Presents a guide to creating a zombie film on a small budget, covering such topics as the storyline, contracts, options for assembling a cast, materials to use for make-up, prosthetics, postproduction, and marketing strategies.
These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies.
Containing an illustrated zombie rating system, ranging from "Highly Recommended" to "Avoid at All Costs" and "So Bad It's Good," the book also features lengthy interviews with numerous talents from in front of and behind the camera.
... Milburn Stone, Andrew Tombes, Rose Hobart, Charles McGraw, Isabel La Mal, Hans Herbert Dir: James P. Hogan The science fiction and horror film has Dr. Alfred Morris (Zucco) who is curious about the effects of an ancient nerve gas, ...
Paul Varner, The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema (Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2008), 5. 17. Brent Strang, “'I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For': The Postmortem Western from Unforgiven to No Country for Old Men,” masters thesis, ...
The female lead, Rene (Felicity Mason), is engaging enough, but the Bruce Campbell–inspired farmer, Marion (Mungo McKay), doesn't come across as effectively as the into flesh-eating zombies with pale, wrinkled skin filmmakers probably ...
Spanning nearly a century, this book tells the remarkable true story behind the zombie genre, from its cinematic inception and evolution to its ultimate rise to pop culture prominence.--dust jacket.
Prod: Mort Abrahams. Teleplay: Boris Ingster. Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Linda Gaye Scott, Claude Akins, Leo G. Carroll. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ¡965. In late ¡964, the slick, light-hearted, James Bond–inspired Man from ...
This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire.
He is the author of A History of Television's The Virginian 1962–1971 (2006); Pete Duel: A Biogra- phy (2007); Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns (2009);Jennifer Jones: The Life and Films (2011); Roy Huggins (2013); Jeffrey Hunter: The Film ...
These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies.