About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.

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Review

Not only is this useful in reference, it's a browsers delight...should be a standard addition to reference shelves...highly recommended. --Choice

Presents substantial filmographic information...a useful source. --Booklist/RBB

This much-needed guide arranges 2,500 titles under 81 subject areas. --Neil Barron, Editor of Fantasy and Horror

About the Author

Psychometrist Bryan Senn is the author of A Year of Fear: A Day-by-Day Guide to 366 Horror Films (2007), Golden Horrors (2006) and Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema. His work has appeared in Filmfax, Cult Movies, Shivers, Midnight Marquee Press and Monsters from the Vault. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. **John Johnson is the author of Cheap Tricks and Class Acts (McFarland, 1996). He lives in Keizer, Oregon.