Horror Film

Acknowledgments vii

List of Illustrations xiii

1 Introduction: Undying Monsters 1

2 A Short History of the Horror Film, Beginnings to 1945 27

3 A Short History of the Horror Film, 1945 to Present 83

4 Monsters Among Us: Cases of Social Reception 157

5 Edges of the Horror Film: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The Unknown (1927) 183

6 Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood Expressionism 197

7 Cat People (1942): Lewton, Freud, and Suggestive Horror 215

8 Horror in "The Age of Anxiety": Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 231

9 Slaughtering Genre Tradition: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 247

10 Halloween (1978): The Shape of the Slasher Film 267

11 Re-Animator (1985) and Slapstick Horror 283

12 Demon Lover: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 293

13 Get Out (2017): The American Horror 307

Afterword to the First Edition: Our Haunted Houses 325

Afterword to the Second Edition: Dark Universes 333

Appendix: Horror Auteurs 339

Notes 347

Works Consulted 385

Index 399

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