The Rough Guide to Horror Movies

by Alan Jones (Author), Alan Jones (Author), Rough Guides (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $4.74

  The Rough Guide to Horror Movies is a comprehensive guide to the world's most terrifying films. The guide includes all the icons, from Boris Karloff to Wes Craven and Frankenstein to Freddie Kruger, including classics from Argentina, Pakistan, South Africa and the recent chillers from East Asia. The canon of fifty essential horror movies features The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Switchblade Romance, via Psycho and The Exorcist. Everything you need to know is covered from festivals, adaptations, magazines and merchandise. The guide tells the stories behind the movies that have scared us throughout the twentieth century.