Horror Cinema

Exactly as described. Love this book. Arrived earlier than expected. I highly recommend seller and plan on being a repeat customer.

Saw this book on sale and bought it on a whim. I ended up being more than pleased with the book when it arrived. It's a gorgeous coffee table style book with lots to read but even more to look at. I even showed it to a few (horror movie loving) friends who later purchased it themselves. Great buy!

Very nice book. Great pictures and lot of information altought not very deep.The printing is very nice, lot of inverse printing (letters white and sheets black).It is a book for browsing little by little before going to bed. I am pleased

This book is informative about the origins, scope, and variations of the Horror genre throughout cinema's history. It features amazing photographs from well-known films, along with chilling quotes from artists and directly from horror films.

I found this volume in a Taschen store just off Rodeo Dr in Beverly Hills. Since it was so modestly priced I snapped it right up. The photos are great and are expertly reproduced. And, with a collection of other books of this type I was happy and surprised to find images I've never seen before.There's a whimsical shot that was made during the production of 1959's "House on Haunted Hill" where Vincent Price is dancing with that skeleton that is such an integral part of the plot. It must have been a "horsing around" moment.However, there are errors that crop up in the text. In describing the memorable makeup Lon Chaney used to create the face of Erik, the phantom of the Paris opera, the author refers to "puddy." Could he have meant putty?And, when introducing Howard Hawks' "The Thing" he says that the 1950 release capitalized on Russia's launch of Sputnik.The Russian Sputnik was not launched until 1957.Nevertheless, the serious horror film fan will want to add this volume to his library. The text errors should have been noticed by a publisher like Taschen.

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This book is vivid in detail for horror movies! It contains chapters on different genres and character types. As-well as important information on the movies that started it all to modern day classics. Vivid pictures and so much more. A must have for horror geeks everywhere!

Owning several titles in the Taschen film book series, (Films of the 60's, Films of the 70's and films of the 80's) I was expecting something great in this volume. But I was disappointed. It's a beautiful book and I love the oversize size, but it's surprisingly thin and comes no where near the in-depth coverage of films one would expect from this publisher. It's far from comprehensive and most of the films it includes are only briefly touched on. I expected it to be broken down into sections by decades or subject and a selection of best films given a thorough review with lots of photos, as in the other books in the series. It is broken down into subjects but does not go further with sections devoted to individual films, but gives only a brief overview of each sub-genre. The photos it includes are beautiful, many of them full page - there just aren't enough of them. So it's a decent book but I expected much more. Hell, just a collection of the articles on films from their other volumes would have been better. For instance in Films of the 60's (which is at least four times as thick as this book) there are great essays on Polanski's films "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Fearless Vampire Killers" plus several other horror films including Hitchcock's "The Birds." In the films of the 70's there is an excellent article on "The Exorcist." All of these films were better covered in those volumes, which is ironic since they should have been highlighted in the "Horror Cinema" volume. Here the films are barely mentioned, if at all. So for a superficial but attractive book it's great on a coffee table, but if you want substance, stick with the other volumes in the Taschen series. If only they would have followed the format they used in their other books this would have been an excellent book, maybe even the ultimate horror film book. But no.

This was bought as a present for someone who had put it on their amazon wish list. They have told me that they are very pleased with it.

A brilliant book. Much better than a more expensive horror book I bought in a local bookshop. Highly recommended. Thanks

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Quick delivery,recommended

great book, fast service, although ordered before christmas, arrived withing a few days. great christmas present for everyone likes horror movies