Writers defend horror films that have been trashed by film critics and horror film fans. Titles covered include Maniac (1934), Sh! The Octopus, Voodoo Man, Unknown Island, Scared Stiff, Indestructible Man, Rodan, The Tingler, Flesh Eaters, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, King Kong (1976) and Dune.

Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film

Humor & Entertainment

Svehla, Gary J.

Movies

Midnight Marquee Press

In this second volume of cinematic guilty pleasures, our writers again eloquently explain why movies which the majority of viewers consider subpar are so very special as movie experiences to them personally. These movies are not extraordinary in any way, and most of them contain fundamental flaws in craft, yet as filtered through the psyches of the writers involved, these guilty pleasures ultimately become something very special. And thus the reason why this book exists... to demonstrate the fact that the pleasures movies give far outweigh any guilt factor involved in selections such as The She Creature, Robot Monster, Omega Man, Frankenstein’s Daughter, Giant Gila Monster, Private Parts, Horror Island, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Strange Door, Juggernaut and many other curious choices.

Son of Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film

Boris Karloff

Biographies & Memoirs

Kensington Publishing

Each Christmas we shamelessly wallow in sweet sentiment brought to us courtesy of Hollywood, a glittering Tinsel Town filled with holiday spirit. It wouldn’t seem like Christmas if we didn’t spend some quality time with Jimmy Stewart and the folks of Bedford Falls or the March sisters—Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy. Scrooge is always a welcome guest in our home during the festive season, as well as newcomers such as the seemingly cursed but eternally optimistic Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Ralphie and his quest for a BB gun in the seminal A Christmas Story, a film that has justifiably attained classic Christmas status. Our love of Christmas movies goes back to our childhood as many of the chapters in this volume relate. Christmas is our favorite time of year, a time people seem a little friendlier, children more closely resemble angels and family ties are a little more important. We decided it was time we share our love of the season and our favorite Christmas movies with other holiday cinema fans

It's Christmastime at the Movies: An A-Z Guide of Our Favorite Holiday Films

For many boomer horror fans, the Golden Age of Horror was the 1950s and 1960s, and occurred, courtesy, not of Universal Studios, but, from what those fans consider England's greatest export, Hammer Film Productions. 
What teenager could argue with Technicolor blood, smolderingly sexy vampires (male and female) and heaving bosoms? 
Memories of Hammer brings fans the reminiscences of the people in front of and behind the cameras at Hammer including: James Bernard, Martine Beswicke, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Francis, Val Guest, Christopher Lee, Suzanna Leigh, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Barbara Shelley, Yutte Stensgaard and Virginia Wetherell. 
This important film history documents the talks give at the FANEX film conventions throughout the years. 
This book is a numbered limited edition.

Memories of Hammer

Svehla, Susan

Midnight Marquee Pr Inc

The history of ghost cinema, as well as the haunting literature upon which the films are often based, is a noble tradition. Ghost films go back as far as the era of the Silents. This Midnight Marquee Press volume presents respected film writers’ personal analyses of their favorite ghost films. Not necessarily the best of the genre, but always films of merit. The Mt. Everest of ghost films—the acclaimed classics—The Uninvited, The Innocents, The Haunting—are of course included. But also many neglected cinema specters are covered: Carnival of Souls, Lady in White, Portrait of Jennie, High Plains Drifter, etc. Most of these films are known by the average film buff, but several titles included may not be recognized (but are equally of merit and should be sought out). Often Ghost films have been overlooked by film historians and critics alike. This revised collection of Cinematic Hauntings hopes to remedy the situation.

Cinematic Hauntings

Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.

Midnight Marquee is pleased to present the second entry in the MidMar Actors Series. This revised volume features in-depth analyses of 30 of the films that helped create the legend of Boris Karloff. Arsenic and Old Lace Before I Hang Behind the Mask The Black Cat Black Friday The Black Room The Body Snatcher Bride of Frankenstein British Intelligence Charlie Chan at the Opera The Climax Comedy of Terrors Corridors of Blood Devil’s Island Die, Monster, Die! Frankenstein Frankenstein 1970 The Haunted Strangler House of Frankenstein Invisible Menace The Lost Patrol The Man Who Changed His Mind The Man They Could Not Hang The Man With Nine Lives The Mask of Fu Manchu The Mummy The Old Dark House Scarface Targets The Walking Dead West of Shanghai

Boris Karloff: Midnight Marquee Actors Series

Midnight Marquee 71/72

Bitches, Bimbos and Virgins is the history of women in the horror cinema, profiling their evolution from coffee maker to scientist, from seductress and victim to kick-ass heroine, and finally detailing their emergence as well-drawn characters who play important roles in horror movie history—past, present and future. Chapters include: • 150 Years of Women and Horror: She Has Always Lived in the Castle • He Done Her Wrong: The Fate of Women in Golden Age Horrors • Women Take a Bite Out of Classic Horror: Dracula’s Daughter and Mark of the Vampire • The Golden Age of the Scream Queen • Empowered Women in the Val Lewton Canon • Bad Girls Meet Bad Ends • Attack of the Alien Women from Outer Space! • Harlots, Hedonists and Heroines: The Women of Hammer Films • Queen Bitches of the Universe • Scream and Scream Again! Horror’s Honor List of Scream Queens • Women to Die for—1960s Onward: Midmar Readers Have Their Say... • Attack of the Movie Poster Pin-Up Girls • Middle Earth’s Heroines • Deadly Delights—Movies Featuring Our Favorite Queens of Evil • Dominatrix Divas: MidMar Readers Pick Their Faves

Bitches, Bimbos and Virgins: Women of the Horror Film

Svehla, A. Susan

With the re-emergence of Hammer and their new releases including Let Me In (2010), which received critical praise, and their forthcoming 2012 release of The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe already garnering interest, we wanted to take a look back at our old faves and wallow in fond memories --even as we anxiously await their new films. So, for all those fans, who were vampire, Frankenstein and werewolf fans before it was cool, we offer a series of chapters on our favorite Hammer films. This book is not a complete listing of Hammer films--that's been done. Nor is it a chronological listing of their cinematic output. Rather it comprises articles from Midnight Marquee as well as several new entries that we think Hammer fans will enjoy. Chapters include: VAMPIRES Hammer Films and the Resurrection of Dracula Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher and Hammer's Vampire Christopher Lee, Count Dracula and Hammer Films Peter Cushing and Van Helsing The Dracula Films with No Dracula! Hammer's Hunt For A New Vein of Vampire Film: Three Semi-Classics from the 1970s Why the 1970s Bite Let Me In: The Return of Hammer and the Spirit of Val Lewton FRANKENSTEIN Evolving Worlds of Hammer's Baron Frankenstein SCI-FI X--The Unknown Val Guest and Nigel Kneale: Hammer's Dynamic Duo FANTASY Surviving the Lost Worlds of Hammer The Hammer Factory: Hammer Films, Corman Style The Abominable Snowman The Curse of the Werewolf The Devil Rides Out MUMMIES Christopher Lee Is The Mummy; Peter Cushing Is Kharismatic Hammer Films Unearth The Mummy PSYCHOS The Phantom of the Opera Paranormic and Nightmare To the Devil... a Daughter WAR Hammer Declares War Night Creatures

Midnight Marquee Studio Series: HAMMER

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