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True Horror Stories

Presents accounts of ghostly appearances, terrifying fires, alien sightings and encounters, terrorist activities, ecological disasters, and other occurrences that strike fear in people’s hearts.

Welcome to Our Nightmares, Behind the Scene with Today’s Horror Actors

George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Tom Hanks–many of today’s most celebrated actors began their careers on the sets of horror movies. However, the majority of performers in even the most popular horror films remain relatively unknown. This engaging collection of profiles introduces many of the actors behind the heroes, heroines, monsters and villains who

The Spark of Fear, Technology, Society and the Horror Film

The horror genre is continually being reinvented as societal fears evolve. As technology has developed and become ubiquitous in modern life, horror films have effectively played upon our increasing reliance on technology as a source of anxiety. Focusing on advancements from the advent of electricity to the Internet, this book explores how technology–ostensibly humanity’s means

Horror

Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign

Horror Stories 4, Terror at Your Door

Horror Stories 4: Terror at Your Door contains thirty scary tales as same as the previous books of Horror Stories series. This is really not a good idea to read this book in the night because the stories of this book are extremely terrifying. Horror Stories 4: Terror at Your Door is available only for

American culture and perception of women in horror movies

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies – Culture and Applied Geography, grade: A, University of Malta, language: English, abstract: Horror genre has its origins in the gothic 19th century novels like Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) or John Polidori’s The Vampire (1819). Even though horror movie is a typical European genre, it

80’s The Gold Decade Of The Horror Movie

A journey into the numerous Horror Films of the 80’s analyzed under a “religious” profile which is purely Catholic. The diversification of the analysis is, of course, an issue that interests us. In fact, of all the films taken into consideration, this journey not only gives a brief opinion of the film, but it also

Behind the Horror, True stories that inspired horror movies

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen’s greatest screams. Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein? Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror

A History of Horror, 2nd Edition

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 fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers

Horror Films of the 1980s

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