Horror Movies

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Summary: VERY brief history of horror movies
Review: Daniel Cohen's book is a short history of the horror film. It does not contain many details but rather explains only basic plot elements for a number of films. It covers the silents up through the thirties in adequate detail, but then glosses over the 1950s and skips ahead to the seventies. It also mentions some of the greatest horror films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) in only one sentence and describes them as "violent" films which offended many people. Horror Movies includes multiple photos of films that it barely mentions in the text. After chapters on the topic of horror films, it sums up their importance in one paragraph. Since this book was published in 1984 and obviously cannot include more recent movies, and in light of its brevity on some of the most important movies, I would not recommend this book.