FrightFest Guide: Monster Movies
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"Monsters have been a part of human culture since we first gained the ability to tell stories. They represent everything from our deepest fears to our feelings of alienation and estrangement. From its beginnings, the cinema has provided a venue to visualize monsters in all their fearsome and sometimes strangely sympathetic glory. They have become some of the movies' most unforgettable, enduring and popular characters. And now the entire spectrum of screen creatures is gathered in one volume.
In The Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies, celebrated writer, editor and critic Michael Gingold starts in the silent era and traces the history of the genre all the way through to the present day. From Universal Studios legends such as Frankenstein's Monster and the Mummy, to the big bugs, atomic mutants and space invaders that terrorized the '50s, to the kaiju of Japan and the ecological nightmares of the '70s and '80s, to the CG creatures and updated favourites of recent years ― they're all here.
200 of the greatest creature features from across the globe are reviewed, with fascinating facts and critical analysis, all illustrated with a ghoulish gallery of remarkable monstrous imagery. Cult-favourite filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, creator of some of the screen's most idiosyncratic and bizarre beings, contributes a foreword, A whole world and grisly galaxy of creatures great and small, spawned from space, the supernatural and strange science, the beginning of time, beneath the sea and beyond imagination, await in this book. Dare you confront the beasts within?"
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Kong: Skull Island
2017, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Void
2016, in 1 top list Check -
199 new
The Monster
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
198 new
A Monster Calls
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
197 new
Colossal
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
196 new
Córki dancingu
2015 — a.k.a. The Lure, in 2 top lists Check -
195 new
Krampus
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
194 new
Godzilla
2014, in 2 top lists Check -
193 new
The Babadook
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
192 new
Willow Creek
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
191 new
Pacific Rim
2013, in 1 top list Check -
190 new
Frankenstein's Army
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
189 new
Big Ass Spider!
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
188 new
Grabbers
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
187 new
The Cabin in the Woods
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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Super 8
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
185 new
Attack the Block
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
184 new
Trolljegeren
2010 — a.k.a. Trollhunter, in 1 top list Check -
183 new
Monsters
2010, in 3 top lists Check -
182 new
Splice
2009, in 1 top list Check -
181 new
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
180 new
Splinter
2008, in 1 top list Check -
179 new
The Ruins
2008, in 1 top list Check -
178 new
Cloverfield
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
177 new
The Burrowers
2008, in 1 top list Check -
176 new
Rogue
2007, in 1 top list Check -
175 new
The Mist
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
174 new
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
2007, in 1 top list Check -
173 new
D-War
2007 — a.k.a. Dragon Wars: D-War, in 0 top lists Check -
172 new
Dai-Nihonjin
2007 — a.k.a. Big Man Japan, in 0 top lists Check -
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Beowulf
2007, in 1 top list Check -
170 new
Slither
2006, in 3 top lists Check -
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Silent Hill
2006, in 2 top lists Check -
168 new
El laberinto del fauno
2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check -
167 new
Gwoemul
2006 — a.k.a. The Host, in 11 top lists Check -
166 new
Black Sheep
2006, in 2 top lists Check -
165 new
Abominable
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
164 new
King Kong
2005, in 6 top lists Check -
163 new
Isolation
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
162 new
The Descent
2005, in 4 top lists Check -
161 new
Hellboy
2004, in 1 top list Check -
160 new
Eight Legged Freaks
2002, in 1 top list Check -
159 new
Bubba Ho-Tep
2002, in 3 top lists Check -
158 new
Wendigo
2001, in 1 top list Check -
157 new
Jeepers Creepers
2001, in 1 top list Check -
156 new
Dagon
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
155 new
Le pacte des loups
2001 — a.k.a. Brotherhood of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check -
154 new
Pitch Black
2000, in 1 top list Check -
153 new
Otesánek
2000 — a.k.a. Greedy Guts, in 3 top lists Check -
152 new
The Mummy
1999, in 4 top lists Check
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