Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child’s Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead – Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child’s Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead, Cube, Night of the Demons, Jaws, Psycho – Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

My Favorite Horror Movie is a ghoulish celebration of how a singular horror film can inspire someone to find their identity and artistic spirit.Featuring legends of horror with some of the most prolific and unique new voices in the genre such as Felissa Rose, Cerina Vincent, Tony Timpone, Jeffrey Reddick, Dave Parker, Rolfe Kanefsky, Ryan Lambert and Michael Gingold, My Favorite Horror Movie is an intimate glimpse into the development of their horror-obsessed minds.

Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Child's Play, Scream, Saw, Alien, Predator, Evil Dead - Film critic Steve Hutchison covers some of his favorite horror movie franchises, providing a synopsis, a review, and ranking all installments.

You savored the first My Favorite Horror Movie front to back, clinging to it everywhere you went, staying up deep into the witching hour because you couldn't put it down. You devoured it and craved more, but just like that a special edition disc with all the features, you can't bleed another drop out of it...Until now.In the grand tradition of horror franchises comes My Favorite Horror Movie 2: The New Blood, 50 more essays by fans who were inspired by that single film to make a living in horror. These filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians and artists cut deep into their psyches to illuminate us on the movie that sent them down a path of artistic mayhem and bloodshed.Discover what cinematic horrors inspired some of your favorite legends and luminaries, then experience those tales of terror for yourself?if you dare!Curated & Edited by filmmakers Christian Ackerman, Felissa Rose & Chuck Foster.Contributors: Alex Vincent (Child's Play), Alexis Iacono, Andrew Kasch, Anthony Arrigo, Brian Henderson, Brian Netto, Brooke Lewis, Buz Wallick, Camilla Jackson, Chris Lorusso, Chris Sergi, Curtis Rx, Del Howison, Dick Grunert, Dylan Matlock, Eben McGarr, Edward W. Stephens III, Erick Wessel, Fred Topel, Gavin Williams, Gus Krieger, Harry Manfredini, Jay Kay, Jeanne "Hollywood" Basone, Jef Overn, Jennifer Foster, Jesse Merlin, Joe Knetter, Jordan Downey, Josh Staples, Kevin Shulman, Larry Ross, London May, Mark Chavez, Matt Oswalt, Matthew Currie Holmes, Medusa Midnight, Michael Varrati, Mike Mendez, Paul Haynes, Paula Lindberg, Ricky Dean Logan, Ryan Turek, Sam Boxleitner, Sarah French, Steven Shea, Theresa Tilly, Thommy Hutson, Tiffany Shepis, Wendy Medrano, Yan Birch

This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses critical neglect toward horror film franchising by discussing the forces and factors governing its development across historical and contemporary terrain while also examining text and reception practices. Offering an introduction to the history of horror franchising, the chapters also examine key texts including Universal Studio monster films, Blumhouse production films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, I Spit on Your Grave, Let the Right One In, Italian zombie films, anthology films, and virtual reality. A significant contribution to studies of horror cinema and film/media franchising from the 1930s to the present day, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, media and cultural studies, franchise studies, political economy, audience/reception studies, horror studies, fan studies, genre studies, production cultures, and film histories.

The screenwriter and producer behind Stephen King’s It shares a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek survival guide that celebrates iconic horror movies both past and present! THE PERFECT GIFT FOR HORROR MOVIE LOVERS: Features spooky illustrations, a list of 100 must-see horror films, and an introduction by Nightmare on Elm Street’s Wes Craven. Are you reading this in a cornfield, at a summer camp, or in an abandoned mental institution? Have you noticed that everything is poorly lit, or that music surges every time you open a door? If the answer is yes, you’re probably trapped in a horror movie. But don’t freak out—just read this book! With it you will learn how to overcome every obstacle found in scary films, including: • How to determine what type of horror film you’re trapped in • The five types of slashers and how to defeat them • How to handle killer dolls, murderous automobiles, and other haunted objects • How to deal with alien invasions, zombie apocalypses, and other global threats • What to do if you did something last summer, if your corn has children in it, or if you suspect you’re already dead So don't be afraid: no vampire, zombie horde, cannibal hillbilly, Japanese vengeance ghost, or other horror movie monster can hurt you—as long as you have this book.

I review 300 sequels, 100 remakes, and 50 prequels of my favorite horror movie franchises. The movies are ranked. Their position in the list is established by the sum of 8 ratings: stars, gimmick, rewatchability, story, creativity, acting, quality, and creepiness.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine. "This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!" —R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends. Until Claire was taken away from her. On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.