Screams for a New Millennium
Screams for a New Millennium

Author: Adrian Roe

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781794755628

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Screams for a New Millennium offers a fascinating and insightful journey through the horror movies of the '00s. An intriguing and pivotal decade for the genre, this era of filmmaking would become synonymous with returning the horror film to a visceral and subversive place that would very much echo the tone of the '70s. Remakes of many classic films were also produced during this period, while new horror franchises and villains were created with uncompromising and terrifying effect. Supported by exclusive interviews from Paul Verhoeven, Joe Lynch, Jocelin Donahue, Jamie Blanks, Marcus Dunstan and many others, this book covers hundreds of films across various subgenres, enabling the reader to revisit a wide range of movies and memories from this hugely important moment in horror history.

Text & Presentation, 2012
Text & Presentation, 2012

Author: Graley Herren

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-12-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0786471093

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Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international and interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.

Scream 2
Scream 2

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Tagline: There's a student out of bed. If they don't find him or her, the screams will only double! Plot Synopsis: It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!

Scream
Scream

Author: Steven West

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1800347057

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Wes Craven's Scream (1996) emerged at the point where the early eighties American slasher cycle had effectively morphed into the post-Fatal Attraction trend for Hollywood thrillers that incorporated key slasher movie tropes. Scream emerged as a spiritual successor to Wes Craven's unpopular but critically praised previous film New Nightmare (1994), which evolved from his frustration at having lost creative control over his most popular creation, Freddy Krueger, and rebirthed the character in a postmodern context. Scream appropriates many of the concepts, conceits, and in-jokes inherent in New Nightmare, albeit in a much more commercial context that did not alienate teenage audiences who were not around to see the movies that were being referenced. This Devil's Advocate offers a full exploration of Scream, including its structure, its many reference points (such as the prominent use of Halloween as a kind of sacred text), its marketing ("the new thriller from Wes Craven" – not a horror film), and legacy for horror cinema in the new millennium.

Taking Shape
Taking Shape

Author: Dustin McNeill

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780578586816

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Silver Shamrock. Thorn. White Horses. It's all in here. Join authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins for a deep dive into the evolution of Halloween's vast mythology. Extensively researched, TAKING SHAPE is the ultimate guide to the first forty years of Haddonfield history. Featuring exclusive interviews with filmmakers from every installment, prepare to gain new insight into Halloween's iconic boogeyman. Oh, you don't believe in the boogeyman? You should. TAKING SHAPE includes: - Comprehensive story analysis on the entire series - A rundown of all deleted and alternate scenes - A look at what scholars got right (and wrong) about H1 - Exclusive details on Nigel Kneale's original H3 script - Comparisons of early scripts to the final theatrical films - A rare interview with H5 screenwriter Michael Jacobs - An exhaustive account of H6's troubled production - An examination of H20's roots as a direct-to-video sequel - A revealing look behind the grunge of the Rob Zombie era - Insight into how test audiences and execs shaped the films - In-depth dissection of the official novelizations

Scream 2
Scream 2

Author: Anthony Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13:

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Sydney (Neve Campbell) and tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) survived the events of the first "Scream," but their nightmare isn't over. When two college students are murdered at a sneak preview of "Stab," a movie based on the events from the first film, it's clear a copycat killer is on the loose. Sydney and Gail, as well as fellow survivors Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy) have to find out who is behind this new murder spree, before they all end up dead.

Screams & Nightmares
Screams & Nightmares

Author: Brian J. Robb

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1913538737

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Writer, producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully tapped into the horror vein for over forty years, serving up scary, funny, cutting-edge thrillers that have become classics in the genre. His films have been both critical and commercial successes, most notably Nightmare on Elm Street, which spawned a series of sequels and made Craven (and his creation, Freddy Kruger) an international sensation. He then created a second indelible series in the horror movie trope with Scream. In Screams & Nightmares, Brian J. Robb examines Craven's entire career, from his low-budget beginnings to his most recent box office hits, from the banned thriller The Last House on the Left and the cult classic The Hills Have Eyes to the outrageous Shocker and The People Under the Stairs. Through exclusive interviews with Craven, Robb provides in-depth accounts of the making of each of the films – including the final instalments of the Scream series – Craven's foray into writing novels, and his numerous television projects.

CINEGRAPHIC SCREAMS 2
CINEGRAPHIC SCREAMS 2

Author: Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi

Publisher: Cinegraphic Screams

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838359560

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Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye. CINEGRAPHIC SCREAMS 2 presents 50 of the very best horror film posters created in Japan in the latter decades of the 20th century, the peak years of creativity for this art-form. This volume focuses on posters designed to promote indigenous Japanese productions. The artworks are reproduced in full-color, full-page format, with films ranging from classic interpretations of Japanese ghost stories to more modern variations steeped in visceral terror.

Studying Horror Cinema
Studying Horror Cinema

Author: Bryan Turnock

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1911325906

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Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key sequences. Sitting alongside such acknowledged classics as Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby are analyses of influential non-English language films as Kwaidan, Bay of Blood, and Let the Right One In. The author concludes with a chapter on 2017’s blockbuster It, the most financially successful horror film of all time, making Studying Horror Cinema the most up-to-date overview of the genre available.

Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema
Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema

Author: Troy Bordun

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3319658948

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This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined ‘extreme cinema’. In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films’ forms and narratives. The book thus adds to the present literature on extreme cinema and film theory, yet sets itself apart by fully deploying genre theory alongside the methodological and stylistic approaches of Stanley Cavell, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks, and Eugenie Brinkema.