Horror Films

  • Horror Films: Current Research on Audience Preferences and Reactions
    By James B. Weaver, Ron Tamborini

    "Friday the 13th, ” and the films of the stalker cycle. ... General occurrence of stressful reactions to commercial motion pictures and elements in films subjectively identified as stressors. ... Video movie guide: 1991.

  • Horror Films
    By Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell

    The guide also profiles such popular directors as Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Hideo Nakata, and Sam Raimi; as well as cult directors from around the world, including Coffin Joe, Jean Rollin, and Michele ...

  • Horror Films
    By James Marriott

    This book analyses the definitive works (and the most influential directors) of the genre over the last 50 years - from silent expressionist classics to Hollywood scream queens - as...

  • Horror Films
    By Richard H. W. Dillard

    "The artistic and moral values implicit in the [horror] genre are analyzed by R.H.W. Dillard in his examination of four horror classics: James Whale's Freankenstein (1931), George Waggner's The Wolf...

  • Horror Films: Current Research on Audience Preferences and Reactions
    By James B. Weaver, Ron Tamborini

    As a result, the information has not been effectively integrated. This volume was written to address this problem and to position the study of audience responses to frightening fiction as a significant research topic.

  • Horror Films
    By James Marriott

    The book reveals the inspiration behind each film and examines the choice of director, cast, soundtrack and marketing.