Download or read book School Slashers 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular subgenres converge. Film critic Steve Hutchison covers 50 excellent school slasher films and ranks them mathematically. A synopsis, five ratings, and a review are provided for each film. How many have you seen?
Download or read book School Slashers written by Steve Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular subgenres converge. Film critic Steve Hutchison covers 50 excellent school slasher films and ranks them mathematically. A synopsis, five ratings, and a review are provided for each film. How many have you seen?
Download or read book Slasher Films 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are 50 reviews of horror and horror-adjacent slasher films. In slasher films, characters die one by one at a steady pace. Each book in the Subgenres of Terror 2020 collection contains a ranked thematic watchlist.
Download or read book The Slasher Movie Book written by Justin A. Kerswell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with reviews of the best (and worst) slasher movies and illustrated with a collection of distinctive and often graphic poster artwork from around the world, this book looks at the political, cultural, and social influences on the slasher movie and its effect.
Download or read book School Films 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are 50 reviews of horror and horror-adjacent school films. School films take place in kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions. Each book in the Subgenres of Terror 2020 collection contains a ranked thematic watchlist.
Download or read book The Teenage Slasher Movie Book 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition written by J. A. Kerswell and published by CompanionHouse Books. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at the slasher movie sub-genre, its highs and lows, its origins, and how it has adapted to survive despite critical attacks"--
Download or read book Slasher Girls Monster Boys written by April Genevieve Tucholke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige, Carrie Ryan, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman, April Genevieve Tucholke, Cat Winters A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Each author draws from a mix of literature, film, television, and music to create something new and fresh and unsettling. Clever readers will love teasing out the references and can satisfy their curiosity at the end of each tale, where the inspiration is revealed. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From blood horror, to the supernatural, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for anyone looking for an absolute thrill.
Download or read book Going to Pieces written by Adam Rockoff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carpenter’s Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film’s most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot—the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and more than a bit of soft-core sex, the slasher film secured its legacy as a cultural phenomenon and continues to be popular today. This work traces the evolution of the slasher film from 1978 when it was a fledgling genre, through the early 1980s when it was one of the most profitable and prolific genres in Hollywood, on to its decline in popularity around 1986. An introduction provides a brief history of the Grand Guignol, the pre-cinema forerunner of the slasher film, films such as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and cinematic trends that gave rise to the slasher film. Also explained are the slasher film’s characteristics, conventions, and cinematic devices, such as the “final girl,” the omnipotent killer, the relationship between sex and death, the significant date or setting, and the point-of-view of the killer. The chapters that follow are devoted to the years 1978 through 1986 and analyze significant films from each year. The Toolbox Murders, When a Stranger Calls, the Friday the 13th movies, My Bloody Valentine, The Slumber Party Massacre, Psycho II, and April Fool’s Day are among those analyzed. The late 90s resurrection of slasher films, as seen in Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, is also explored, as well as the future direction of slasher films.
Download or read book Blood Money written by Richard Nowell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial logic, strategies and objectives of the American and Canadian independents that produced the films and the companies that distributed them in the US, Blood Money demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits; including Love Story (1970), The Exorcist (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease and Animal House (both 1978). Blood Money is a remarkable piece of scholarship that highlights the many forces that helped establish the teen slasher as a key component of the North American film industry's repertoire of youth-market product.
Download or read book My Heart Is a Chainsaw written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Download or read book Decades of Terror 2019 1980 s Slasher Films written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing slasher films from the 1980s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?
Download or read book Slasher School Days Paperback written by Clayton Overstreet and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Sharp is hardly a normal teenage girl. She's a hero, though it's hard to convince anyone of that when all they see are the dead bodies. Turns out when you kill werewolves, zombies, vampires, demons, and the cops find you standing over a bunch of chopped up apparently human bodies, the courts don't exactly take your word on what happened. But sometimes other people.. .and things... do. One day while chilling in a sanitarium Sally gets an offer to come to a school for supernatural killers. Given the choice between meals of gelatin and lithium or heading to a school full of undead psychos Sally decides to go. Now faced with every horror movie villain she's ever heard of as both her fellow students and teachers Sally has to survive the school year amid plots, massacres, and anything else they can throw at her. Though it soon becomes clear as she aces one test after another the question isn't just if she will make it out alive, but whether anyone else will.
Download or read book 200 Horror Movie Sequels 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I review 200 of my favorite horror movie sequels. The movies are ranked. Their position in the list is established by the sum of 8 types of ratings: stars, gimmick, rewatchability, story, creativity, acting, quality, and creepiness. How many have you seen?
Download or read book Best of Terror 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following recommendations represent the top 13% of 2250 horror movie reviews. I use a classification method that combines genres, subgenres, ambiances, and antagonists. My evaluation ratings are stars, story, creativity, action, quality, creepiness, and rewatchability
Download or read book Almanac of Terror 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-04-29 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following recommendation lists are based on 2400 horror movie reviews. Not unlike sport publications, fantasy leagues and role-playing games, the Almanac of Terror mixes and aggregates different statistics, facts, ratings and opinions. Movies are ranked. Classification methods include genres, subgenres, ambiances, and antagonists. Our different ratings are stars, story, creativity, action, quality, creepiness, and rewatchability.
Download or read book Slashers written by Thurston Howl and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven writers (including Faolan, Cedric G! Bacon, Nathanial "LeCount" Edwards, KC Alpinus, Patrick D. Lambert, Weasel, Arcane Reno, MikasiWolf, Thurston Howl, and Winter Darkraven) are sitting around a campfire telling their spookiest slasher stories in this collection. But what they don't know is that a real killer is in their midst, and even the authors themselves are in danger. Fully illustrated by Stedilnik, this book is one you'll want to read with all the lights on...and don't worry if you hear sounds outside your house tonight. The wolf is on the prowl.
Download or read book Decades of Terror 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film critic Steve Hutchison analyzes and ranks 100 horror and horror-adjacent movies of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s; a total of 500 recommendations that will keep you up at night! Each description includes a synopsis, a rating, and a short review.
