Provides information on the actors, director, plot, and literary source of forty-four hundred motion pictures produced before 1972

Horror and Science Fiction Films: A Checklist

Literature & Fiction

Willis, Donald C.

Genre Fiction

Scarecrow Pr

The Films of Frank Capra

Unlike most other horror and SF surveys, which only venture as far afield as England and Europe, Willis truly reaches around the world, including many little-known or rarely documented movies from China, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines.

Horror and Science Fiction Films II (1972-1981)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Scarecrow Press

The third volume in the author's Horror and Science Fiction Films series, covering new titles released from 1981 to 1983, as well as updating entries in the original list.

Horror and Science Fiction Films III (1981-1983)

This fourth title in a unique series that combines reference and analytical qualities in chronicling the horror and science fiction genres, Horror and Science Fiction Films IV brings the earlier three volumes in the series up to date, concentrating on the period from 1984-1994, as well as updating entries from the previous volumes and adding newly-discovered titles from 1900-1983. Entries in the main list include credits, cast, synopsis, and annotation. The introduction lists 1995 releases in the genres and 1996 releases through the summer, cites the more memorable films in the genres for both the current period and 1900-1984, and serves as an index to key titles in the main list, including long-lost titles such as the -obscure silent Were Tiger and the 1931 The Phantom. Willis includes many films from around the world that are not found in any other English-language film reference work. One appendix provides thumbnail descriptions of problem and peripheral films; another updates entries in the first three books with alternate titles; and a third appendix serves as an index to the approximately 7,000 films listed in the first three volumes in the series as well as in the current volume, thus bringing the total number of films covered in this series to roughly 11,000 titles.

Horror and Science Fiction Films IV

Chronology of Classic Horror Films: the 1930s is an affectionate, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative re-examination of virtually every American horror feature from 1929 to 1939. Donald Willis takes the films, image-by-image, in the introduction, film-by-film, in the text, and year-by-year, in the highlights pages, which precede the reviews of each year's pictures. The introductory Itinerary ("Oh, the places you'll go!") chronologically "maps" the sites of the movies covered in the text, from 1929 to 1949, from Woodford's Theatre, New York City (The Last Warning), to the Forsythe estate (Master Minds). 
Willis makes the movies you've always known and loved spring to life again. The Mummy "It's either Now (Helen) or Forever (Imhotep), though her 'dreadful modern Cairo' comment hints at some backward-looking wistfulness on her part." Bride of Frankenstein "The power now belongs to Pretorius, in effect a mocking mirror reflecting back to Henry his original enthusiasm, and underlining the strain of callousness in the latter."

Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1930s

Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.

Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and 
the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies. 
If the 1930s was Universal and monsters, the 1940s was RKO and mood-states of mind. The Palladists in The Seventh Victim, Kyra (Helene Thimig), in 
Isle of the Dead and (outside RKO) Count Fosco (Sydney Greenstreet) in The 
Woman in White-all work on their victims psychologically-to the point of death. 
They wear down their chosen prey mentally. Meanwhile, Universal in the 1940s could be seen 
to have been spinning its wheels for about seven years, until the logical, comic outcome in 1948: Abbott and 
Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1940s

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