For centuries, mankind has been chilled by tales of vampires. A fixture of literature, art, and folk tales, the vampire was a natural early choice for a movie monster at the dawn of cinema and has remained popular ever since as the screen's most enduring and sexually charged nightmare figure. Within these bloodstained pages, you'll discover that vampires of the silver screen are far more complex and diverse than variations on Dracula and other staples like Carmilla and the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. All the icons are here, from Bela Lugosi and Max Schreck's pioneering fiends to the heyday of Hammer Films, but that's just a sanguinary taste of what's to come as you explore macabre offerings from Hong Kong, India, Italy, France, Germany, and more. It's all served up on a blood-spattered silver platter by author and film historian Nathaniel Thompson, who also delivers a globetrotting introduction to the history and evolution of vampire cinema from the silent era to the modern age of undead heartthrobs and vampire assassins. Sweetening the bloody deal is a foreword by legendary writer and monster expert Kim Newman, who dragged vampire literature into the daylight of the modern age with his Anno Dracula series. Take our hand, if you dare, and accept our invitation to explore the dizzying array of frightening, hilarious, and often beautiful sights and sounds of the undead on film. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Thompson, Nathaniel. Artist Na. Cover by Na.
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Data di uscita: 07/12/22
Issues 24 to 26 of Robin Bougie's independent magazine are revisited in this 5th volume, along with 85 pages of never-before-seen interviews, rants, comics, hard-to-find classic movie advertising, and graphic illustrations by Bougie and his talented friends from comics and animation. It's a mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
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By Bougie, Robin. Cover by Raurus, Vince.
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Despite the Bollywood stereotype, it's not all weddings, wet saris and running around trees. In the 1970s, Indian cinema gave birth to a new breed of action movie, combining its own exuberant traditions with New Hollywood's gritty urban crime thrillers, Hong Kong martial arts cinema, and Italian exploitation fare. Bollywood action films were the domain of hard fighting he-men and gorgeous, badass, whip-wielding heroines. Bursting with color and imagination on every page, Funky Bollywood offers a freewheeling and feisty take on a world of karate killers, femme fatales, space-age lairs, bombshells and booby traps. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
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By Stadtman, Todd.
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Just when you thought it was safe to stop repeating 'It's only a movie… only a movie… only a movie!' it's time to take a stroll down the dark and deviant back alleys of the Exploitation film industry. Your host, acclaimed film critic and broadcaster Alan Jones, returns with another mind-boggling trawl through the glittering gutters of cinema to uncover yet more obscure Grindhouse gold. For this astounding sequel to his acclaimed FrightFest Guide to Exploitation Movies, Jones has chosen the most underrated, alluring or flat-out disastrous sick flicks from the eye-opening epoch that created an obsessed generation of slavering besotted fans. From red light district fleapits to neon-drenched 42nd Street dives and late night Drive-Ins, Jones forensically catalogued everything for posterity, pre-determining cult status even though he didn't realize it at the time. With a foreword by Jane Giles, the award-winning author of Scala Cinema 1978-1993, along with a highly personal, informative introduction by Jones, you can now take a walk on the wild side of chronic B-movie adoration, guided by the one person who knows the astonishing, once maligned, now lauded genre better than anyone else. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Jones, Alan. Artist Na. Cover by Na.
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2021): 290
Data di uscita: 05/01/22