Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie Franchises written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child’s Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead – Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie Franchises written by Steve Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child's Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead - Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie Franchises 2 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child’s Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead, Cube, Night of the Demons, Jaws, Psycho – Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie Franchises 2 written by Steve Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child's Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead, Cube, Night of the Demons, Jaws, Psycho - Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie written by Christian Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Favorite Horror Movie is a ghoulish celebration of how a singular horror film can inspire someone to find their identity and artistic spirit.Featuring legends of horror with some of the most prolific and unique new voices in the genre such as Felissa Rose, Cerina Vincent, Tony Timpone, Jeffrey Reddick, Dave Parker, Rolfe Kanefsky, Ryan Lambert and Michael Gingold, My Favorite Horror Movie is an intimate glimpse into the development of their horror-obsessed minds.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie 2 written by Christian Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You savored the first My Favorite Horror Movie front to back, clinging to it everywhere you went, staying up deep into the witching hour because you couldn't put it down. You devoured it and craved more, but just like that a special edition disc with all the features, you can't bleed another drop out of it...Until now.In the grand tradition of horror franchises comes My Favorite Horror Movie 2: The New Blood, 50 more essays by fans who were inspired by that single film to make a living in horror. These filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians and artists cut deep into their psyches to illuminate us on the movie that sent them down a path of artistic mayhem and bloodshed.Discover what cinematic horrors inspired some of your favorite legends and luminaries, then experience those tales of terror for yourself?if you dare!Curated & Edited by filmmakers Christian Ackerman, Felissa Rose & Chuck Foster.Contributors: Alex Vincent (Child's Play), Alexis Iacono, Andrew Kasch, Anthony Arrigo, Brian Henderson, Brian Netto, Brooke Lewis, Buz Wallick, Camilla Jackson, Chris Lorusso, Chris Sergi, Curtis Rx, Del Howison, Dick Grunert, Dylan Matlock, Eben McGarr, Edward W. Stephens III, Erick Wessel, Fred Topel, Gavin Williams, Gus Krieger, Harry Manfredini, Jay Kay, Jeanne "Hollywood" Basone, Jef Overn, Jennifer Foster, Jesse Merlin, Joe Knetter, Jordan Downey, Josh Staples, Kevin Shulman, Larry Ross, London May, Mark Chavez, Matt Oswalt, Matthew Currie Holmes, Medusa Midnight, Michael Varrati, Mike Mendez, Paul Haynes, Paula Lindberg, Ricky Dean Logan, Ryan Turek, Sam Boxleitner, Sarah French, Steven Shea, Theresa Tilly, Thommy Hutson, Tiffany Shepis, Wendy Medrano, Yan Birch

Download or read book Horror Franchise Cinema written by Mark McKenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses critical neglect toward horror film franchising by discussing the forces and factors governing its development across historical and contemporary terrain while also examining text and reception practices. Offering an introduction to the history of horror franchising, the chapters also examine key texts including Universal Studio monster films, Blumhouse production films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, I Spit on Your Grave, Let the Right One In, Italian zombie films, anthology films, and virtual reality. A significant contribution to studies of horror cinema and film/media franchising from the 1930s to the present day, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, media and cultural studies, franchise studies, political economy, audience/reception studies, horror studies, fan studies, genre studies, production cultures, and film histories.

Download or read book The Final Girl Support Group written by Grady Hendrix and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Download or read book How to Survive a Horror Movie written by Seth Grahame-Smith and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the screenwriter and producer behind Stephen King’s It, and with an introduction by horror icon Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street), this is a hilarious must-read for any horror movie fan—and it just might save your life Are you reading this in a cornfield, at a summer camp, or in an abandoned mental institution? Have you noticed that everything is poorly lit, or that music surges every time you open a door? If the answer is yes, you’re probably trapped in a horror movie. But don’t freak out—just read this book! With it you will learn how to overcome every obstacle found in scary films, including: • How to determine what type of horror film you’re trapped in • The five types of slashers and how to defeat them • How to handle killer dolls, murderous automobiles, and other haunted objects • How to deal with alien invasions, zombie apocalypses, and other global threats • What to do if you did something last summer, if your corn has children in it, or if you suspect you’re already dead So don't be afraid: no vampire, zombie horde, cannibal hillbilly, Japanese vengeance ghost, or other horror movie monster can hurt you—as long as you have this book.

Download or read book Legacy of Terror 2021 Sequels Prequels Remakes written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I review 300 sequels, 100 remakes, and 50 prequels of my favorite horror movie franchises. The movies are ranked. Their position in the list is established by the sum of 8 ratings: stars, gimmick, rewatchability, story, creativity, acting, quality, and creepiness.

Download or read book My Favorite Horror Movie 3 written by Christian Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuation of the My Favorite Horror Movie series, Scream Warriors features 50 essays by horror legends and luminaries on the horror film that shaped their lives.

Download or read book How to Survive Your Murder written by Danielle Valentine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine. "This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!" —R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends. Until Claire was taken away from her. On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.

Download or read book Fright Favorites written by David J. Skal and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner Classic Movies presents a collection of monster greats, modern and classic horror, and family-friendly cinematic treats that capture the spirit of Halloween, complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and iconic images. Fright Favorites spotlights 31 essential Halloween-time films, their associated sequels and remakes, and recommendations to expand your seasonal repertoire based on your favorites. Featured titles include Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), Cat People (1942), Them (1953), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Black Sunday (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Young Frankenstein (1976), Beetlejuice (1988), Get Out (2017), and many more.

Download or read book Icons of Terror written by Steve Hutchison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes 88 horror films grouped in 14 franchises. These franchises feature an antagonist, or villain, who has been present in all or most films. These antagonists are so iconic that they have, in all cases, generated multiple sequels. All movies contained in these pages are rated, ranked and compared to each other. This book is for the hardcore and new fans of horror, as well as filmmakers and film students. It is an unusual examination extracted from gamified website Tales of Terror (www.terror.ca). This online horror movie review tool allows the juxtaposition of multiple films and the creation of charts. Its features were used to write and illustrate this book.

Download or read book Horror Films Virgin Film written by James Marriott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Slick horror of Alien, Scream and The Ring and the cult classics Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy to the slasher icons Jason, Freddy and Leatherface, horror just won’t stay dead. The genre has earned its place in the moviegoing psyche, with many of the key films spawning numerous copycats. But what are the 20 most influential horror films of all time? And what made them so important? James Marriott give an incisive account of the definitive works (and the most influential directors) of the genre over the last 80 years – from silent Expressionist classics to Japanese wraiths. The book reveals the inspiration behind each film and examines the choice of director, cast, soundtrack and marketing. Marriott analyzes the critical reception of each film and examines the subsequent impact on the industry and the public worldwide.

Download or read book Behind the Horror written by Dr. Lee Mellor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism.

Download or read book Horror Films FAQ written by John Kenneth Muir and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (FAQ). Horror Films FAQ explores a century of ghoulish and grand horror cinema, gazing at the different characters, situations, settings, and themes featured in the horror film, from final girls, monstrous bogeymen, giant monsters and vampires to the recent torture porn and found footage formats. The book remembers the J-Horror remake trend of the 2000s, and examines the oft-repeated slasher format popularized by John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980). After an introduction positioning the horror film as an important and moral voice in the national dialogue, the book explores the history of horror decade by decade, remembering the women's liberation horrors of the 1970s, the rubber reality films of the late 1980s, the serial killers of the 1990s, and the xenophobic terrors of the 9/11 age. Horror Films FAQ also asks what it means when animals attack in such films as The Birds (1963) or Jaws (1975), and considers the moral underpinnings of rape-and-revenge movies, such as I Spit on Your Grave (1978) and Irreversible (2002). The book features numerous photographs from the author's extensive personal archive, and also catalogs the genre's most prominent directors.