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English
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"From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome...
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Book
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
35 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Obsessed with horror films, ten-year-old Alonzo dreams of transforming himself into "The Boy of a Thousand Faces" and gets his wish in an unexpected way.
7) Run time
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English
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LIGHTS. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn't think twice before signing the dotted line. CAMERA. Adele quickly makes her way to set, deep into the isolated and wintry woods of...
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English
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"Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders--and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears--mortality, failure, loneliness--can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly...
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English
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"In [this book], cultural critic Joseph Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of this controversial movie that rattled the American psyche" --Amazon.com.
"When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence. The film--in which a group of teenagers meet a gruesome fate when they stumble upon a ramshackle...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies...especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill...
11) Silver nitrate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers"--
12) Candyman
Language
English
Description
Oscar� winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts...
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Toy Story's halloween special is retold in this illustrated book. Bonnie and her mother stop at a hotel for the night and the toys uncover a toy-napping desk clerk and arrange a spectacular rescue that requires Jessie to face her biggest fears.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"A deliciously twisty YA thriller about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror"--
Scholarship student Rachel keeps to herself at Manchester Prep, preferring the company of horror films to trust fund babies. When a prank puts her on the radar of a mysterious student society, "The Mary Shelley Club", they subject her to a number of escalating Fear Tests which eventually puts them on the radar of a serial killer.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...
18) The night fright
Author
Series
Billie B. Brown volume 15
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
43 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Billie loves Rebecca's older sisters. They make her feel so grown-up! But is Billie grown-up enough to handle the scary movies they like?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Progreso S.A de C.V
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jorge Fernandez, a boy who is afraid of nearly everything--especially horror movies--finds himself in an alternate reality devoted to the creation of just that kind of film.
Author
Publisher
Nightfire/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps...
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