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: 9781578594603
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo by John Marelli
Mike Mayo wrote the original VideoHound’s Horror Show, along with Video Premieres and War Films. He also edited three volumes of the DVD Guide, and was the host of the nationally syndicated Movie Show on Radio, also called Max and Mike on the Movies. He has reviewed films for The Washington Post and The Roanoke Times. He is the author of American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media and the novel Jimmy the Stick. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Front cover images: Jack Nicholson in The Shining (Warner Bros./Kobal Collection), Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby (Paramount/The Kobal Collection), The Woman in Black (Hammer Film Productions/The Kobal Collection), Godzilla (Toho/The Kobal Collection), The Exorcist (Warner Bros./The Kobal Collection), Dawn of the Mummy (Harmony Gold/The Kobal Collection). Back cover image: Derek Graf in Zombieland (Pariah Films/The Kobal Collection). Other images: Shutterstock.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Photo Credits
Introduction
Appendix: Movie Credits
Index
A
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 Nightmare (2002) • American Psycho (2000) • American 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 Tomatoes (1978) • Attack the Block (2011) • Audition (1999) • Audrey Rose (1977) • Awakening, The (1980) • Awful Dr. Orlof, The (1962)
B
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 Ripper (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) • Bloodsuckers (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 (1995) • Breed, The (2006) • Bride of Frankenstein (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
Cabin Fever (2002) • Cabin in the Woods, The (2012) • Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) • Call of Cthulhu, The (2005) • Candyman (1992) • Candyman: 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: Th