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100 1 _aGlasby, Matt,
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245 1 4 _aThe book of horror :
_bthe anatomy of fear in film /
_cMatt Glasby ; illustrations by Barney Bodoano.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bFrance Lincoln,
_c2020.
300 _a176 pages :
_billustrations (black and white, and colour) ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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366 _b20200922
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500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aPsycho (1960)The Innocents (1961)The Haunting (1963)Don't Look Now (1973)The Exorcist (1973)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)Suspiria (1977)Halloween (1978)The Shining (1980)The Entity (1982)Angst (1983)Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)Ring (1998)The Blair Witch Project (1999)The Others (2001)The Eye (2002)Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)Shutter (2004)The Descent (2005)Wolf Creek (2005)The Orphanage (2007)[Rec] (2007)The Strangers (2008)Lake Mungo (2008)Martyrs (2008)The Innkeepers (2011)Banshee Chapter (2013)Oculus (2013)The Babadook (2014)It Follows (2015)Terrified (2017)Hereditary (2018)It Chapter Two (2019)
520 8 _a'The Book of Horror' introduces the reader to the scariest movies ever made and examines the factors that make them so frightening.
_b'... the definitive guide to what properly messes us up.'?SFX Magazine'Glasby anatomises horror's scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films -classic and pleasingly obscure.4 Stars.'?Total Film?The Book of Horrorintroduces you to the scariest movies ever made and examines what makes them so frightening. Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there's only one metric that matters: are they scary? Back in the silent era, viewers thrilled atFrankenstein and Dracula.Today, the monsters may have changed, but the instinct remains the same: to seek out the unspeakable, ride the adrenaline rush and play out our fears in the safety of the cinema.The Book of Horror focuses on the most frightening films of the post-war era -from Psycho(1960) to ItChapter Two(2019) -examining exactly how they scare us across a series of key categories. Each chapter explores a seminal horror film in depth, charting its scariest moments with infographics and identifying the related works you need to see. Including references to more than100 classic and contemporary horror filmsfrom around the globe,and striking illustrations from Barney Bodoano, this isa rich and compelling guide to the scariest films ever made.The films:Psycho (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), Don't Look Now (1973),The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Suspiria (1977), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), The Entity (1982), Angst (1983), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Ring (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Others (2001), The Eye (2002), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Shutter (2004), The Descent (2005), Wolf Creek (2005), The Orphanage (2007), [Rec] (2007), The Strangers (2008), Lake Mungo (2008), Martyrs (2008), The Innkeepers (2011), Banshee Chapter (2013), Oculus (2013), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2015), Terrified (2017), Hereditary (2018), It Chapter Two (2019)
650 0 _aHorror films
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650 7 _aFilm: styles & genres
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650 7 _aFilm history, theory & criticism
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650 7 _aHorror & supernatural fiction
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650 7 _aElectronic, holographic & video art
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650 7 _aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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700 1 _aBodoano, Barney,
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