Ad Nauseam
Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s
Published on 25. October 2018
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-948221-05-4 (ISBN)
Description
As featured in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fangoria, and more!
Growing up in the 1980s, Michael Gingold became obsessed with horror movies, and his love of the genre led him to become a Fangoria writer and editor for nearly 30 years, as well as a Rue Morgue contributor. But before all that, he took his scissors to local newspapers, collecting countless ads for horror movies, big and small.
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s is a year-by-year deep dive into the Gingold archive, with more than 450 ads! Within these pages you'll see rare alternate art for Gremlins, Child's Play, The Blob remake, and the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. You'll also revel in oddities including Psycho from Texas, Dracula Blows His Cool, Blood Hook, Zombie Island Massacre, and many more.
Gingold provides personal recollections and commentary, and unearths vintage reviews to reveal what critics of the time were saying about these films. He also interviews the men behind legendary exploitation distributor Aquarius Releasing to learn how they built buzz for shockers like Make Them Die Slowly and Doctor Butcher M.D.
Steel yourselves, genre junkies-Ad Nauseam is an unmatched journey into the wild world of 1980s horror movies!
Growing up in the 1980s, Michael Gingold became obsessed with horror movies, and his love of the genre led him to become a Fangoria writer and editor for nearly 30 years, as well as a Rue Morgue contributor. But before all that, he took his scissors to local newspapers, collecting countless ads for horror movies, big and small.
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s is a year-by-year deep dive into the Gingold archive, with more than 450 ads! Within these pages you'll see rare alternate art for Gremlins, Child's Play, The Blob remake, and the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. You'll also revel in oddities including Psycho from Texas, Dracula Blows His Cool, Blood Hook, Zombie Island Massacre, and many more.
Gingold provides personal recollections and commentary, and unearths vintage reviews to reveal what critics of the time were saying about these films. He also interviews the men behind legendary exploitation distributor Aquarius Releasing to learn how they built buzz for shockers like Make Them Die Slowly and Doctor Butcher M.D.
Steel yourselves, genre junkies-Ad Nauseam is an unmatched journey into the wild world of 1980s horror movies!
Reviews / Votes
As featured in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and Mental Floss.2019/2018 Gift Guide Mentions: Fangoria, Blumhouse, Birth! Movies! Death!, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Daily Dead.
"Horror fans who enjoyed Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix might thrill to Michael Gingold's Ad Nauseam." - Library Journal
"A must for fans of the [horror] genre!" - MovieWeb
"Gloriously lowbrow...a fascinating look into the genre's past." - Birth.Movies.Death
"It's more than a mere coffee table book filled with retro horror movie ads from the go-go '80s. It also features prominent reviews from the time (many of which were ridiculously off-track) as well as Gingold's personal remembrances of seeing these films in the grindhouse palaces of The Big Apple." - ComingSoon.net
"Highly entertaining." - The Plain Dealer
"A love letter to the heyday of '80s horror. If you have fond memories of sifting through newspapers in the '80s to look at artwork for new movies, we highly recommend this read...it preserves a cherished era of the horror genre." - Daily Dead
"An amazing collection of classic horror trash film ads." - Dangerous Minds
"Ad Nauseam bombards us with nostalgia, and each of the 248 pages is a delight. 9.7/10!" - Horreur Quebec
"The Holy Grail of '80s horror newsprints. A must-have centerpiece for your coffee table." - Nightmare Nostalgia
"It's easy to fall in love with Ad Nauseam's historical window through the weird, outlandish takes on promoting horror movies at the peak of their popularity....a delightful treat!" - MovieMaker Magazine
"One of my favorite books in recent memory, Ad Nauseam brings back my adolescence in full force collecting off-forgotten newspaper ads that I used to pore over." - Forces of Geek
"What better way to get yourself in the mood for Halloween than browsing a selection of macabre and often over-the-top '80s horror movie print ads?" - The Wall Street Journal
"Things we love" column - Shudder
"Ad Nauseam recreates the vanished world of the grindhouses and the drive-ins by emphasizing the foreplay of the experience. We were virgins, and this is how we were seduced!" - Joe Bob Briggs
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
450+ newspaper ads from author Michael Gingold's personal collection
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 215 mm
Weight
1465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948221-05-4 (9781948221054)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
MICHAEL GINGOLD first began reproducing newspaper ads for 1980s horror films in his Xerox fanzine Scareaphanalia, and went on to become a longtime editor and writer for Fangoria magazine and on-line. He also currently contributes to Rue Morgue, Birth.Movies.Death, Time Out New York, Scream, and others. Michael is the author of The FrightFest Guide to Monster Movies and Shark Movie Mania, and has created featurettes and written liner notes for numerous Blu-ray and DVD releases.
Content
1) Introduction (Michael Gingold)
2) 1980
3) 1981
4) 1982
5) 1983
6) 1984
7) 1985
8) 1986
9) 1987
10) 1988
11) 1989
12) The Art of the Sell
13) Index
2) 1980
3) 1981
4) 1982
5) 1983
6) 1984
7) 1985
8) 1986
9) 1987
10) 1988
11) 1989
12) The Art of the Sell
13) Index