The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

by Mike Mayo
The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

by Mike Mayo

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Overview

This cinefile’s guidebook covers the horror genre monstrously well! Find reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror!

Atomic bombs, mad serial killers, zealous zombies, maniacal monsters lurking around every corner, and the unleashing of technology, rapidly changing and dominating our lives. Slasher and splatter films. Italian giallo and Japanese city-stomping monster flicks. Psychological horrors, spoofs, and nature running amuck. You will find these terrors and many more in The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies.

No gravestone is left unturned to bring you entertaining critiques, fascinating top-ten lists, numerous photos, and extensive credit information to satisfy even the most die-hard fans. Written by a fan for fans, The Horror Show Guide helps lead even the uninitiated to unexpected treasures of unease and mayhem with lists of similar motifs, including …

  • Urban Horrors
  • Nasty Bugs, Mad Scientists and Maniacal Medicos
  • Evil Dolls
  • Bad Hair Days
  • Big Bad Werewolves
  • Most Appetizing Cannibals
  • Classic Ghost Stories
  • Fiendish Families
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • Literary Adaptations
  • Horrible Highways and Byways
  • Post-Apocalyptic Horrors
  • Most Regrettable Remakes
  • Towns with a Secret
  • and many more.

    With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated gems, new devotees and discriminating dark-cinema enthusiasts alike will love this big, beautiful, end-all, be-all guide to an always popular film genre. With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, The Horror Show Guide is richly illustrated. Its helpful appendix of movie credits, bibliography, and extensive index add to its usefulness.


  • Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9781578594207
    Publisher: Visible Ink Press
    Publication date: 04/01/2013
    Edition description: Second Edition, Second edition
    Pages: 496
    Sales rank: 1,113,099
    Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

    About the Author

    Mike Mayo is a former host of the nationally syndicated radio programs "Max and Mike on the Movies" and "Movie Show on Radio." He has written for the "Roanoke Times" and the "Washington Post" and is the author of "VideoHound's DVD Guide"," "VideoHound's Video Premieres," and "VideoHounds War Movies." He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Chatham, New Jersey.
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