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A Passion For Horror
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Cinema Macabre is 233 pages long and is the brainchild of best-selling author Mark Morris. Basically it is a collection of essays, written by writers and editors etc from within the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, and about their favourite horror movies. Some of the contributors to the book include: Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Laws, Christopher Fowler and, of course, Mark Morris; who also edited the book. That names just six out of 50 contributors. I must admit that I did find Cinema Macabre a little boring and so there were parts of it that I just skimmed through rather than read properly. I did learn a few things though, and I now have quite a list of films that I want to get around to seeing at some point. A lot of the films, if I am honest, I had never before heard of, but out of those that I had heard of I learnt one or two things about them that I didn't know, so Cinema Macabre is a useful book. I just found it a little boring to try and read cover to cover. As a reference book? Very useful. The films discussed are: Nosferatu (1922)
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