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Publisher's Summary
Horror films have simultaneously captivated and terrified audiences for generations, racking up billions of dollars at the box office and infusing our nightmares with unrelenting zombies, chainsaw-wielding madmen, and myriad incarnations of ghosts, ghouls, and the devil himself. Despite evolving modes of storytelling and the fluctuating popularity of other genres, horror endures.
The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the hugely popular phenomenon of scary movies. Author Adam Rockoff traces the highs and lows of the horror genre through the lens of his own obsessive fandom, born in the aisles of his local video store and nurtured with a steady diet of cable trash.
From Siskel and Ebert's crusade against slasher films to horror's renaissance in the wake of Scream, Rockoff mines the rich history of the genre, braiding critical analysis with his own firsthand experiences. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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- S. Winchester
- 10-02-15
Great book, if you were a teen in the 80's
I did really enjoy this book. As someone who was a tween during slasher golden age, I could really relate to the stories in this book. I have seen most of the films, or will now see them. I enjoyed reliving that part of my life and enjoyed listening to someone else talk about horror.
On the downside, he does sometimes go off subject. For instance, there is a whole chapter about the PMRC and the congress hearing regarding music censorship. And sometimes he can be a little pretentious.
Overall, if you love horror movies, especially ones made in the 80's, you will enjoy this book.
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- eric
- 05-25-16
a great love letter to horror
i have had similar experiences in Chicago in my youth loving horror. this book was great. i had misgivings as it started but they swiftly disappeared.
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- Marty C
- 02-21-16
A whole lot of fun for horror diehards!
Rockoff is well informed, amusing and interesting, even when he's wrong about Halloween or pumping up some goofy misbegotten piece of horror cinema from the early eighties. I like the way he looks at different horror films in unusual ways, and seeing where he starts his analysis to when his intended point reaches full circle is a great amount of fun. He is definitely one of us, a horror fan through and through, and his love and passion for his favorite horror movies comes through in every stage of the book, culminating in a brilliant final chapter that will leave you feeling happy to be a horror fan yourself.
RC Bray reads this brilliantly, with emphasis in all the right places. All in all, this is just a super book. I listened to it while walking my dog over a series of a couple weeks. :)
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- Elizabeth
- 12-13-15
this is a fun read
I loved this book. That said I don't know if would be a good listen for someone who doesn't know horror.
I didn't always agree with the author, but his points were made well and really we don't all have to agree about any creative endeavor.
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- Tania Sandage
- 11-08-22
The Exact Book You're Looking for Slasher Fans
Rockoff accomplishes exactly what it is like to be a slasher/horror movie fan. Several points must be made.
1) This is a great job of reading and being practically invisible by RC Bray. I didn't notice one mispronunciation and the timing/pace of the reading was pitch perfect. This is why you hire a pro to do the voice acting.
2) If you are a horror fan at all, there will be at least 2-3 opinions in the book that you do not agree with. This is a wonderful thing, I think Adam is 100% wrong about Scream, and his notion that Friday the 13th compares to Halloween is laughable to me, and that's kind of the point. This is a mainstream book that you can argue with, disagree with and still enjoy because he obviously loves the movies as much as we do. It's a book that treats the genre as well as major American sports or like academics with integrity treat literature. Debate is welcome and encouraged.
3) If you are not a hard core horror fan, you will find 3-4 movies you will enjoy that you did not know.
4) The lack of any political insertion into the text of any of his opinions on the movies is so refreshing in 2022, I'd love to give it an extra star just for that. Adam talks about the movies, not how they made him reflect on his values/privilege/gender identity. Evaluating the movies on their own merits and content rather than bringing his own subtext or agenda to them is something I never thought would be noble or rare, but here we are.
Audible, put Adam's Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Movie on here. And there are dozens of similar books on this subject that we would all love to listen to on Audible.
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- Dave B
- 06-18-21
Overall Not Bad
Overall not a bad book Like a lot of these styles of writings it's a lot of the author's opinion about the subject, horror in this case.
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- Daniel Merens
- 12-14-20
Fun for horror fans!!
Definitely do not agree with everything stated, but film is objectionable and you never will always agree with people’s opinions (especially film reviews), this did not deter me from enjoying this book!
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- jwj
- 11-12-20
Rambling, with occasional insights
I thought it was pretty good and comprehensive, but it lacked a good sense of organization. The author, who to his credit often admitted to it, digressed often and went off on random tangents. It was sometimes distracting. Still, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.
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- Michael Schnell
- 02-02-20
Memory Lane
If you grew up begging mom to rent horror VHS movies, this is a nice trip down memory lane. Definitely some trivia that was new to me, but for the most part, just nice to listen to someone reminisce about their nearly identical childhood to mine. The only time I got bored was when one chapter goes off the rails into what the government was doing in response to Heavy Metal. Felt like it could've been done with a paragraph. Otherwise enjoyable.
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- Christian Ramey
- 02-21-19
The Superior History of Horror Movies!
Can’t tell you how many times I have listened to this book. Adam is a horror savant and deserves all the credit in the world. As a lifelong horror nerd who host a horror podcast, there aren’t many horror facts I haven’t heard through out the years , this book is filed with information I’ve never heard and I can walk away saying I learned something. Highly Recommend!
Christian Ramey
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Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism.
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Great overview of horror movie fans!
- By S. Winchester on 07-29-20
By: Dr. Lee Mellor
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Shock Value
- How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
- By: Jason Zinoman
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.
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A good listen, but narrow in scope
- By Billy on 01-31-13
By: Jason Zinoman
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It Came From the Video Aisle!
- Inside Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment Studio
- By: Dave Jay, William S. Wilson, Torsten Dewi
- Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment was the most remarkable B-movie studio of the 1990s, responsible for a barrage of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror classics during the last true "golden age" of the home video era. From Puppetmaster to Trancers and beyond, Full Moon transformed the VHS experience for fans worldwide, bringing the inner workings of the movie-making process into the living room, and in turn creating a ravenous fan base that remains to this day.
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Fantastic Work!!!!!
- By Stephen Imhoff Jr on 02-07-20
By: Dave Jay, and others
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws
- Gender in the Modern Horror Film
- By: Carol J. Clover
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented.
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Rich and insightful
- By Andrew Cybulska on 03-29-23
By: Carol J. Clover
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Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
- How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
- By: Brian Raftery
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999 - arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history.
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Like talking about movies with a friend
- By Shawn Inmon on 05-30-19
By: Brian Raftery
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A History of Horror
- By: Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Narrated by: Aaron Henkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels.
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Boring
- By Amy Broughton on 07-06-15
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Taking Shape II
- The Lost Halloween Sequels
- By: Dustin McNeill, Travis Mullins
- Narrated by: Christian Francis
- Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins are back to bring you an inside look at 24 lost Halloween sequels you never saw on the big screen! Learn about these fascinating unmade visions direct from their creators, many of whom have never spoken publicly on the subject before. With a running time of over 24 hours, Taking Shape II is brimming with untold franchise history. The journey begins with an insightful foreword by Halloween: 25 Years of Terror producer Anthony Masi.
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Awesome
- By Haleigh Kanouse on 01-08-21
By: Dustin McNeill, and others
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On Location in Blairstown
- The Making of Friday the 13th
- By: David Grove
- Narrated by: Mark Johannes
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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On location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning, and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before.
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good overall
- By jillybean Boomsma on 02-16-23
By: David Grove
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Chain Saw Confidential
- How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie
- By: Gunnar Hansen
- Narrated by: Gunnar Hansen
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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This fascinating literary memoir of the making of The Chainsaw Massacre comes from the unique perspective of Gunnar Hansen, the actor who played the chain saw-wielding Leatherface. A critically acclaimed poet and author, Hansen tells the real story of the film, debunking myths, giving behind-the-scenes details, and offering insights on the film's reception and our enduring fascination with the horror genre today.
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Leatherface Speaks
- By Susie on 10-16-13
By: Gunnar Hansen
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Taking Shape
- Developing Halloween from Script to Scream
- By: Dustin McNeill, Travis Mullins
- Narrated by: Christian Francis
- Length: 13 hrs
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Silver Shamrock. Thorn. White Horses. It’s all in here. Join authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins for a deep dive into the evolution of Halloween’s vast mythology. Extensively researched, Taking Shape is the ultimate guide to the first 40 years of Haddonfield history. Featuring exclusive interviews with filmmakers from every installment, prepare to gain new insight into Halloween’s iconic boogeyman. Oh, you don’t believe in the boogeyman? You should.
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Terrific book!
- By JDiNicola on 09-23-21
By: Dustin McNeill, and others
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Wes Craven: The Man and his Nightmares
- By: John Wooley
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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The life and film genius of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director Wes Craven. Wes Craven is one of the most successful and iconic horror movie directors in Hollywood. His masterful examination of the nightmarish nexus of dreams and reality helped spark a career that has spanned close to forty years. Then, with their mix of horror, sex, and humor, Craven's Scream movies helped revitalize the slasher film genre.
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Will bore you to sleep.
- By Kristopher's Korner on 12-24-16
By: John Wooley
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Slash of the Titans
- The Road to Freddy Vs Jason
- By: Dustin McNeill
- Narrated by: Christian Francis
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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From the author of Phantasm Exhumed comes Slash of the Titans, a revealing look at why it took New Line Cinema nearly 10 years and four-million-dollars to find the right screenplay for Freddy vs Jason. Featuring new interviews with the original writers and filmmakers, Slash details the production's troubled history from the surprise ending of Jason Goes to Hell all the way to the crossover’s red carpet premiere.
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Very impressed!
- By Christian Ramey on 08-10-20
By: Dustin McNeill