John McCarty's Official Splatter Movie Guide: Hundreds More of the Grossest, Goriest, Most Outrageous Movies Ever Made (Official Splatter Movie Guide)

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Summary: Splatter Movies- Taboo's are are blown apart in this book
Review: Having purchased and read the first Splatter Movie Guide (also by John McCarty) I was wondering what to expect from this book. There was only a three year gap written between the two, and in the original almost every splatter movie you could think of was included. All of the expected were featured in the original- Friday the 13th, low budget Italian shockers produced with hardly any budgets, and mainstream American films. In the period between when the books were written there was very few splatter films to come out, so I thought the author and his cohorts would have have very few materials to work from. I was inncorrect. It seems this book actually includes more reviews than the first. Obscure titles such as Brain Dead (aka Dead Alive) are featured, and the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series are updated. All reviews are informative, scathing (in some cases) and each has a dash of humor, as is expected when dealing with a subject as ridiculous as the Splatter movie. The book inspires you to go out and track down some of the films that he mentions ( some of which can be found on this site). The only problem however is the lack of movies mentioned from futher afeild such as the Eastern European splatter film (although I doubt there are many) and some of the reviews are sparse. Despite that setback, I would recommend this book to any horror enthusiast, aswell as the more mainstream thriller fan (as films like Silence of the Lambs are included.)