Mike Mayo The Ulimate Horror Guide

It's Halloween!!! All day its interviews with the people that made the scary movies and those that write about them. From the I Heart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Mike Mayor the creator of the Ultimate Horror Guide Horror films' popularity has endured since the silent era, flaring from time to time in concert with public paranoia about the atomic bomb, mad serial killers, outof- control technology, and maniacal monsters lurking around every corner. The unleashing of technology, rapidly changing and dominating our lives, serves as an undercurrent for the ongoing wave of terror movies. The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies by Mike Mayo (Visible Ink Press / $19.95) covers the genre monstrously well, with reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror. Highlighting each era's particular fear and paranoia, no gravestone is left unturned to bring entertaining critiques of the silent killers of the ’20s, Dracula and Frankenstein of the ’30s;superbugs and atomic monsters of the ’50s, the Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween films of the ’80s, the serial murders of the ’90s, the vampires, werewolves, and zombies of today, and more. With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated gems such as Alice Sweet Alice, Daughters of Darkness and Zombie, as well as the numerous Stephen King adaptations and modern updates such as Night of the Living Dead 3D and The Wolfman, new devotees and discriminating dark-cinema enthusiasts alike will love this big, beautiful, end-all, be-all guide to an always popular film genre. A captive fan of horror films since he first saw the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mike Mayo explores horror themes from the hokey (e.g. man-eating bunnies in Night of the Lepus) to the just plain bloody. Written by a fan for fans, The Horror Show Guide helps lead even the uninitiated to unexpected treasures of unease and mayhem with lists of similar motifs, including Urban Horrors; Nasty Bugs, Mad Scientists and Maniacal Medicos; Evil Dolls; Bad Hair Days; Big Bad Werewolves; Most Appetizing Cannibals; Classic Ghost Stories; Fiendish Families; Guilty Pleasures; Literary Adaptations; Horrible Highways and Byways; Post-Apocalyptic Horrors; Most Regrettable Remakes; Towns with a Secret; and much more.