The Fearmakers: Master Directors of Suspense and Terror

by JohnMcCarty (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $11.72

  From the author of Splatter Movies and Hollywood Gangland . Since the advent of moving pictures, film-makers have sought to scare the viewer. Fear remains one of the deepest, primal emotions, and this book profiles 20 directors who have tapped into it. McCarty coined the phrase splatter films . He covers the spectrum of fearmakers from George A. Romero to Jacques Torneur and Roman Polanski, from Roland West to John Carpenter and David Cronenburg. There are also biographies of lesser-known directors, such as Benjamin Christensen and Henri-Georges Clouzot, and more than 200 graphic photographs illustrating the fearmakers art.