Adam Lukeman - Fangorias 101 Best Horror Movies Youve Never Seen: A Celebration of the Worlds Most Unheralded Fright Flicks

Copyright 2003 by Adam Lukeman and Fangoria Magazine

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I would like to extend my deep gratitude to the worlds foremost literary agent, Noah Lukeman, whose drive and determination brought this idea to life. Thank you, Tony Timpone, for your significant creative contributions and deep knowledge of horror films, which shows throughout this book. Thank you, Carrie Thornton, for your great editing, hard work, and patience.

Special thanks to my supportive family for always going the extra mile for me: Gerry, Brenda, Melissa, Abram, Josh, Yana, Uncle Danny, Zoe, Remy, Jake, as well as Lea, John, and Robin. Your care shows throughout this book.

Thanks also to Chris Mendes and Stu Sporn for their ongoing excitement for this project, and for their encouragement.

ADAM LUKEMAN

I would like to extend my gratitude to Nick Holden, Andrew Schwarz, and Tom Weaver, and to Michael Gingold for compiling the Terror Trivia for this book.

ANTHONY TIMPONE

By Anthony Timpone,

Editor in Chief ofFangoriaMagazine

ere at Fangoria magazine we believe that everybody loves a good scare, and everybody loves a good horror film. If the last several years are any indication, the horror genre is continuing to grow. The Sixth Sense alone netted over $660 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of all time. This monstrous money train continued to roll on as The Mummy Returns, Hannibal, The Ring, and Signs scared up big bucks, forcing the major studios to sit up and take notice. Audiences are flocking to fright flicks like never before. Not a month goes by that a new horror movie isnt playing at your local theater.

Unfortunately, good horror is not always easy to find, because its not easy to make. How many of you suffered through Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 or Halloween: Resurrection? Did you knowGod help us!that two more direct-to-video Hellraiser sequels are coming? Suckered in by endless expenditures in advertising and hype, the masses are force-fed by the Hollywood machine. Lets face it, the mediocre mainstream horror product that frequently floods multiplexes (Ghost Ship, FeardotCom, They) usually emerges as downright disappointing (thus calling for the response: I just shelled out $10 for that?!). Those are exactly the same titles youll find cluttering the shelves at Blockbuster six months later in shiny boxes.

For the most part, Fangorias 101 Best Horror Movies Youve Never Seen is not a listing of the well-known fright flicks were all familiar with, but a guide to many unheralded gems you might not know or might have forgotten, as well as films that deserve re-evaluation. In this book youll find movies that were dumped by their distributors or were initially flops (Cherry Falls, Manhunter, Pumpkinhead), foreign winners (Cronos, The Vanishing, Funny Games), or straight-to-video sleepers waiting to be discovered (Shadowbuilder, Jack Be Nimble, Nomads). Sure, many of you (especially the dedicated readers of Fangoria magazine, which I edit) will recognize a number of the movies covered in this book, but titles such as George Romeros Day of the Dead, Brian De Palmas Sisters, and Dario Argentos Opera are frequently overshadowed by other, better-known works by the same filmmakers and are worthy of further examination.

So, Fangorias 101 Best Horror Movies Youve Never Seen is geared for both hardcore Fangoria readers who will enjoy giving some of these treasures another look, as well as the casual horror fan who thinks Wes Cravens career began with Scream. There are so many great horror films available today that for every movie mentioned in these pages, there are five more (Death Warmed Up, White of the Eye, Blue Sunshine, Burnt Offerings, Cube, Spider Baby, The Unborn I could go on and on) waiting in the wings. For more than twenty-five years, Fangoria has been covering the world of horror, both in print and now on our award-winning website (www.fangoria.com). If you like this book, youll love our magazines Forgotten Horrors column and our video and DVD review sections. Check em out, and keep exploring the big bloody world of horror entertainment!

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If you survive this night, nothing will scare you again.

Year: 1976

Director: Alfred Sole