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Lost in the dark : a world history of horror film / Brad Weismann.

by Weismann, Brad, author.

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[Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Hammer Film Productions.

Horror -- History and criticism.

Horror films -- History and criticism.

Monster films -- History and criticism.

9781496833211 (trade paperback)

149683321X (trade paperback)

xii, 249 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Horror before film -- Chapter 2: Shadowy silence: horror before sound -- Chapter 3: Browning and Chaney: the father of Freaks and the man of a thousand faces -- Chapter 4: Monster central: the great horror cycles begin -- Chapter 5: Cranking out the creepies: horror in the 1930s and 1940s -- Chapter 6: Val Lewton and the terrors of the unseen -- Chapter 7: Atomic-age monsters: the sci-fi-horror boom -- Chapter 8: Blood and bosoms: the success of Hammer horror -- Chapter 9: : The moment of shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom -- Chapter 10: The Corman Poes, and the peerless Vincent Price -- Chapter 11: Horror, Italian style -- Chapter 12: All Hell breaks loose, 1960 -- 1975 -- Chapter 13: Bloody England: Hammer's competitors -- Chapter 14: The sleep of reason: horror in Spanish -- Chapter 15: Godzilla & Co.: Far East horror in transition -- Chapter 16: Polanski, Coffin Joe, and others -- Chapter 17: Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg -- Chapter 18: Mainstream horror; or, bring the kids! -- Chapter 19: J- and K-Horror, and other Asian alphabets: Chapter 20: The problem of torture porn -- Chapter 21: Zombies! -- Chapter 22: There's usually a gorilla: horror-comedies -- Chapter 23: Masters for a new millennium -- Chapter 24: Is horror legit? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.

"Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them-The Shape of Water-won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive entry-level reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn't scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist"--

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