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In stock and Exclusive to Hemlock Books.. Direct from the US - the Midnight Marquee catalogue of exciting film titles, for fans and connoisseurs of horror cinema alike:
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MEMORIES OF HAMMERFully illustrated.For many, the Golden Age of British horror was the 1950s and 1960s, courtesy of what most fans consider to have been the UK's greatest cinematic export: Hammer Film Productions. What teenager could resist the lure of Technicolor blood, sexy vampires and the heaving bosoms of damsels in distress? Memories of Hammer brings together the reminiscences of the people behind and in front of the cameras at Hammer, including Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Veronica Carlson, Yutte Stensgaard, Virginia Wetherell and Suzanna Leigh, directors Freddie Francis and Val Guest, composer James Bernard and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster. Hemlock price: £16.95 Add to Basket |
CHRISTOPHER LEE: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Christopher Lee, illustrated.After many years out of print, Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome is once again available. This new US edition has been updated with two new chapters and over 150 photographs, personally selected by Lee himself. The actor most famous for his portrayals of Dracula in Hammer Horror films and Count Dooku in George Lucas’s Star Wars franchise details his childhood, war years, friendships with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Robert Bloch and Boris Karloff, and, of course, the ups and downs of his long and varied film career. A must for all horror fans.
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PETER CUSHING
(Midnight Marquee Actors Series) Fully illustrated.A collection of essays examining the work of screen actor Peter Cushing. 56 0f Cushing’s most memorable performances are examined in depth, while the annotated filmography offers capsule comments on his many other roles. Anyone interested in the enormous contribution made by Cushing—arguably the most accomplished actor ever to become a horror star—to British film, and to the cinema in general, will find a great deal of insight and intelligence brought to bear about his work and career within these pages.
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INGRID PITT: Darkness Before Dawn
(Expanded and Revised Edition of LIFE'S A SCREAM)Ingrid Pitt, illustrated
Which of the two was stranger and more exciting—the reel adventures of horror film star Ingrid Pitt, or the real-life adventures of one-time Polish refugee turned film actress, author, and Hammer icon Ingrid Pitt? Darkness Before Dawn provides the answer to that question as it follows Pitt’s life through terror-filled years in a concentration camp, post-war hardships, her break into acting, marriage, celebrity adventures, writing and work in the theatre. Pitt's memoir paints a fascinating picture that you will not soon forget.
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Italian Horror
Jim Harper, illustratedItalian Horror examines in-depth Italian horror films made between 1979 and 1994. Why those years? - They mark the release dates of Lucio Fulci's Zombie, the film that instigated the last great wave of Italian horror, and Michele Soavi's Dellamorte dellamore, the last great Italian horror film. These years, and the films they produced, have attracted little serious study, and the aim of Harper’s book is to guide the unfamiliar viewer towards the best films of the period while hopefully avoiding the dross!
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The Remarkable Michael Reeves
John B Murray, illustratedMike Reeves, a public schoolboy in the late 1950s, obtains permission from his housemaster to visit his local cinema on a Saturday. There he discovers a love of Hollywood movies, especially those of directors Don Siegel and Roger Corman, who become his idols. He dreams of emulating them. Ten years later, having directed a mere three films on a total budget of less than £200,000, Mike Reeves is dead. John B Murray now tells all about The Remarkable Michael Reeves in this intriguing biography of a talented but mercurial filmmaker, whose untimely death assured him of cult status in the annals of British horror.
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Minds of Fear: A Dialogue with 3O Modern Masters of Horror
Calum Waddell, illustratedAuthor Calum Waddell spent many years interviewing the cutting-edge horror filmmakers who talk candidly in Minds of Fear. The result is an exclusive commentary on the fright-filled classics of shockmeisters such as John Landis, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, Bill Condon, Scott Spiegel, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Tobe Hooper, Guillermo Del Toro, Bob Clark, Sean Cunningham, David Naughton, Chuck Russell, Jack Sholder, Lewis Teague and others.
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VINCENT PRICE
(Midnight Marquee Actors Series) Fully illustratedVincent Price, gregarious and accommodating to his fans, nevertheless was an immensely private man and little of his life outside of film has been revealed. Vincent Price focuses on the man as well as the actor and analyses all of the great Price performances to create an intriguing profile of a cinematic icon. Containing lengthy interviews with Price himself (conducted in the 1970s and 1980s), the book is comprised of essays on the actor, coupled with his own acerbic reflections on making the films that are discussed at length. It paints a unique and fascinating portrait of one of the most gifted professionals to have graced the horror film stage.
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YOU'RE NOT OLD ENOUGH, SON
Barry Atkinson, illustratedAuthor Barry Atkinson chronicles his childhood adventures as an underage horror film fanatic in the post-war Britain of the fifties and early sixties, when, along with his mates, he sneaked into local fleapits to watch “X”-rated horror films like Them!, Tarantula, Rodan, Blood of Dracula, Atom Age Vampire and many other lost and lurid horror/sci-fi classics. Baby-boomer film fans longing to relive the glory days of yesteryear won't want to miss this heartfelt tribute to forbidden filmgoing pleasures.
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ROMAN POLANSKI: Odd Man Out
Denis Meikle/Reynolds&Hearn, illustrated - signedThe definitive biography of internationally-renowned film director Roman Polanski, famed for classics like Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist and Oliver Twist. From his upbringing in war-torn Poland, through his entanglement in the notorious Hollywood slaying of his then wife, Sharon Tate, to his flight from American justice on a charge of child rape, Polanski’s life has been as colourful and controversial as his movies. In this illustrated 366-page book, best-selling author Denis Meikle sheds new light into the dark corners of Polanski’s life and career.
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