Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 1980s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror films from the 1980s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 1990s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 2010s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Steve Hutchison reviews 100 amazing horror procedurals from the 2000s. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked. How many have you seen?

Film critic Steve Hutchison analyzes and ranks 100 horror and horror-adjacent movies of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s; a total of 500 recommendations that will keep you up at night! Each description includes a synopsis, a rating, and a short review.

This book contains 255 horror movie reviews; five of the best releases each year between 1970 and 2020. Each film description contains a synopsis, a rating, and a three-paragraph review.

Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or leave the movie theater. Whether serious, kitschy, frightening, or ridiculous, horror not only arouses the senses but also raises profound questions about fear, safety, justice, and suffering. From literature and urban legends to film and television, horror’s ability to thrill has made it an integral part of modern entertainment. Thomas Fahy and twelve other scholars reveal the underlying themes of the genre in The Philosophy of Horror. Examining the evolving role of horror, the contributing authors investigate works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), horror films of the 1930s, Stephen King’s novels, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining (1980), and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Also examined are works that have largely been ignored in philosophical circles, including Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1965), Patrick Süskind’s Perfume (1985), and James Purdy’s Narrow Rooms (2005). The analysis also extends to contemporary forms of popular horror and “torture-horror” films of the last decade, including Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006), as well as the ongoing popularity of horror on the small screen. The Philosophy of Horror celebrates the strange, compelling, and disturbing elements of horror, drawing on interpretive approaches such as feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, and psychoanalytic criticism. The book invites readers to consider horror’s various manifestations and transformations since the late 1700s, probing its social, cultural, and political functions in today’s media-hungry society.

“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book Review A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare. A dark memory is calling out to them. And soon they will be drawn together, deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, where the terrifying truth awaits...

Steve Hutchison reviews 300 horror science fiction films and ranks them. Each article includes a picture of the main antagonist, a release year, a synopsis, a star rating, and a review.