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    100 American horror films / Barry Keith Grant.

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    • Title:100 American horror films / Barry Keith Grant.
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    • Variant Title:One hundred American horror films
      Hundred American horror films
    • Author/Creator:Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- author.
    • Published/Created:London : BFI, 2022.
      ©2022

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
    • Description:vi, 217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x21 cm
    • Series:BFI screen guides.
    • Summary:"In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular genres, representing its rich history from the silent era - D.W. Griffith's The Avenging Conscience of 1915 - to contemporary productions - Jordan Peele's 2017 Get Out. In his introduction, Grant provides an overview of the genre's history, a context for the films addressed in the individual entries, and discusses the specific relations between American culture and horror. All of the entries are informed by the question of what makes the specific film being discussed a horror film, the importance of its place within the history of the genre, and, where relevant, the film is also contextualized within specifically American culture and history. Each entry also considers the film's most salient textual features, provides important insight into its production, and offers both established and original critical insight and interpretation. The 100 films selected for inclusion represent the broadest historical range, and are drawn from every decade of American film-making, movies from major and minor studios, examples of the different types or subgenres of horror, such as psychological thriller, monster terror, gothic horror, home invasion, torture porn, and parody, as well as the different types of horror monsters, including werewolves, vampires, zombies, mummies, mutants, ghosts, and serial killers." --Amazon.com.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781839021459 (hardcover)
      1839021454 (hardcover)
      9781839021466 (paperback)
      1839021462 (paperback)
      9781839021442 (ePub ebook)
      9781839021435 (PDF ebook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
      2. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
      3. American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
      4. Avenging Conscience (D.W. Griffith, 1914)
      5. Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
      6. Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998)
      7. Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduard Sanchez, 1999)
      8. Brian Damage (Frank Henenlotter, 1988)
      9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
      10. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
      11. Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscorelli, 2002)
      12. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948)
      13. Burrowers (J. T. Petty, 2008)
      14. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
      15. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
      16. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
      17. Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, 1927)
      18. Car People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
      19. Child's Play (Tom Holland, 1998)
      20. Colour out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019)
      21. Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
      22. Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973)
      23. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
      24. Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983)
      25. Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005)
      26. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931)
      27. Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)
      28. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
      29. Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
      30. Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
      31. Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 1928)
      32. Fallen (Gregory Hoblit, 1998)
      33. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987)
      34. Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958)
      35. Frankenstein (J. Searle Dawley, 1910)
      36. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
      37. Fhghteners (Peter Jackson, 1996)
      38. Funny Games US (Michael Haneke, 2007)
      39. Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)
      40. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
      41. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
      42. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
      43. Hellstrom Chronicle (Walon Green, 1971)
      44. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986)
      45. Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)
      46. Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)
      47. House of Wax (Andre de Toth, 1953)
      48. Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)
      49. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
      50. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Gene Fowler, Jr., 1957)
      51. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994)
      52. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (Neil Jordan, 1994)
      53. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
      54. It's Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974)
      55. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
      56. King Kong (Meriam C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
      57. Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972)
      58. Let Me In (Matt Reeves, 2010)
      59. Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman, 1960)
      60. Lodger (John Brahm, 1944)
      61. Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935)
      62. Magician (Rex Ingram, 1926)
      63. Martin (George A. Romero, 1976)
      64. Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
      65. Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
      66. Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)
      67. Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
      68. Mummy (Karl Freund, 1932)
      69. Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932)
      70. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
      71. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
      72. Office Killer (Cindy Sherman, 1997)
      73. Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
      74. Paranormal Activity (Orin Peli, 2007)
      75. Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julien, 1925)
      76. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian de Palma, 1974)
      77. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
      78. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
      79. Purge (James DeMonaco, 2013)
      80. Race with the Devil (Jack Starrett, 1975)
      81. Railenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
      82. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
      83. Saw (James Wan, 2004)
      84. Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
      85. Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
      86. Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
      87. Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1972)
      88. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
      89. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
      90. Tingler (William Castle, 1959)
      91. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003)
      92. Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)
      93. Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
      94. Weird Woman (Reginald Le Borg, 1944)
      95. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962)
      96. White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932)
      97. Wind (Emma Tammi, 2019)
      98. Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
      99. Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941)
      100. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974).
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