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Title: Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen : A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks by Adam Lukeman ISBN: 1-4000-4749-8 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Five stars for the concept, take one away for bad writing.
Comment: As a long time horror fan I was happy to find a list of lesser-known films to help me compile a bill of fare for movie nights. A couple of times a year I like to gather a group of friends and stay up until the wee hours hopped up on caffeine and cheez covered snacks for a night of fright and delight. The listings in this book will definitely help me keep the selections fresh and interesting.
I have to admit, I was familiar with at least ninety percent of the films listed in here, but had written off a good number of them as dreck. Looking through the reviews and trivia peaked my interest enough for me to drop a few bucks here on Amazon to get some used copies for under the price of a movie ticket. I've watched a couple of the flicks and was pleasantly surprised by them. I honestly didn't know that there were so many movies out there based (albeit loosely in some cases) on the writings of HP Lovecraft.
The one complaint I have is in the actual mechanics of the writing. I first looked through the book fairly late at night, pretty much just glancing over the reviews, looking for a couple of flicks to try out. I found some that looked interesting and folded the pages over to order them the next day. Last night I was flipping through those listings and reading some of the passages to my wife to try and persuade her to give some of the new movies a shot this weekend. Reading some of the passages aloud actually made her laugh at the clunky writing style and fact that the prose was littered with sentence fragments and run ons that made me have to pause awkwardly to breathe.
There is a lot of interesting information here, but whoever edited this book should have gotten a good night's sleep and made one more pass before sending it off to the publisher.
Rating: 4
Summary: ALL YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR LE BAD CINEMA NIGHT
Comment: The "FANGORIA" name on the cover was what caught my interest (and got me to pick it up since The Lair of the White Worm photo is like repellent - HATE THAT MOVIE). Once I journeyed beyond the cover I discovered enough solid recommendations to keep me stocked for ideas for a "Bad Movie" Night.
As with any book of this nature everything is subject to opinion and where your preference lies. Personally I avoid any Italian Horror Movie (after sitting through Devil Fish) and some of the GROSS movies aren't my friends thing. But luckily, the 101 offerings cover a wide spectrum so at the very least you can come away with a solid 40-50 films that I'm betting will be new to you.
Each entry includes: actors, directors, DVD company that offers the film, run time, a summary, and some fun-trivia facts.
While I won't spoil the contents some films covered are: Apt Pupil, The Blob, Castle Freak, The Dentist, Hell Night, I Spit on Your Grave, Nomads, The Stepfather, and 93 others.
Hopefully, Fangoria will continue to release books in this vein with ideas like, "101 Best Horror Films You HAVE Heard Of, 101 Goriest Horror Films, and 101 Sci-Fi Classics.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great idea for a book!
Comment: When I got this book I was extremely happy. I have always been a huge Horror fan and am always looking to track down some gem of a film that I have never seen. Before purchasing this book I had seen 52 of these films, and since then I have picked up a few more due to the advice in this book.
Certainly one could make a case as to the choice of movies they selected. I feel several don't belong (Castle Freak or the Dead Pit) and some better choices were left out (Toursist Trap or The Evil Dead Trap), but that is all in personel taste.
It was good to see several lesser known films that I have always loved getting the proper recognition in this book (The Evil Within or The Resurrected).
My only problem with the book is the reviews themselves. The entries are very short and I feel as if a more in depth review could have been given.
All in all this book is well worth the money but it could have been much better. The concept gets 5 stars but the exection gets 3.
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Title: VideoHound's Horror Show: 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish and Humorous Movies by Mike Mayo, William Lustig ISBN: 1578590477 Publisher: Visible Ink Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Horror Movie Survival Guide by Matteo Molinari, Jim Kamm ISBN: 0425178412 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s by Scott Aaron Stine ISBN: 0786415320 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Profoundly Disturbing : Shocking Movies That Changed History! by Joe Bob Briggs ISBN: 0789308444 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 28 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks ISBN: 1400049628 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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