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Chapter 2. A Short History of the Horror Film, Beginnings to 1945

Figure 2.1 Expressionist Distortion: Mad Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) in his office at the mental institution in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Source: Directed by Robert Wiene. Produced by Decla. Fair Use. Figure 2.2 Theatrical Flair: Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Source: Directed by Rupert Julian. Produced by Universal Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 2.3 Doppelgänger: Frederic March in the classic film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). Source: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Produced by Paramount Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 2.4 Horror Stars of the genre's classic period: The Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff) gently tends his late friend Ygor (Bela Lugosi) in Son of Frankenstein (1939). Source: Directed by Roland V. Lee. Produced by Universal Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 2.5 Sequels and Series in the World War II Era: Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). Source: Directed by Roy William Neill. Produced by Universal Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 2.6 Mood over Monsters: The desperate Jacqueline (?Jean Brooks) stalked by cultists in Val Lewton's production of The Seventh Victim (1943). Source: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Produced by RKO-Radio Pictures. Fair Use.

Chapter 3. A Short History of the Horror Film, 1945 to Present

Figure 3.1 Atomic Terrors: The most famous of many radioactive monsters in the post-World War II years, Japan's Godzilla (1954). Source: Directed by Ishiro Honda. Produced by Toho Film Co. Fair use. Figure 3.2 Hammer updates the classic genre movies: Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in Horror of Dracula (1958), part of a new series featuring more graphic violence and sexuality. Source: Directed by Terence Fisher. Produced by Hammer Film Productions. Fair Use. Figure 3.3 Poe goes to the drive-in: Sebastian Medina (Vincent Price) seized by the delusion of becoming his father, an infamous Inquisitor, in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). Source: Directed by Roger Corman. Produced by American International Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 3.4 Essence of Exploitation: American International Pictures (AIP) ad slick for The Thing With Two Heads (1972), combining the studio's horror tradition and outlaw biker movies of the 1960s with the 1970s "Blaxploitation" cycle. Source: American International Pictures Pressbook, The Thing With Two Heads. (Author's collection.) Fair Use. Figure 3.5 Splatter: One of makeup artist Tom Savini's gory zombie creations in Dawn of the Dead (1978). Source: Directed by George A. Romero. Produced by Laurel Group/Dawn Associates. Fair Use. Figure 3.6 Post-modern Quotation: The Funhouse (1981) opens with self-conscious reference to Psycho by way of Halloween. A parodic "rehearsal" before the "real" violence later in the movie. Source: Directed by Tobe Hooper. Produced by Universal Pictures/Mace Neufeld Productions. Fair Use. Figure 3.7 The slasher cycle and a new monster pantheon in the 1980s: The indestructible Jason Voorhees does it again, and again, and again in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). Source: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Directed by John Carl Buechler. Produced by Paramount Pictures/Friday Four Films/Sean S. Cunningham Films. Fair Use. Figure 3.8 Torture Porn: Terrified Paxton (Jay Hernandez), menaced by a chain saw-wielding sadist in one of the most harrowing scenes of Hostel (2005). Source: Directed by Eli Roth. Produced by Next Entertainment/Lions Gate Films. Fair Use. Figure 3.9 Real Scary: The actors cast in The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2009) used their real names as their characters' names, blurring distinctions between fiction and reality. Source: Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Produced by Haxan Films/Artisan Entertainment. Fair Use. Figure 3.10 Artist Annie Graham (Toni Collette) shaken by a miniature likeness of her late, still imposing mother in Hereditary (2018). Source: Directed by Ari Aster. Produced by Palm Star Media/A24. Fair Use. Figure 3.11 High School horrors. Supremely confident Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her anxious friend, "Needy" (Amanda Seyfried) in Jennifer's Body (2009). Source: Directed by Karyn Kusama. Produced by Dune Entertainment/Twentieth Century Fox. Fair Use. Figure 3.12 Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o) is a mother determined to protect her family against uncanny threats in Us (2019), a tale permitting the principal cast to play dual roles. Source: Directed by Jordan Peele. Produced by Monkeypaw Productions/Blumhouse Productions. Fair Use.

Chapter 4. Monsters Among Us: Cases of Social Reception

Figure 4.1 "Rosie the Riveter" for the genre in wartime: Vampire-hunter Lady Jane Ainsley (Frieda Inescort) coolly lays a trap for Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi) in The Return of the Vampire (1943). Source: Directed by Lew Landers. Produced by Columbia Pictures. Fair Use. Figure 4.2 The people next door: CBS's The Munsters and ABC's The Addams Family, both broadcast 1964-6, portrayed the American family as happy denizens of a gothic world. The Addams Family (pictured) was adapted from the cleverly weird magazine cartoons of Charles Addams. Source: Created by David Levy. Produced by Filmways Television. Fair Use.

Chapter 5. Edges of the Horror Film: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The Unknown (1927)

Figure 5.1 Alonzo the Armless (Lon Chaney) and his diminutive alter ego Cojo (John George) in The Unknown (1927). Source: The Unknown. Directed by Tod Browning. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Fair Use.

Chapter 6. Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood Expressionism

Figure 6.1 Jack P. Pierce's makeup for Boris Karloff as the Monster in Frankenstein (1931) became one of the iconic images of twentieth-century culture. Source: Directed by James Whale. Produced by Universal Pictures. Fair Use.

Chapter 7. Cat People (1942): Lewton, Freud, and Suggestive Horror

Figure 7.1 Simone Simon as the troubled Irena Dubrovna, before a Goya portrait including sinister felines in Val Lewton's production of Cat People (1942). Source: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Produced by RKO-Radio Pictures. Fair Use.

Chapter 8. Horror in "The Age of Anxiety:" Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Figure 8.1 Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) examines the strange "blank" found in the Belicec home in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). The movie combines a science fiction plot with the chiaroscuro visuals of gothic horror. Source: Directed by Don Siegel. Produced by Allied Artists. Fair Use.

Chapter 9. Slaughtering Genre Tradition: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Figure 9.1 Family dinner: Captive Sally's nightmarish view of the cannibal clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Fiendish production design by Robert A. Burns. Source: Directed by Tobe Hooper. Produced by Vortex/Bryanston Distributing. Fair Use.

Chapter 10. Halloween (1978): The Shape of the Slasher Film

Figure 10.1 Final Girl: Fearful but resilient Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) ventures across the street to confront the evil that awaits in Halloween (1978). Source: Directed by John Carpenter. Produced by Compass International Pictures/Falcon International Productions. Fair Use.

Chapter 11. Re-Animator (1985) and Slapstick Horror

Figure 11.1 Going head to head: Obsessive scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) revives the severed head and body of his nemesis Dr. Hill (David Gale) to initiate the absurd and gory climax of Re-Animator (1985). Source: Directed by Stuart Gordon. Produced by Empire Pictures. Fair Use.

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