Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., USA & UK, 2011. 541 pages.
Language: English.
This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and
behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and
fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror
cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredictable as the
decade itself.
Representative titles include Night of the Living Dead,
The Haunting, Caival of Souls, Repulsion,
The Masque of the Red Death, Targets and The Conqueror
Worm.
An historical overview chronicles the explosive growth of horror
films during this era, as well as the emergence of such dynamic
directorial talents as Roman Polanski, George Romero, Francis Ford
Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.
Clark Mark, Senn Bryan. Sixties Shockers: A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969
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