101 Horror Movies: You Must See Before You Die

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As any horror fan knows, the genre isn't limited to ghouls, blood, and gore, but is as broad as cinema itself. Discover the haunting pull of 'the other side' in movies like "The Sixth Sense", "Cat People", "Poltergeist" and "Don't Look Now". Brave the perils of nature in "Jaws", "The Birds", and "Alien". Learn that people aren't always as they seem, as in "Dr. Jekyll" and "Mr. Hyde", "Peeping Tom", "Psycho", and "The Shining". Confront evil in human form - "The Last House on the Left", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "Friday the 13th" - and in its purer distillation in "Rosemary's Baby", "The Omen" and "The Exorcist"."101 Horror Films You Must See Before You Die" gives you a thorough appreciation of the genre, because it approaches the subject chronologically. You'll move through gothic classics like James Whale's "The Old Dark House" (1932) and Terence Fisher's "Dracula" (1958), to zombie movies like "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) and "28 Days Later" (2002). All the sub-genres are covered too, from "Eyes Without a Face" (mad scientist), "The Howling" (werewolf), "Nightmare on Elm Street" (slasher), to "The Silence of the Lambs" (serial killer). And you'll learn that it's not just American teenagers who are horror-film fodder. There are classic horror films from Japan ("Onibaba"), Russia("Vij"), Italy ("Suspiria"), France ("Les Diaboliques"), Belgium ("Man Bites Dog"), Germany ("M"), and the Netherlands ("The Vanishing"). Immerse yourself in the most compelling of movie genres. Prepare to be possessed - and whatever you do, don't answer the phone.From the Inside Flap
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari • Häxan • Dracula • Freaks • Bride of Frankenstein • The Wolf Man • Les Diaboliques • The Hills Have Eyes • Eyes Without a

Face • Cat People • Psycho • Nosferatu • Peeping Tom • The Birds • Onibaba Vij • Rosemary’s Baby • Night of the Living Dead • The Wicker Man • Don’t Look Now • Hour of the Wolf • The Exorcist • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jaws • Carrie • Suspira • The Omen • Dawn of the Dead • Halloween • Alien • The Shining • An American Werewolf in London • Poltergeist • A Nightmare on Elm Street • Friday the 13th • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer • The Vanishing • The Last House on the Left • Jacob’s Ladder • The Silence of the Lambs • Candyman • Man Bites Dog • Scream • Ju-on • Ringu • The Blair Witch Project • Odishon • Devil’s Backbone • The Sixth Sense • The Others • 28 Days Later

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From the classics of Georges Méliès and F.W. Murnau to the blood-fests of Tobe Hooper and the great David Cronenberg, 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die explores the enduring popularity of the horror flick. Fascinating and disturbing, these films expose our most primal fears: our nightmares, our terrors, our vulnerability and revulsion, our terror of the unknown, and our fear of sex, death, or loss of identity.

The menace of a monster or spirit in a spooky mansion or along a deserted highway thrills and excites even as it horrifies. Movie menace has come in many forms and has given rise to some of cinema’s most iconic characters, from Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi’s Dracula to Leatherface, Carrie, Candyman, and Hannibal Lector. One thing unites them all—the power to entice and repulse simultaneously.

With insight from critics, film historians, and academics, 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die applies knowledge and passion to over a century of vampires, zombies, killer clowns, invasions from space, homicidal preachers, vacationing Satanists, tongue-slurping cannibals, murderous demon children, disturbed Vietnam vets, and sentient machines. After seeing these films, will you ever sleep with the light off again?

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Steven Jay Schneider is a film critic, scholar, and producer with M.A. degrees in Philosophy and Cinema Studies from Harvard University and New York University respectively. He is editor of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die, both published by Barron’s, as well as the author and editor of many other books on film.