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English Gothic - Jonathan Rigby

Description: ISBN 1905287364 / Author: Jonathan Rigby / Genre: Film / Television / History of British horror movies from the silent era to the present day.

Newest Review: ... Vampire), Rigby arrives at the 1950s. There are three main chapters detailing the English horror boom, then a final chapter ... more

... talking about English horror since then (and depressing reading it makes, too). Each of the main chapters goes through its allotted years chronologically. Each of the important films gets a brief plot summary, a quote from someone involved in the filming and a contemporary press review (most of which are resoundingly negative), plus a picture (usually of Peter Cushing looking worried) before going into a lengthy description of the film itself, its pros and cons and so on. Rigby doesn't just choose the obvious class...more

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English Gothic - Jonathan Rigby: Hammer Horror, Vincent Price etc. (1645 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 22/08/01 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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There are dozens and dozens of books available that talk about horror films. As a fan of the genre, I think this is mostly a good thing. A lot of the books are really bad - either trying to cover too much material in one go, without anything getting the coverage it deserves, or being tedious fan boy nonsense focusing primarily on movies made in the last 20 years or so. Or books can go the other way, being too specialised. There are books available about fairly obscure cult directors like Pete Walker or Ruggero Deodato that look like they're pretty good, but I'm not interested enough in the directors in question to want to buy a whole book about them. ...

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