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Creature Features

by John Stanley
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Overview

With smash-hit films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, and The Phantom Menace breaking Hollywood records, it's obvious that sci-fi, fantasy and horror films are back—and bigger than ever before.

Updated to include the most recent movie mega-hits, Creature Features has it all—the shockers, schlockers, blockbusters, bombs, cult faves, rare gems, classics, groundbreakers, gorefests, space operas, sorcery, Euro-splatter, and everything in between. From features, made-for-televsion, and straight-to-video, here are all the films you love and hate; the films you forgot about and never knew existed. Horror and science fiction fans will find films that matter and films that splatter in one critical and humorous guide.

Featuring

• Thousands of capsulized reviews

• A five-star rating system

• Hundreds of obscure and rare titles

• Video distribution informaton (including mail order)
*Cross-references to secondary titles, sequels and tricky retitlings

• And more.

John Stanley's Creature Feature movie guides have been Bay Area cult favorites for years. It includes thousands of critical and humorous reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror films from every medium--features, straight-to-video, and TV (network, syndicated and cable). Original.

Synopsis

A new updated edition of the ultimate midnight movie guide...

With smash-hit films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, and The Phantom Menace breaking Hollywood records, it's obvious that sci-fi, fantasy and horror films are back--and bigger than ever before.

Updated to include the most recent movie mega-hits, Creature Features has it all--the shockers, schlockers, blockbusters, bombs, cult faves, rare gems, classics, groundbreakers, gorefests, space operas, sorcery, Euro-splatter, and everything in between. From features, made-for-televsion, and straight-to-video, here are all the films you love and hate; the films you forgot about and never knew existed. Horror and science fiction fans will find films that matter and films that splatter in one critical and humorous guide.

Featuring
Thousands of capsulized reviews
A five-star rating system
Hundreds of obscure and rare titles
Video distribution informaton (including mail order)
Cross-references to secondary titles, sequels and tricky retitlings
And more.

"I keep two reference works by my bed at all times. One is Eric Weber's How to Pick Up Girls. The other is John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide. Never has so much worthless information been gathered together in one place. I'm in awe of the man." --Joe Bob Briggs

"A Must." --Leonard Maltin

"The Leonard Maltin of horror." --Fangoria

John Stanley hosted the popular Creature Features TV series in the San Francisco Bay area for six years. He has covered the science fiction, fantasy, and horror scene for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than thirty years. He has interviewed dozens of superstars and genre stars.

Internet Book Watch

This science fiction, fantasy and horror movie guide provides an excellent survey of the genre to fans who are avid movie-watchers: chapters provide capsule reviews of thousands of films, provide a rating system and guide to obscure and rare as well as mainstream titles, and include distribution and mail order information. Outstanding.

About the Author, John Stanley

John Stanley hosted the popular Creature Features TV series in the San Francisco Bay area for six years. He has covered the science fiction, fantasy, and horror scene for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than thirty years. He has interviewed dozens of superstars and genre stars.

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This science fiction, fantasy and horror movie guide provides an excellent survey of the genre to fans who are avid movie-watchers: chapters provide capsule reviews of thousands of films, provide a rating system and guide to obscure and rare as well as mainstream titles, and include distribution and mail order information. Outstanding.

Book Details

Published
August 1, 2000
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Pages
608
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780425175170

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