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Comic books in 'The Dark Heart of Cinema'

  • Issue #3-1ST
    FrightFest Guide SC (2016-2024 Fab Press) The Dark Heart of Cinema 3-1ST


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    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Ghost Movies!"

    By Axelle Carolyn.

    Like many, award-winning filmmaker Axelle Carolyn has been obsessed with haunted houses and revenants for as long as she can remember. In this volume, she surveys the last 120 years of the genre and reviews the 200 most memorable titles from across the globe. From timeless classics to recent blockbusters, quirky indies to international sensations, hidden gems to oddities, each of these movies has in some way contributed to the development of the ghost movie as we know it, in all its incarnations and cultural variants.

    Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 240 pages, full color.

    Cover price $24.95.

  • Issue #7-1ST
    FrightFest Guide SC (2016-2024 Fab Press) The Dark Heart of Cinema 7-1ST


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    Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Mad Doctors Movies!" By Doctor John Llewellyn Probert. Foreword by Tom Six. Mad medics... sinister surgeons... psychopathic psychiatrists. We put our trust in them. They say they want to help, to cure, to relieve pain and soothe suffering. They claim those experiments they've been performing are for the greater good of mankind. But what if they actually want the opposite? What happens when doctors are dead set on researching the strange, the bizarre, the weird? What happens when all that scientific and medical knowledge only results in the creation of unimaginable horror? Ever since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have been depicting on screen the potential outcomes of medical madness and science gone sick. John Llewellyn Probert takes a detailed look at the history of one of the most enduring archetypes in cinema, with an introductory overview of the genre followed by reviews of over 200 key mad doctor movies. In addition to critical appraisal, the author's own medical background allows him to provide a unique insight into just how well the filmmakers have done their homework. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 240 pages, full color. Parental Advisory Cover price $24.95.