Litsy

Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond | David J. Skal

Burton aficionados will recognize any number of visual ideas that are wrapped into his later work, especially The Nightmare Before Christmas.
RE: Beetlejuice p. 155

#hauntedshelf #grimreaders

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2mo

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Aconight

Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond | David J. Skal

Swaps will be going out first thing tomorrow! Tags and names of recipients on other side of the box. Hope everyone is well! Book on top was a recent giveaway win from a horror group 😍

@MaleficentBookDragon #AllHallowsReadSwap #AHRS2025 👻🧡 @BookwormAHN #ModernWitchSwap #MWS 🔮🕯️

BookwormAHN Yay 🐈‍⬛ 2mo

MaleficentBookDragon Yay! 🐈‍⬛ 👻 🎃 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🧙🏻‍♀️ 🔪 2mo

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Reggie

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive | Craig DiLouie

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Sometimes you go into horror thinking you‘re getting the Evil Dead 2013 experience and then sometimes you go see Malignant where these bubbles of laughter come out and you had no idea those were in there. This was hilarious to me. This takes place in 1980s Hollywood. We follow a horror director make his ultimate horror movie using a cursed camera. This harpoons the movie business and actors. So crazy. The end fizzled a bit for me. Still a pick!

Centique Im glad there were some laughs in there too! 2mo

Reggie @Centique there was a lot of laughs in here. Also, the cursed camera only kills people you care about. So the director had to take acting classes to be able to convince himself to care about people. It was just funny. 2mo

vivastory I also really liked this one 🖤 1mo

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alecia3dixie

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive | Craig DiLouie

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This one was so boring. I struggled getting through it most of the time. It should be called "how to make a horror movie" that's it, no and survive.The entire book goes on and on how to make and direct a horror film. I didn't like the characters because there wasn't any substance to them other than making/starring in a horror movie. And the monologs, sooo many monologs. Then the build-up to the gory ending, and then some deaths happen off page!2/5

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Robotswithpersonality

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar | Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris

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Everything I wanted it to be.
The focus is on Black cinematic horror, but to address the subject well, it also dips into Black cinematic history beyond horror, and the Black experience in America, historical and present day. There is some coverage of international releases, but the book is primarily talking about US films and the minutiae reflecting the particular racism of each decade as it affects the output of Black horror cinema, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? including tropes and minority within minority representation.
I'm glad for the structure the book provides, outlining the multiple ways the egregious past has limited representation and creativity and the hopeful outlook for the future, while in no way letting present day America off the hook for all the ways it still needs to improve on screen and in real life for Back Americans. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Two things surprised me.
1) How funny the text is as a whole. Yes, it deals with serious topics throughout, but the authors' experienced media critic angle adds a superlative quality to the writing - I don't think we went more than five pages before someone else was getting roasted for poor creative output or racist thinking. The few word puns that made their way into the text were choice. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? 2) The formatting of the book itself. The heavy, glossy pages remind me of a cross between a bird guide and a tour guide, though there are relatively few images included given that is usually the reason for such a paper choice.
The many lists and trivia inserts with their own formatting and occasional graphics reminded me of a magazine you'd get at the theatre, all the information goes further to emphasizing the point the authors want to make 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/? in that associated chapter, but it's a welcome change in comparison to other non-fiction texts I've picked up outside university.

Less a critique and more a heads up for anyone who plans to read it linearly rather than dip into particular chapters - you're going to encounter duplicate information about films. I believe this was done so that anybody picking the book up anywhere, whether they'd seen a certain film or not, 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 would know what it contained and why it was being discussed as an exemplar (this book is a rich text for examples for each point made). Don't let the authors' effort to be thorough distract from the important information being relayed.

⚠️Mention of racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia 5mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar | Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris