HORROR FILM AESTHETICS

Horror film & book reviews by Thomas M. Sipos, author of Vampire Nation and Halloween Candy.

Unlike science fiction, horror is more a genre of cinema rather than of text. Sci-fi is cerebral, a genre of ideas; horror is emotive and viseral, a genre that strikes deeper chords within us. Over the years, I've written on horror film & TV for The Journal of Horror Cinema, Filmfax, Midnight Marquee, Horror, Sci-Fi Universe, and Horrorfind. The latter no longer publishes film & book reviews, and has removed them from their site. So I'm reprinting my Horrorfind reviews, and some from Horror magazine, here. It will take time to upload them all. Then I'll add new ones. If you find them enlightening, you may enjoy my horror film analyses, "The Pragmatic Aesthetics of Low-Budget Horror Cinema" and "But Is It Horror?: Defining and Demarcating the Genre," available in Halloween Candy.

Horror Film Reviews

Anaconda (1997)
Blood and Roses (French-Italian, 1960)
Blood Relations (1987)
Blood -- The Last Vampire (Japanese, 2001)
Castle Freak (1995)
Crucible of Horror (British, 1971)
Crucible of Terror (British, 1971)
Curtains (Canadian, 1982)
Dark, The (1979)
Devil's Nightmare, The (Belgian-Italian, 1971, aka The Devil Walks at Midnight)
Embrace of the Vampire (1994)
End of Days (1999)
Final Destination (2000)
From Beyond (1986)
Gothic (1986)
Great Alligator, The (Italian, 1979)
Haunted (1995)
Haunting, The (1963)
Hell Cab .(1998)
Hell Night .(1981)
Hollow Man (2000)
Horror at 37,000 Feet (TVM, 1972)
Horror Exress (British-Spanish 1972)
House That Screamed, The (Spanish, 1969)
Initiation of Sarah, The (TVM, 1978)
Invasion of the Flesh Hunters (Italian-Spanish 1980)
Jar, The (1984)
Lost Souls (2000)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
My Bloody Valentine (Canadian, 1981)
Nadja.(1994)
Nightstalker (2002)
Offerings (1988)
Paralyzed..(Italian, 1971, aka Short Night of the Glass Dolls)
Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings (1994)
Rats, The
Re-Animator.(1985)
Sentinel, The (1976)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Species (1995)
Spirits of the Dead (1969, French-Italian)
Stage Fright (Australian, 1983, aka Nightmares)
Terror (British, 1978)
Terror of Frankenstein (Swedish-Irish, 1977)
Theater of Blood (British, 1972)
Unseen, The (1980)
Velvet Vampire, The (1971)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Zombie Island Massacre (1984)
Zombie Rampage (1992)

Horror Film Book Reviews

The A-Z of Horror Films, by Howard Maxford
BFI Companion to Horror, edited by Kim Newman
Cinematic Hauntings, by Gary J. and Susan Svehla
Creature Features, by John Stanley
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth, by Kim Paffenroth
Monsters From the Id, by E. Michael Jones
Night Stalker Companion: A 25th Anniversary Tribute, by Mark Dawidziak
Tales From the Crypt: The Official Archives, by Digby Diehl
Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s, edited by Harvey Fenton & David Flint

Horror Culture Book Reviews

Flowers From Hell: A Satanic Reader, by Nikolas Schreck
Grand Guignol: Theater of Fear and Terror, by Mel Gordon
Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, by Thomas F. Monteleone

Horror Fiction Book Reviews
Monster of Minnesota, by Mark Sumner
Teeth, by Edo Van Belkon

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