Author : Joseph Burgo
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 9780671429355
Author : Sean Abley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476651515
From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein), LGBTQIA characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have included "coded" content in their films with the homosexual experience translated into censor-friendly subtext for consumption by general audiences. Gradually, LGBTQIA characters and themes have moved from the background to the foreground as the horror genre has grown along with its audience's tastes and attitudes. Likewise, more and more LGBTQIA writers and directors have begun to offer their queer-centric takes on scary movies and today, "queer horror" is a thriving film genre. With more than 900 entries, this critical filmography is a comprehensive, critical, yet playful examination of the history of LGBTQIA content in horror films. Eight journalistic contributors dig into every era of scary movies, including the early silents, pre- and post-Hays Code content, grindhouse sleaze, LGBTQIA indies, and megaplex studio releases. From Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) to Don Mancini's Chucky films and everything in between, this collection explores what can be found at the intersection of "LGBTQIA" and "horror" in the film industry.
Author : Robert J Gannon
Publisher : Robert J Gannon
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 100503608X
The #31Days challenge is back for another deep dive into the world of horror. Every day in October, media critic Robert J Gannon watches, analyzes, and publishes new articles and reviews inspired by different horror films, TV series, and books. This year, 32 new essays went up just at Sketching Details. Themes for the challenge included anthology films, films directed by women, documentaries, queer horror films, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre series. #31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays, vol. 2 features 64 original essays on horror media, including an entire series of essays on The Outer Limits completed in October. Come explore the terrifying world of horror, including Halloween Kills, Nothing but Broken Teeth, Deadhouse Dark, and No One Gets Out Alive. #31Days also includes recommendations for additional horror media for each title discussed in the collection. Full list of subjects: #Like A Classic Horror Story Blind Sun Body Bags Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker Deadhouse Dark Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Extended Cut Good Manners Halloween Kills His House In Search of Darkness Knife + Heart Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Little Deaths Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau Lucky Lyle Nightbreed, The Director's Cut No One Gets Out Alive Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw Seance Southbound Spookers Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation The Mortuary Collection The Old Ways The Outer Limits The Swarm The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: A Family Portrait The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 The Wind Things Heard & Seen
Author : Abigail Waldron
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476687420
The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021). This is a historical look at the queer experiences of the horror genre's characters, performers, authors and filmmakers. Offering a fresh look at the horror genre's queer roots, this book documents how diverse stories have provided an outlet for queer people--including transgender and non-binary people--to find catharsis and reclamation. Freaks, dolls, serial killers, telekinetic teenagers and Final Girls all have something to contribute to the historical examination of the American LGBTQ+ experience. Ranging from psychiatry to homophobic fear of HIV/AIDS spread and, most recently, the alienation and self-determination of queer America in the Trump era, this is a look into how terror may repair a shattered queer heart.
Author : Millie De Chirico
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0762480017
Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see. In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films—primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s—with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white photography throughout. Go along for the ride with new takes on crime films, including The Honeymoon Killers and The Harder They Come. Witness one-of-a-kind horror in Bill Gunn's landmark vampire film Ganja and Hess and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s infamous and indescribable Hausu. Absorb the boundary-pushing documentary-style trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which throws you into indelible moments in the punk and metal music scenes. And marvel at pure '80s oddities like Mac and Me and The Garbage Pail Kids. From Possession to Polyester and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to Xanadu, no two films are alike in this compendium. Just sit back and prepare to be surprised, amused, and entertained by this celebration of the stars, filmmakers, and stories behind fifty of the most beguiling and unforgettable movies ever to hit the screen.
Author : David Kerekes
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1909394963
A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of magnetic tape inside a plastic shell – domesticated cinema as families across Britain began to consume films in an entirely new way. Demand was high and the result was a video gold rush, with video rental outlets appearing on every high street almost overnight. Without moderation their shelves filled with all manner of films depicting unbridled sex and violence. A backlash was inevitable. Video was soon perceived as a threat to society, a view neatly summed up in the term ‘video nasties’. CANNIBAL ERROR chronicles the phenomenal rise of video culture through a tumultuous decade, its impact and its aftermath. Based on extensive research and interviews, the authors provide a first-hand account of Britain in the 1980s, when video became a scapegoat for a variety of social ills. It examines the confusion spawned by the Video Recordings Act 1984, the subsequent witch hunt that culminated in police raids and arrests, and offers insightful commentary on many contentious and ‘banned’ films that were cited by the media as influential factors in several murder cases. It also investigates the cottage industry in illicit films that developed as a direct result of the ‘video nasty’ clampdown. CANNIBAL ERROR, a revised and reworked edition of SEE NO EVIL (2000), is an exhaustive and startling overview of Britain’s ‘video nasty’ panic, the ramifications of which are still felt today.
Author : Peter Normanton
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1780330413
An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the A-Z and accompanying notes, runs to 540 movies. The book includes the list of video nasties which the UK government attempted to ban.
Author : Lloyd Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1800859341
Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1982) is one of the most inventive and energetic horror movies of the last 40 years. Released during a period in which the stalk-and-slash cycle had blunted the horror genre of much of its creative edge, Raimi's debut feature transcends its small budget and limited resources to deliver a phantasmagoric roller-coaster ride, a wildly absurd and surreal assault on the senses. Still original enough to stand on its own and be considered as a genre classic, this book will explain its long-lasting appeal and impact. After detailing the unique circumstances of its origin, Lloyd Haynes goes on to analyse key aspects of the film's abiding success.The Evil Dead is one of a number of horror films which locate their terrors in a single setting and limited time frame. Haynes argues that it creates a 'bad dream' effect in which the nightmare is never-ending and increasingly horrific, and how the cabin-in-the-woods location is also a fine example of the 'bad place' motif which stretches back to the Gothic novels of the 18th century. The book goes on to consider what character traits Ash Williams, The Evil Dead's 'macho' male hero, shares with Carol Clover's 'Final Girl' model and how effective he is as a 'Final Guy'. Finally, it explores the critical approaches to the film, in particular its notorious reputation in Britain as a 'video nasty'.
Author : Joe Casey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781607066521
At one time, Butcher Baker was the preeminent, All-American superhero. Now he's ...getting laid. A lot. But one last mission could signal his return to glory, and now he's back on the blacktop.
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408817500
Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.
