HORROR CINEMA

This exciting new visual history examines the genre in thematic,historical, and aesthetic terms Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse ofall film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horrormovies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypalfears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specificanxieties, cinematic horror is at once timeless and utterly of its timeand place. This exciting new visual history, which includes unique imagesfrom the David Del Valle archive, examines the genre in thematic,historical, and aesthetic terms, breaking it down into the followingfundamental categories: Slashers & Serial Killers; Cannibals, Freaks &Hillbillys; Revenge of Nature & Environmental Horror; Sci-fi Horror; TheLiving Dead; Ghosts & Haunted Houses; Possession, Demons & EvilTricksters; Voodoo, Cults & Satanists; Vampires & Werewolves; and TheMonstrous-Feminine. Among the many films featured are classics such asPsycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien, The Exorcist, Dracula, and TheWicker Man.