101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die #pdf by Jay Schneider

Barron s Educational Series | ISBN:0764141244 | File Type: PDF, 416 pages | File size: 63.Mb | Feb. 1st, 2009
Film Guides Video Reviews: back cover The Cabinet of Dr Caligari a HAxan a Draca a Freaks a Bride of Frankenstein a The Wolf Man a Les Diaboliques a The Hills Have Eyes a Eyes Without a Face a Cat eople a sycho a Nosferatu a eeping Tom a The Birds a Onibaba Vij a Rosemaryas Baby a Night of the Living Dead a The Wicker Man a Donat Look Now a Hour of the Wolf a The Exorcist a The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jaws a Carrie a Suspira a The Omen a Dawn of the Dead a Halloween a Alien a The Shining a An American Werewolf in London a oltergeist a A Nightmare on Elm Street a Friday the 13th a Henry ortrait of a Serial Killer a The Vanishing a The Last House on the Left a Jacobas Ladder a The Silence of the Lambs a Candyman a Man Bites Dog a Scream a Ju on a Ringu a The Blair Witch roject a Odishon a Devilas Backbone a The Sixth Sense a The Others a 28 Days Later front flap From the ics of Georges MA c liA s and F W Murnau to the blood fests of Tobe Hooper and the great David Cronenberg 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die explores the enduring poparity of the horror flick Fascinating and disturbing these films expose our most primal fears our nightmares our terrors our vnerability and revsion our terror of the unknown and our fear of sex death or loss of identity The menace of a monster or spirit in a spooky mansion or along a deserted highway thrills and excites even as it horrifies Movie menace has come in many forms and has given rise to some of cinemaas most iconic characters from Boris Karloffas Frankenstein and Bela Lugosias Draca to Leatherface Carrie Candyman and Hannibal Lector One thing unites them allathe power to entice and repse simtaneously With insight from critics film historians and academics 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die applies knowledge and passion to over a century of vampires zombies killer clowns invasions from space homicidal preachers vacationing Satanists tongue slurping cannibals murderous demon children disturbed Vietnam vets and sentient machines After seeing these films will you ever sleep with the light off again back flap Steven Jay Schneider is a film critic scholar and producer with M A degrees in hilosophy and Cinema Studies from Harvard University and New York University respectively He is editor of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and 101 Sci Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die both published by Barronas as well as the author and editor of many other books on film