Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema by Peter Hutchings

By Peter Hutchings

This ancient Dictionary of Horror movies lines the advance of horror cinema from the start of the twentieth century to the current day. this can be performed via a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 1000s of cross-referenced dictionary entries. Entries conceal all of the significant motion picture villains, together with Frankenstein and his monster, the vampire, the werewolf, the mother, the zombie, the ghost, and the serial killer; the movie administrators, manufacturers, writers, actors, cinematographers, makeup artists, lighting tricks technicians, and composers who've helped to form horror background; major construction businesses and the key movies that experience come to face as milestones within the improvement of the horror style; and the several nationwide traditions in horror cinema in addition to horror's preferred subject matters, codecs, conventions, and cycles.

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The giant ape in King Kong (1933, remade in 1976 and 2005) is the most remembered, but the more typical horror ape usually came in the considerably less impressive form of a man wearing a gorilla suit. The Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) contained a murderous ape, and the popular murder mystery play The Gorilla was filmed three times, in 1927, 1930 and 1939. A fascination with evolutionary progression and regression was evident in Captive Wild Woman (1943), in which an ape was transformed into a beautiful woman by a mad scientist.

Alien 3 is the grimmest entry to the Alien cycle. qxd 2/5/08 9:36 AM Page xxxi CHRONOLOGY • xxxi 1993 Mexico: Guillermo del Toro makes his directorial debut with Cronos, an innovative vampire film. United States: Two more Stephen King adaptations appear, Needful Things and George Romero’s The Dark Half. Tim Burton produces the horror-themed animation The Nightmare Before Christmas. The horror-influenced television series The X Files begins; it runs until 2002 and also generates a cinema film. Vincent Price dies on 25 October.

During the 1940s, Universal became increasingly dependent on horror sequels featuring not just Frankenstein and Dracula but revised versions of the Wolf Man and the mummy, while at RKO producer Val Lewton eschewed the monster-centered Universal approach and instead offered a more psychologically complex form of horror in films such as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Seventh Victim (1943). qxd 6 • 2/5/08 9:43 AM Page 6 AMERICAN HORROR Rathbone as the great detective, as well as psychological thrillers such as John Brahm’s The Lodger (1944) and Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase (1946).

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