The Making of Horror Movies

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Contents: Introduction vii Chapter 1 Tod Browning - 'Go bite yourself!' = 1 Chapter 2 Bela Lugosi - 'Dracula is Hamlet to me.' = 11 Chapter 3 Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr - 'To endure pain brought him a strange joy.' = 21 Chapter 4 Boris Karloff - 'As British as cricket and tea-time.' = 34 Chapter 5 F. W. Murnau - 'Here is a man of exceptional nature.' = 44 Chapter 6 James Whale - 'Faun-like charm.' = 51 Chapter 7 Eisa Lanchester - 'A glittering and satiric sprite.' = 61 Chapter 8 Val Lewton - 'The sultan of shudders.' = 69 Chapter 9 Terence Fisher - 'A director for hire.' = 77 Chapter 10 Vincent Price - 'Bring me my pendulum, kiddies … I feel like swingin'!' = 86 Chapter 11 Peter Cushing - 'Acting? You either can or you can't.' = 98 Chapter 12 Nigel Kneale - 'But you can't hear the sea in the kitchen ….' = 110 Chapter 13 Christopher Lee - 'Too tall to be an actor and too old to be a singer.' = 122 Chapter 14 Roger Corman - 'The Pope of Pop Cinema.' = 134 Chapter 15 Roman Polanski - 'Pray for Rosemary's Baby.' = 144 Chapter 16 Ingrid Pitt - 'The most beautiful ghoul in the world.' = 155 Chapter 17 Michael Reeves - 'And may God be with you till we meet again.' = 164 Chapter 18 John Carpenter - 'Too much of the monster.' = 173 Afterword Do You Actually Like Horror Films? = 184 Bibliography = 191 Acknowledgements = 193 Index = 194

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