From the author of "Splatter Movies" and "Hollywood Gangland". Since the advent of moving pictures, film-makers have sought to scare the viewer. Fear remains one of the deepest, primal emotions, and this book profiles 20 directors who have tapped into it. McCarty coined the phrase "splatter films". He covers the spectrum of "fearmakers" from George A. Romero to Jacques Torneur and Roman Polanski, from Roland West to John Carpenter and David Cronenburg. There are also biographies of lesser-known directors, such as Benjamin Christensen and Henri-Georges Clouzot, and more than 200 graphic photographs illustrating the "fearmakers" art.
- ISBN10 0863698697
- ISBN13 9780863698699
- Publish Date 16 March 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Virgin Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English