JONATHAN PENNER

This exciting new visual history examines the genre in thematic, historical, and aesthetic terms Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypal fears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specific anxieties, cinematic horror is at once timeless and utterly of its time and place. This exciting new visual history, which includes unique images from the David Del Valle archive, examines the genre in thematic, historical, and aesthetic terms, breaking it down into the following fundamental categories: Slashers & Serial Killers; Cannibals, Freaks & Hillbillys; Revenge of Nature & Environmental Horror; Sci-fi Horror; The Living Dead; Ghosts & Haunted Houses; Possession, Demons & Evil Tricksters; Voodoo, Cults & Satanists; Vampires & Werewolves; and The Monstrous-Feminine. Among the many films featured are classics such as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien, The Exorcist, Dracula, and The Wicker Man.

El cine de terror es, de todos los géneros cinematográficos, el que cuenta con una popularidad más imperecedera y una mayor diversidad geográfica. Se podría decir que todos los países que producen peliculas filman alguna de terror. Con su representacion de miedos profundamente arraigados, incluso arquetipicos, y su plasmacion de angustias cultural y socialmente especificas, el terror cinematografico es a la vez intemporal y totalmente caracteristico de su epoca y lugar. Esta emocionante historia visual, en la que se incluyen imagenes unicas procedentes de los archivos de David del Valle, explora los aspectos tematicos, historicos y esteticos del genero.