The Film Books Thread

[suziginajackson]

Originally Posted by oaxaca

I'm always interested in voodoo based horror. I love it all for some reason?! from Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow to Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie to Schlesinger's The Believer's to Parker's Angel Heart. I even liked Skeleton Key!

Apologies, but 'Skeleton Key' deals with the subject of Hoodoo and not Voodoo

Hoodoo is a form of traditional folk magic, predominantly practiced by African-American, while Voodoo is a religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-westerns

Anyone got this ? Is it as good as it looks?

A heavy, hefty volume and a thoroughly fine read as per many FAB Press publications. It took me a good while to peruse the relevant book and there's a vast wealth of material of interest to both the committed and casual Spagwest fan. Passionately written despite a fair few typos, well illustrated and packed with words from many of the genre's leading lights including Guiliano Gemma, George Hilton, Gianni Garko, Tomas Milian and Franco Nero among others.

It's thanks to the above tome yours truly recently went on a Spagwest shopping spree and snapped up a fistful of vintage titles.

Highly recommended, pardner!

[Sobral]

Got these two on the way:

[Slippery Jack]

Anyone got Jonathan Rigby's new book Studies in Terror? Had a quick look through in Waterstones the other day. Its another collection of classic horror film reviews/anaylsis, but I saw quite a few interesting amd unexpected choices, and some I'd never heard of, which is always a good thing. Plus it's pretty handsomely designed, with each film getting a double page of text with poster art and stills. Think I might get it . . .

[Bringer Of Funerals]

Anyone read that Cinema Italiano because i want to buy it from Amazon

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Sobral

Got these two on the way:

It's a good book that Deodoato one. I remember paying £30 for the first edition only to find out two days later that FAB Press were going to release an updated edition

[Sobral]

Originally Posted by Pete

It's a good book that Deodoato one. I remember paying £30 for the first edition only to find out two days later that FAB Press were going to release an updated edition

Did Raro learn from them?

Besides being revised, this is a hardcover, yours is a paperback, right?

[VicDakin]

Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-westerns
Well even tho i got a stack of books to read i relented and bought it,brilliant book so thanks for the recmendation

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by Sobral

Besides being revised, this is a hardcover, yours is a paperback, right?

The original '99 release of the CH/Deodato volume was paperback whereas the recent revised tome is a hardcover edition. Personally, i own both the old 'n' new versions and it's frightening how fast time has flew by since the book's first release. Thirteen years!

[Wes]

Last film book I picked up was Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema - I haven't read it yet (must try catch a few films mentioned in the book first), but it looks hugely comprehensive, lots of text, lots of poster art and stills, and copius amounts of flesh... There's a nice preview of the book in the clip below...