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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Creation Books (12 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1871592372
  • ISBN-13: 978-1871592375
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 1.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 673,349 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Necronomicon: Book one continues the singular, thought-provoking exploration of transgressive cinema begun by the much-respected and acclaimed magazine of the same name. The transition to annual book format has allowed for even greater depth and diversity within the journal's trademarks of progressive critique and striking photographic content. Includes:
* Jean Rollin: The surreal and the sapphic
* Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Exploitation or modern fairytale?
* Barbara Steele: Icon of S/M horror
* Frightmare: Peter Walker's psycho-delirium classic
* Marco Ferreri: Sadean cinema of excess
* Deep Throat: Pornography as primitive spectacle
* Dario Argento: Tortured looks and visual displeasure
* Last Tango in Paris: Circles of sex and death
* H P Lovecraft: Visions of crawling chaos
* Witchfinder General: Michael Reeves' classic of visceral violence
* Herschell G. Lewis: Compulsive tales and cannibal feasts
* Evil Dead: From slapstick to splatshtick
* And much more....

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2.0 out of 5 stars A somewhat Cold and Distant Tome, 27 Jun 2000
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Offering articles on a grab bag of subjects from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jean Rollin, Blood Feast, Elisabeth Bathory all vaguely linked under the banner of The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema. The failings of Necronomicon Book 1 lie in the fact that what might go down well in a university thesis doesn't translate well to a commercial book. Ultimately a good book about films has to combine intelligence with at least some signs of the enjoyment or excitement of said films,

particularly as what is discussed here are horror and erotic cinema. There exists a place in the world for books that don't rely "solely on the thematically empty gore genre, or the pseudo-intelligence of protracted film theorising" but Necronomicon sinks itself in self importance and pretentious overkill. So that even with knowledge on the subjects the book is still impenetrable, while for the curious the book might as well have been written in Esperanto. For a book that prides itself on deep thinking its also ridden with painful errors- the authors confuse Rollin's Virgin Among the Living Dead of which he only directed inserts with Zombie's Lake for which he takes sole responsibility. While no true re- assessment of Herschell Gordon Lewis can remain definitive when it digs up that old Golden Turkey mantra that he ran an abortion agency, a charge laughed off by Lewis decades ago. The book peaks on dissections of Pete Walker's Frightmare and House of Whipcord and the Marco Ferreri piece but otherwise a more cold and distant affair is hard to imagine. Freud, Jung, Bettelheim are flung around much like many of these films fling blood against walls, but at least "avowedly academic theory has certainly been fully realised in this seminal tome" bless, a sense of humour by-pass isn't out of the question though either.

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