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Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
Knife-weilding murderers, buxom teens fleeing for their lives, the undead limping across streets. These images are synonymous with horror movies. Go behind-the-scenes with filmmaker greats as they reveal their inspirations for some of the most disturbingly gruesome films that have emerged on screen.
2) Abandoned
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned follows the sharply intense lives of a mother, father, and infant son as they move into a remote farmhouse, which harbors a dark, tragic history.
3) Pearl
Language
English
Formats
Description
Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin...
4) Scream 3
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The final installment of the successful franchise that reinvented the horror genre. Now out of college, the protagonists dodge knives during the shooting of 'Stab 3'.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Dementia 13: Francis Ford Coppola's directorial debut about an axe murderer running amok in Ireland. A death on a lake prefigures a famous scene in The Godfather Part III (1974); Frozen alive: A scientists experiments with suspended animation and becomes the prime suspect when his wife is murdered; The screaming skull: A newly married couple finds screaming skulls around their house. The horror mounts as the ghost of the husband's first wife appears;...
7) Consecration
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her brother dies under mysterious circumstances, Grace travels to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a shocking truth about her own past.
8) Surveillance
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung-out junkie and an eight-year-old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well-practiced lie, they...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.
10) The tank
Publisher
Well Go USA
Language
English
Formats
Description
After mysteriously inheriting an abandoned coastal property, Ben and his family accidentally unleash an ancient, long-dormant creature that terrorized the entire region, including his own ancestors, for generations.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Horror Films FAQ explores a century of ghoulish and grand horror cinema, gazing at the different characters, situations, settings, and themes featured in the horror film, from final girls, monstrous bogeymen, giant monsters and vampires to the recent torture porn and found footage formats. The book remembers the J-Horror remake trend of the 2000s, and examines the oft-repeated slasher format popularized by John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Friday...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning horror film director, writer, producer, and actor Eli Roth brings together the masters of horror, the storytellers, and stars who define the genre, to explore its biggest themes and reveal the inspirations and struggles behind its past and present. Each one-hour episode will take viewers on a chilling exploration of how horror has evolved through the years and examine the genre's impact on society as well as delving into how horror maintains...
Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"Independent filmmaker and horror-film scholar John Kenneth Muir says, 'Art does not exist in a vacuum. Instead, it is inexorably bound to the time period from which it sprang.' In his entertaining and scholarly filmography of over 200 films arranged by year, Muir sees the historical and social happenings of the 1970s as giving rise to the unusually high number of groundbreaking horror films of the decade, as well as the more routine ones. Following...
14) Cursed films
Publisher
Shudder Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A five-part documentary series which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood's notoriously 'cursed' horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary among film fans and filmmakers alike. Were these films really cursed, as many believe, or just the victims of bad luck and bizarre circumstances?
16) Carrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], ©1976
Language
English
Description
"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c1935, c1941, c1943, c1946
Language
English
Description
The Wolf Man: When a man is attacked by a werewolf, he finds to his horror that he now becomes one himself under a full moon. WereWolf of London: While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man: Graverobbers open the grave of the WolfMan and awake him. She-Wolf of London: A young heiress finds evidence suggestig that at night she acts under the influence of a...
Publisher
Kitley's Krypt
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
From Alucarda to X: the man with the x-rays eyes, this collection of essays from horror films enthusiasts showcases classics, mind-benders, shockers and freakouts. Even if you've seen every movie mentioned, you're bound to acquire new tidbits of trivia on some horror gems.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mankind has been predicting its own demise through various methods, from fables and religious scriptures to hard-core scientific studies since the dawn of time. And if there is one thing Hollywood knows how to exploit, it is the fears of Things to Come. Movies about the end of the world have been around since the early days of cinema, and Armageddon Film FAQ is a look into the various methods we have destroyed ourselves over the years: zombies, mad...
20) 30 days of night
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The residents of an Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for 30 days straight head south for the winter. When a group of vampires comes in, looking to feed on the town's remaining inhabitants, it's up to them to survive the night!
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