Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.

Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008

Humor & Entertainment

Hallenbeck, Bruce G.

Movies

McFarland Company

After reading Fortean researcher Bruce Hallenbeck's book, one instantly realizes that not only do 'monsters' exist in our computerized world, but the Northwoods seem to be teeming with them. From the Adirondacks and the Catskills to the depths of Lake Champlain and the shores of Montauk--from aliens in the skies above to gators in the sewers below--Hallenbeck takes the reader on a journey with accounts of cryptids around every corner. Awareness to this realm offers us an important glimpse into a reality often overlooked by modern mainstream science. --Paul B. Bartholomew, author of Bigfoot Encounters in New York and New England
Bizarre beasts of the Empire State featured in this volume include:
<li>Champ, the Lake Champlain Monster</li>
<li>Adirondack Bigfoot</li>
<li>The Kinderhook Creature</li>
<li>Sewer Alligators</li>
<li>The Montauk Monster</li>
<li>Catamounts</li>

Monsters of New York: Mysterious Creatures in the Empire State

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Stackpole Books

<li>Stories of the best known of the Garden State's cryptid population</li>
<li>From the bustling cities and Down the Shore to the creepy Pine Barrens</li>
<li>Research from the world's leading cryptozoologist</li>
<li>Extensive section on the state's most infamous creature, the Jersey Devil</li>
<li>Also includes Big Red Eye of the Great Swamp in Somerset County, Hoboken Monkey-Man, Lake Hopatcong Monster, Cape May Sea Serpent, the Wooo-wooo, and the Lizardman of Great Meadows</li>

Monsters of New Jersey: Mysterious Creatures in the Garden State

Coleman, Loren

No one has influenced the horror genre more than the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s works have inspired hundreds of films, and this influence is studied in universities around the globe. This is the first time ever that every Poe influenced film has been analyzed in a single book. Poe Pictures is an invaluable resource to film studies programs and also a critical guide for every fan of these films. Included is a detailed analysis and critical review of the importance of each film, perspectives from many who have worked on these classic films, and over 100 black and white photographs from the films. With insights into where Poe ends and cinematic liberties begin, Bruce Hallenbeck has fashioned a film by film analysis of Poe-inspired films, including Corman’s classic AIP series. These films have never left the imagination of the generation that grew up watching them.

Poe Pictures: The Film Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe

Tomahawk Press

THE HAMMER VAMPIRE is an in-depth examination of how a tiny film studio on the banks of the Thames changed a genre forever. Hammer may not have invented the vampire film, but its technicians and actors certainly perfected it. The screen vampire as we know and love it today, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Twilight and True Blood, would not have existed in its present form but for a series of sixteen Gothic horror films produced by Hammer between 1958 and 1974.Hammer’s greatest contribution to the vampire film may have been in its evolution of the female of the species the seductive vampire woman, who ultimately proved to be far more deadly than the male...

The Hammer Vampire (British Cult Cinema)

Hemlock Books Limited

Hammer Fantasy & Sci-fi (British Cult Cinema)

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks

Humor

Applause

The Little Studio of Horrors
Bursting upon sleepy 1954 Hollywood like a radioactive mushroom, American International Pictures put its pedal to the metal for the next 25 years, spewing forth cinematic pop culture faster than any other film studio, and steaming up the Saturday nights of its grindhouse fans.
In this well-researched book, packed with over 130 photos, film historian Bruce G. Hallenbeck tells the definitive story of AIP and its low-budget canon of big-screen features, from gothic horror and giant creatures, to beach parties, teenage monsters, and blaxploitation.
Hallenbeck shares behind-the-screen stories, presents cogent summaries and analyses of the AIP films, and examines how AIP's fearless, populist filmmaking ultimately led to its demise at the hands of its better-funded rivals.
Whatever your thing—teenage werewolves, bikini-clad beach babes, amazing colossal beasts, women in prison, Vincent Price, bad-ass muthas, or any of the multitude of other essential characters that inhabit the frazzled edges of American pop culture—you'll find it here, fangs bared (sometimes breasts bared, too), your guilty pleasure until the credits roll.

Rock 'n' Roll Monsters: The American International Pictures Story

Pulp Hero Press

The Kinderhook Creature and Beyond: A Personal Reminiscence

Occult & Paranormal

Independently published

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