The Film Books Thread - Page 26

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #**251** 23rd November 2010, 09:47 PM

Good call on the commentaries - really quite interesting, if not very useful

As for what I'm doing well I'm afriad it's the super obvious - Blood Feast. I know, it's been done a million times - I'm talking about it in regard to the way it was promoted/marketed through time (originally, video, dvd, blah blah blah). We have to do a research portfolio project about any film and how it sells itself on spectacle. Was thinking of doing Curse of Frankenstein - first UK horror in colour, but I talked about that not too long ago. 'First' gore film it is then, I guess.

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #**252** 24th November 2010, 09:21 PM

Well, well, well, you learn something new every day, don't ya. Upon my quest for finding all things Blood Feast, I found this baby - the novelisation of the film! I didn't even know it exsisted! It's written by HGL himself and is pretty damn rare, I guess. You can pick it up from Amazon brand new for £90 + But forget that! I just ordered it used for £2ish.

Here's the amazon link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Feast...0637124&sr=1-3

And if anyone's interested this link has a whole load of horror films that have been novelised (including pictures of the book's covers) - excellent stuff!

Ultimate Horror Novelizations & Movie Tie-Ins Thread - BLOODY-DISGUSTING

Stephen@Cult Labs · #**253** 25th November 2010, 06:28 PM

My memory is all shot to hell usually after a few weeks, but I believe it was the Blood Feast novel that HGL briefly talked about and showed in The Godfather Of Gore documentary (I'm probably wrong!).

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #**254** 25th November 2010, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

My memory is all shot to hell usually after a few weeks, but I believe it was the Blood Feast novel that HGL briefly talked about and showed in The Godfather Of Gore documentary (I'm probably wrong!).

Oooh really? Awesome! What's that documentary like, Stephen? Hopefully Something Weird will release it soon.

Stephen@Cult Labs · #**255** 25th November 2010, 06:41 PM

The Doc is fantastic and very funny. I'll be picking it up too when it gets released.

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #**256** 25th November 2010, 06:56 PM

Hopefully that wont be too long. Theres a book of the same title about his films, but its too expensive.

bdc · #**257** 25th November 2010, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by iluvdvds@Cult Labs

Well, well, well, you learn something new every day, don't ya. Upon my quest for finding all things Blood Feast, I found this baby - the novelisation of the film! I didn't even know it exsisted! It's written by HGL himself and is pretty damn rare, I guess. You can pick it up from Amazon brand new for £90 + But forget that! I just ordered it used for £2ish.

Wasn't there also a reprint?

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #**258** 25th November 2010, 08:23 PM

Well according to Amazon (!) there was one in 1988 and a re-print in 1991 - Amazon.co.uk: "blood feast": Books

Sam · #**259** 28th November 2010, 03:56 PM

I've stumbled across some decent fim books this week, all for £1.99 each!!

James Whale: a new world of Gods and Monsters
The Rough Guide to Sci Fi
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies

snipsmovies · #**260** 7th December 2010, 06:57 PM

Picked up the worst 'film book' I have ever read this week. Its called '150 Movies You Should Die Before You See', and I think it got published about 2 weeks ago.

It really is a shocker. I picked it up primarily due to the great title, and thought it would be full of some really awful exerpts of film history. To my astonishment it contains some of my favourite movies of all time - all written off by the author as 'awful movies'

I give you...

Deep Red !
Suspiria !
Cemetery Man !
Braindead !
Bad Taste !
Re-Animator !

...and that's only a few.

Here's the book