Apocalyptic Horrors

Most Regrettable Remakes

Towns with a Secret

and many more.

With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated gems, new devotees and discriminating dark-cinema enthusiasts alike will love this big, beautiful, end-all, be-all guide to an always popular film genre. With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, The Horror Show Guide is richly illustrated. Its helpful appendix of movie credits, bibliography, and extensive index add to its usefulness.

Sujets

• Communication Studies
• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• The Silence of the Lambs
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Evil Dead
• Le Silence des agneaux
• Rosemary's Baby
• Wes Craven
• Friday the 13th
• Psycho
• Evil Dead
• La Nuit des morts-vivants
• Halloween
• Frankenstein

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578594597
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo by John Marelli

Mike Mayo wrote the originalVideoHound’s Horror Show, along withVideo PremieresandWar Films. He also ed ited three volumes of theDVD Guide, and was the host of the nationally syndicatedMovie Show on Radio, also calledMax and Mike on the Movies. He has reviewed films forThe Washington PostandThe Roanoke Times. He is the author ofAmerican Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Mediaand the novelJimmy the Stick. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Mayo, Mike, 1948– The horror show guide : the ultimate frightfest of movies / by Mike Mayo. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9781578594207 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Horror films—Catalogs. I. Title. PN1995.9.H6M32465 2013 016.79143'6164—dc23 2012047065

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CONTENTS

Photo Credits [xi] Introduction [xiii] Appendix: Movie Credits [389] Index [445]

A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Abbott and Costello Meet … Series (1948–1955)  Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971) / Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)  Addams Family (1991)  Adams Family Values (1993)  Addiction, The (1995)  Afraid of the Dark (1991)  After.life  Alice Sweet Alice (1976)  Alien (1979) / Aliens (1986) / Alien 3 (1992) / Alien Resurrection (1997)  Alien Trespass (2009)  Alligator (1980) / Alligator II (1991)  Alone in the Dark (2005)  American Haunting, An (2005)  American Night mare (2002)  American Psycho (2000)  Ameri can Werewolf in London (1981) / American Werewolf in Paris, An (1997)  Amityville (1979– 2005)  Anaconda (1997)  Anatomy (2000) / Anatomy 2 (2003)  And Now the Screaming Starts (1973)  Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1974)  Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (1973)  Angel Heart (1987)  Apprentice to Murder (1988)  April Fool’s Day (1986)  April Fool’s Day (2008)  Arachnid (2001)  Arachnophobia (1990)  Arnold (1973)  Arrival, The (1996)  Art of Dying (1991)  Ashes and Flames (1995)  Astronaut’s Wife, The (1999)  Asylum (1972)  Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)  Attack of the Killer Toma toes (1978)  Attack the Block (2011)  Audition (1999)  Audrey Rose (1977)  Awakening, The (1980)  Awful Dr. Orlof, The (1962) B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Bad Moon (1996)  Bad Seed, The (1956)  Bad Taste (1987)  Banker, The (1989)  Basket Case

(1982)  Basket Case 2 (1990)  Basket Case 3 (1992)  Beast Must Die, The (1974)  Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)  Beast with Five Fingers (1946)  Beast Within, The (1982)  Beetlejuice (1988)  Before I Hang (1940)  Beginning of the End (1957)  Believers, The (1987)  Below (2002)  Beneath Still Waters (2005)  Billy the Kid versus Dracula (1966)  Birds, The (1963)  Bite Me (2004)  Bitter Feast (2010)  Black Cat, The (1934)  Black Cat, The (1981)  Black Christmas (1974, 2007)  Black Friday (1940)  Black Heaven (2010)  Black Room, The (1935)  Black Sabbath (1963)  Black Sunday (1960)  Black Swan (2010)  Blade (1980)  Blade II (2002)  Blade: Trinity (2004)  Blade of the Rip per (1971)  Blair Witch Project, The (1999)  Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)  Bless the Child (2000)  Blessed (2004)  Blob, The (1958, 1988)  Blood and Donuts (1995)  Blood and Roses (1961)  Blood Beach (1980)  Blood Feast (1963)  Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)  Blood Freak (1972)  Blood of Dracula (1957)  Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969)  Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)  Blood Orgy of the She Devils (1972)  Blood Relations (1988)  Blood Salvage (1990)  Blood Spattered Bride (1972)  Blood Ties (1991)  BloodRayne (2005)  Blood suckers (1971)  Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies (1982)  Boccaccio ’70 (1962)  Body Snatcher, The (1945)  Bones (2001)  Boogens, The (1981)  Boogeyman, The (2005)  Borderland (2007)  Boxing Helena (1993)  Brain Damage (1988)  Brain Dead (1990)  Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The (1962)  Bram Stoker’s Burial of the Rats

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(1995)  Breed, The (2006)  Bride of Franken stein (1935)  Bride of the Monster (1955)  Bride with White Hair (1993)  Bride with White Hair II (1994)  Brides of Dracula (1960)  Brood, The (1979)  Brotherhood of Satan (1971)  Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)  Bucket of Blood (1959)  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)  Bug, The (1975)  Buried Alive (2005)  Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962)  Burning, The (1981) C . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Cabin Fever (2002)  Cabin in the Woods, The (2012)  Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)  Call of Cthulhu, The (2005)  Candyman (1992)  Can dyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)  Cape Fear (1991)  Captivity (2007)  Carnival of Souls (1962, 1998)  Carnosaur (1992)  Carnosaur 2 (1995)  Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)  Carpenter, The (1988)  Carrie (1976)  Carriers (2009)  Case 39 (2009)  Cat and the Canary, The (1927, 1939, 1978)  Cat People (1942, 1982)  Cat’s Eye (1985)  Cave, The (2005)  Cemetery Man (1994)  Chain Letter (2010)  Changeling, The (1980)  Chasing Sleep (2000)  Children of the Corn (1984)  Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)  Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)  Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996)  Child’s Play (1988)  Child’s Play 2 (1990)  Child’s Play 3 (1991)  Bride of Chucky (1998)  Seed of Chucky (2004)  Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987)  Christine (1983)  Christmas Carol, A (1984)  C.H.U.D. (1984)  C.H.U.D. II: Bud the CHUD (1989)  Church, The (1989)  Climax, The (1944)  Closure (2007)  Cloverfield (2008)  Club Dread (2004)  Cobra Woman (1944)  Cold Sweat (1994)  Collector, The (2009)  Color Me Blood Red (1965)  Colour from the Dark (2008)  Coma (1978)  Comedy of Terrors (1963)  Company of Wolves (1984)  Conqueror Worm, The (1968)  Contagion (2011)  Count Dracula (1970)  Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)  Return of Count Yorga (1971)  Countess Drac ula (1971)  Craft, The (1996)  Crash (1996)  Craving, The (1981)  Crawling Hand, The (1963)  Crazies, The (1973, 2010)  Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)  Revenge of the Creature (1955)  Creature Walks among Us, The (1956)  Creep (2004)  Creeping Flesh, The (1973)  Creepshow (1982)  Creepshow 2 (1987)  Cronos (1993)  Cropsey (2009)  Crow, The (1994)  Crow, The: City of Angels (1996)  Cry of the Banshee (1970)  Cry_Wolf (2005)  Cube (1997)  Curse of the Demon (1957)  Curse of the Komodo (2004)  Curse of the Werewolf (1961)  Cursed (2005)

D . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Dagon (2001)  Dario Argento’s Trauma (1993)  Dark, The (1993)  Dark, The (2005)  Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)  Dark City (1998)  Dark Half, The (1993)  Dark Mirror (2007)  Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)  Dark Shadows (2012)  Dark Water (2005)  Darkman (1990)  Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)  Die, Darkman, Die (1996)  Darkness (2002)  Darkness Falls (2003)  Daughters of Darkness (1971)  Day of the Beast (1995)  Daybreakers (2009)  Dead Alive (1992)  Dead and Buried (1981)  Dead Man’s Eyes (1944) / Pillow of Death (1945)  Dead Ringers (1988)  Dead Si lence (2007)  Dead Snow (2009)  Dead Weight (2012)  Dead Zone, The (1983)  Deadly Bless ing (1981)  Deadly Friend (1986)  Death Bed (2002)  Death by Invitation (1971)  Deep Ris ing (1998)  Demon Hunter (1965)  Demon in My View (1991)  Demon Seed (1977)  Demons of the Mind (1972)  Deranged (1974)  De scent, The (2005)  Devil (2010)  Devil Doll (1936)  Devil Doll (1964)  Devil’s Advocate, The (1997)  Devil’s Backbone, The (2001)  Devil Rides Out, The (1968)  Devil’s Rain, The (1975) Devil’s Rejects, The (2005)  Dial Help (1988) Die, Monster, Die (1965)  Disturbing Behavior (1998)  Dr. Giggles (1992)  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, 1931, 1941)  Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)  Doctor X (1932)  Dog Soldiers (2002)  Dolores Claiborne (1995)  Donnie Darko (2001)  Donovan’s Brain (1953)  Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)  Don’t Look Back (2009)  Don’t Look Now (1973)  Dorian Gray (2009)  Dracula (1931)  Dracula (Spanish lan guage version) (1931)  Horror of Dracula (1958) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974)  Dracula (1979) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)  Dracula 2000 (2000)  Dracula II: Ascension (2003)  Dracula III: Legacy (2005)  Dracula, A.D. 1972 (1972)  Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)  Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)  Dracula’s Daughter (1936)  Drag Me to Hell (2009)  Dragon Wars: DWar (2007)  Dreamcatcher (2003)  Dressed to Kill (1980)  Drive Angry (2011)  Duel (1971) Dunwich Horror, The (1971)  Dust Devil (1992) Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) E . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Earth versus the Spider (1958)  Eaten Alive (1977)  Ed Wood (1994)  Eden Lake (2008)  Edward Scissorhands (1990)  Eight Legged Freaks (2002)  Embrace of the Vampire (1995)  Emerald Jungle (1980)  End of Days (1999)  End of the Line (2007)  Eraserhead (1977) 

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Evil Dead, The (1981)  Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)  Army of Darkness (1992)  Evil, The (1978)  Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)  eXistenZ (1999)  Exorcism of Emily Rose, The (2005)  Exorcist, The (1973)  Exorcist II, The: The Heretic (1977)  Exorcist III, The (1990)  Exorcist, The: The Version You’ve Never Seen (2000)  Dominion (2004)  Exorcist, The: The Beginning (2005)  Eye, The (2008) F . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Faculty, The (1998)  Fade to Black (1980)  Fall of the House of Usher (1960)  Fascination (1979)  Feardotcom (2002)  Fearless Vampire Killers; or, Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)  Feast (2005)  Fellini Satyricon (1969)  Fido (2006)  Fiend without a Face (1958)  Final Destination (2000)  Final Desti nation 2 (2003)  Final Destination 3 (2006)  Final Destination 3D (2009)  Final Destination 5 (2011)  Firestarter (1984)  Flatliners (1990)  Fly, The (1958)  Return of the Fly (1959)  Fly, The (1986)  Fly II, The (1989)  Fog, The (1980, 2005)  Forgotten Ones, The (2009)  Forsaken, The (2001)  Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)  1408 (2007)  Fragile (2005)  Frailty (2001)  Frankenhooker (1990)  Frankenstein (1910)  Frankenstein (1931)  Curse of Frankenstein (1953)  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)  Frankenstein Created Woman (1969)  Franken stein Meets the Wolfman (1943)  Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)  Frankenstein Un bound (1990)  Freaks (1932)  Freakshow (1995)  Friday the 13th (1980)  Friday the 13th Part II (1981)  Friday the 13th Part III (1982)  Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)  Fri day the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)  Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)  Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)  Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)  Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)  Jason X (2001)  Freddy versus Jason (2003)  Friday the 13th (2009)  Fright Night (1985)  Fright Night Part 2 (1988)  Fright Night (2011)  Frighteners, The (1996)  From Beyond (1986)  From Dusk ’til Dawn (1996)  From Hell (2001)  Frontière(s) (2007)  Funhouse, The (1981)  Funny Games (1997, 2007)  Fury, The (1978) G . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Galaxy of Terror (1981)  Gamara, Guardian of the Universe (1995)  Gate, The (1986)  Gate II: The Trespassers (1990)  Gathering, The (2003)  Generation XTinct (1997)  Ghost Breakers, The (1940)  Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)  Ghost

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Rider (2007)  Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)  Ghost Ship (2002)  Ghost Story (1981) Ghostbusters (1986)  Ghostbusters II (1989) Ghosts of Mars (2001)  Ghoul, The (1934)  Giant Spider Invasion (1975)  Ginger Snaps (2000)  Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)  God Told Me To (1976)  Godsend (2004)  Gojira (1954)  Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)  Godzilla (1998)  Golem, The (1920)  Gorgon, The (1964)  Gothic (1986)  Gothika (2003)  Graveyard Shift (1987)  Grem lins (1984)  Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)  Grindhouse (2007)  Grudge, The (2004) H . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Habitat (1997)  Halloween (1978)  Halloween II (1981)  Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)  Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)  Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)  Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)  Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later (1998)  Halloween: Resurrection (2002)  Halloween (2007)  Halloween II (2009)  Hand, The (1981)  Hands of Orloc, The (1960)  Hands of the Ripper (1971)  Hanging Woman, The (1973)  Hannibal (2001)  Hannibal Rising (2006)  Harvest, The (1992)  Haunted (1995)  Haunted Summer (1988)  Haunting in Connecti cut, The (2009)  Haunting of Molly Hartley, The (2008)  Haunting, The (1963, 1999)  He Knows You’re Alone (1980)  Heartless (2009)  Hell Night (1981)  Hellboy (2004)  Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)  Hellraiser (1987)  Hell bound: Hellraiser II (1988)  Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)  Hide and Seek (2005)  Hideous Sun Demon (1959)  High Tension (2003)  Hills Have Eyes, The (1977, 2006)  Hills Have Eyes Part II, The (1985)  Hills Have Eyes II, The (2007)  Hitcher, The (1986)  Hole, The (2001)  Hollow Man (2000)  Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus, The (1960)  Horror Express (1972)  Horror Hotel (1960)  Horror of Frankenstein (1970)  Host, The (2006)  Hostel (2005)  Hostel: Part II (2007)  Hostel: Part III (2011)  Hour of the Wolf (1968)  House (1986)  House II: The Second Story (1987)  House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)  House of Dark Shadows (1970)  House of Drac ula (1945)  House of Frankenstein (1944)  House of the Dead (2003)  House of the Devil (2009)  House of Wax (1953)  House of Wax (2005)  House on Haunted Hill (1958 & 1999)  Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007)  House on Sorority Row (1983)  House on Straw Hill (1976)  House that Vanished, The (1974)  Howl ing, The (1981)  Howling II: Your Sister Is a Were

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wolf (1985)  Howling III: The Marsupials (1987)  Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)  Howl ing: New Moon Rising (1995)  Human Centipede [First Sequence] (2009)  Human Centipede [Full Sequence] (2011)  Humanoids from the Deep (1980, 1997)  Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1923, 1939, 1957, 1982)  Hunger, The (1983)  Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 I Am Legend (2007)  Last Man on Earth, The (1963)  Omega Man, The (1971)  I Dismember Mama (1972)  I Know What You Did Last Sum mer (1997)  I Still Know What You Did Last Sum mer (1998)  I Sell the Dead (2008)  I Spit on Your Grave (1978, 2010)  I Walked with a Zom bie (1943)  I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)  I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)  Identity (2003)  Idle Hands (1999)  I’m Dangerous Tonight (1990)  In the Mouth of Madness (1994)  Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)  Inde structible Man (1956)  Infestation (2009)  Innkeepers, The (2011)  Innocent Blood (1992)  Inside (2007)  Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978)  Body Snatchers (1993)  Invasion, The (2007)  Invisible Man, The (1933)  Invisible Man Returns, The (1940)  In visible Agent (1942)  Invisible Man’s Revenge, The (1944)  Island of Lost Souls, The (1932)  Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1977, 1996)  Isle of the Dead (1945)  It! (1966)  It’s Alive (1974)  It’s Alive 2: It Lives Again (1978)  It’s Alive III: Is land of the Alive (1987)  It’s Alive (2008) J–K . . . . . . . . 203 Jack Be Nimble (1993)  JackO (1995)  Jack’s Back (1988)  Jacob’s Ladder (1990)  Jaws (1975)  Jaws 2 (1978)  Jaws 3 (1983)  Jaws: The Revenge (1987)  Jeepers Creepers (2001) Jekyll and Hyde (1990)  Jennifer’s Body (2009)  John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998)  Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey (1994)  Jurassic Park (1993)  Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997)  Jurassic Park III (2001)  Keep, The (1983)  King Kong (1933, 1976, 2005)  King Kong Lives (1986)  Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)  Kiss Me Kill Me (1973)  Kiss of the Vampire (1963) L . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Labyrinth (1986)  Lady Frankenstein (1971)  Lair of the White Worm (1988)  Lake Placid (1999)  Last Broadcast, The (1998)  Last Days of Planet Earth (1974)  Last Exorcism, The

(2010)  Last Horror Movie, The (2003)  Last House on the Left (1972, 2009)  Lawnmower Man (1992)  Legend of Hell House (1973)  Legend of the Werewolf (1975)  Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)  Leopard Man (1943)  Let the Right One In (2008)  Let Me In (2010)  Leviathan (1989)  Lifeforce (1985)  Lifespan (1975)  Link (1986)  Lisa and the Devil (1974)  Listen (1996)  Little Shop of Horrors (1960, 1986)  Living Death (2006)  Lodger, The: A Story of the London Fog (1926, 1944)  Lost Boys, The (1987)  Lost Continent (1968)  Lost Highway (1997)  Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The (2001)  Lost Souls (2000)  Lucinda’s Spell (1998)  Lust for a Vampire (1971)  Luther, the Geek (1990) M . . . . . . . . . . . 227 M (1931)  Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)  Mad Love (1935)  Magic (1978)  Manhunter (1986)  Maniac (1980)  Maniac Cop (1988)  Maniac Cop 2 (1990)  Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)  Manitou, The (1978)  Manmade Monster (1941)  ManThing (2005)  Mark of the Vampire (1935)  Martin (1976)  Mary Reilly (1996)  Masque of the Red Death, The (1964, 1989)  Mausoleum (1983)  May (2002)  Mega Python versus Gatoroid (2011)  Messengers, The (2007)  Midnight Meat Train, The (2008)  Mighty Peking Man (1977)  Milo (1998)  Mimic (1997)  Mirror, Mirror (1990)  Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994)  Mirror, Mirror 3: The Voyeur (1995)  Mirrors (2008)  Misery (1990)  Mist, The (2007)  Mr. Stitch (1995)  Modern Vampires (1998)  Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (1988)  Monolith Monsters, The (1957)  Mon ster on the Campus (1958)  Motel Hell (1980)  Mothman Prophecies, The (2002)  Mulholland Dr. (2001)  Mummy, The (1932 & 1959)  Mummy’s Hand, The (1940)  Mummy’s Tomb, The (1942)  Mummy’s Ghost, The (1944)  Mummy’s Curse, The (1944)  Murder Weapon (1989)  My Bloody Valentine (1981, 2009)  My Soul to Take (2010)  Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) N . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Naked Lunch (1991)  Nature of the Beast (1995)  Near Dark (1987)  Needful Things (1993)  Nest, The (1988)  Netherworld (1992)  Night Angel (1990)  Night Junkies (2007)  Night of the Comet (1984)  Night of the Creeps (1986)  Night of the Lepus (1972)  Night of the Living Dead (1968 and 1990)  Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)  Day of the Dead (1985 and 2008)  Land of the Dead (2005)  George

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Contents R . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Rabid (1977)  Raisins de Mort, Les (1978)  Rapture, The (1991)  Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)  Raven, The (1935)  Raven, The (1963)  Ravenous (1999)  ReAnimator (1985)  Bride of ReAnimator (1990)  Beyond ReAnimator (2003)  Reaping, The (2007)  [REC] (2007)  Red Dragon (2002)  Red House, The (1947)  Red Riding Hood (2011)  Relic, The (1997)  Repulsion (1965)  Resident Evil (2002)  Resi dent Evil: Apocalypse (2004)  Resident Evil: Ex tinction (2007)  Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)  Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)  Resurrected, The (1992)  Return of Dr. X, The (1932)  Re turn of the Living Dead (1985)  Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)  Return of the Living Dead Part III (1993)  Return of the Vampire (1944)  Revamped (2007)  Riding the Bullet (2004)  Ring, The (2002)  Ring Two, The (2005)  Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)  Rite, The (2011)  Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)  Rodan (1956)  Rogue (2007)  Rosemary’s Baby (1968)  Ruins, The (2008) S . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Salem’s Lot (1979)  Return to Salem’s Lot, A (1987)  ’Salem’s Lot (2004)  Santa Sangre (1989)  Saw (2004)  Saw II (2005)  Saw III (2006)  Saw IV (2007)  Saw V (2008)  Saw VI (2009)  Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)  Scalpel (1977)  Scanners (1981)  Scary Movie (2000)  Scream (1996)  Scream 2 (1997)  Scream 3 (2000)  Scre4m (2011)  Scream and Scream Again (1970)  Screaming Mimi (1958)  Season of the Witch (1972)  Secret Window (2004)  Seizure (1974)  Sentinel, The (1977)  Serpent and the Rainbow, The (1988)  Session 9 (2001)  Se7en (1995)  Seventh Sign, The (1988)  Severance (2006)  Sh! The Octopus (1937)  Shadow of the Vampire (2000)  Shaun of the Dead (2004)  Shining, The (1980, 1997)  Shock Waves (1977)  Shocker (1989)  Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)  Silent Hill (2006)  Silent Scream, The (1980)  Silver Bullet (1985)  Simon, King of the Witches (1971)  Sixth Sense, The (1999)  Skeleton Key, The (2005)  Sleepless (2001)  Sleepy Hollow (1999)  Slither (2006)  Slumber Party Massacre (1982)  Snakes on a Plane (2006)  Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)  Sole Survivor (1983)  Some thing Wicked This Way Comes (1983)  Some times They Come Back (1991)  Sometimes They Come Back … Again (1996)  Son of Dracula (1943)  Son of Frankenstein (1939)  Sorority Row (2009)  Soul Survivors (2001)  Species

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