Tag: Terrors

Universal Terrors, 1951-1955 Eight Classic Horror and Science Fiction Films


Free Download Tom Weaver, "Universal Terrors, 1951-1955: Eight Classic Horror and Science Fiction Films"
English | ISBN: 078643614X | 2017 | 440 pages | PDF | 48 MB
Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters-Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1950s, more modern monsters were created for the Atomic Age, including one-eyed globs from outer space, mutants from the planet Metaluna, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the 100-foot high horror known as Tarantula.

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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors The Child Villains of Horror Film


Free Download Dominic Lennard, "Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film "
English | ISBN: 1438453299 | 2014 | 181 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward-and even hatred of-children.

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