Rough Guide Horror Movies

Name: Rough Guide Horror Movies
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ISBN: 9781843535218

ISBN-10: 1843535211

ISBN-13: 9781843535218

Edition: 1st 2005

Authors: Alan Jones, Rough Guides Staff, Rough Guide

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The Rough Guide to Horror Movies is a comprehensive guide to the world's most terrifying films. The guide includes all the icons, from Boris Karloff to Wes Craven and Frankenstein to Freddie Kruger, including classics from Argentina, Pakistan, South Africa and the recent chillers from East Asia. The canon of fifty essential horror movies features The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Switchblade Romance, via Psycho and The Exorcist. Everything you need to know is covered from festivals, adaptations, magazines and merchandise. The guide tells the stories behind the movies that have scared us throughout the twentieth century.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction


The Origins: horror literature


The History: over a hundred years of horror


The Canon: 50 horror classics


An American Werewolf In London


Black Sunday


Braindead


The Bride Of Frankenstein


The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari


Cannibal Holocaust


Carrie


The Cat And The Canary


Cat People


The Curse Of Frankenstein


Dawn Of The Dead


Diabolique


Dracula (1931)


Dracula (1958)


The Evil Dead


The Exorcist


Eyes Without A Face


Frankenstein


Freaks


Halloween


The Haunting


The Innocents


I Walked With A Zombie


Jaws


Near Dark


A Nightmare On Elm Street


Night Of The Demon


Night Of The Living Dead


Nosferatu


The Old Dark House


Onibaba


Peeping Tom


The Phantom Of The Opera


The Pit And The Pendulum


The Plague Of The Zombies


Psycho


Re-Animator


Repulsion


Ringu


Rosemary's Baby


Scream


The Shining


Shivers


The Silence Of The Lambs


The Sixth Sense


Suspiria


Switchblade Romance


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre


The Uninvited


Witchfinder General


The Icons: the faces of horror


The Global Picture: horror movies around the world


The Information: where to turn next


Picture credits


Index