The horror film : an introduction /
A stranded group approaches the ancient house where a dim light burns in an upper window. As the full moon rises a pain-wracked man gasps at fur growing on his palms. Thunder crashes and lighting illuminates the operating table lifted into the night sky. Eager for furtive sex on a dark night, a youn...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2025.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | New approaches to film genre ;
[2]. |
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| Summary: | A stranded group approaches the ancient house where a dim light burns in an upper window. As the full moon rises a pain-wracked man gasps at fur growing on his palms. Thunder crashes and lighting illuminates the operating table lifted into the night sky. Eager for furtive sex on a dark night, a young couple hears twigs snap as an apparition raises a hooked blade above them. Seated in a movie theater, these sights and sounds can only mean you are watching a horror film, paradoxically prepared, even eager to see things that may make you want to avert your eyes. Ominous places, grotesque semi-humans or outright monsters await, ready to make you confront your own fragile mortality. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xviiii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781119715269 1119715261 |