Balbo, L., Blumenstock, P. and Kessler, C. Obsession. The Films of Jess Franco. Selbstverlag Frank Trebbin, Berlin. 1993.
The fullest biography of Jesus Franco to date. The book includes reviews by critics of various nationalities and exhaustive credit lists and video release information for each film.
Chibnall, S. Making Mischief. The Cult Films of Pete Walker. FAB Press. 1998.
The first major critical study of controversial director Pete Walker. Britain's greatest exploitation film director began his career making 'skinflicks', before directing his classic English horrors HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, FRIGHTMARE and HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN. The book draws on a five hour interview conducted with Walker, and many previously unpublished photographs.
Costa, F. Umori Maligni. Milan. 1990.
The cinema of Dario Argento. Italian language.
Fenton, H., Grainger, J. and Castoldi, G.L. Cannibal Holocaust and the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato. FAB Press. 1999.
Gagne, P.R. The Zombies that Ate Pittsburgh. The Films of George A. Romero. 1st Edition. Dood, Mead & Co., New York 1987.
Gallant, C., (Ed.) The Art of Darkness. The Cinema of Dario Argento. FAB Press. 2001.
Halligan, B. Michael Reeves. Manchester University Press, UK. 2003
A biography of the lost auteur of British cinema. Reeves directed REVENGE OF THE BLOOD BEAST (1966), THE SORCERORS (1967) and WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968) but died in 1969.
Howarth, T. The Haunted World of Mario Bava. FAB Press. 2002.
Hutchings, P., Terence Fisher. Manchester University Press. 2001.
Hutchings looks at the career of Hammer's most respected director. As well as directing films like DRACULA, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, Fisher directed many other films over a twenty five year career; including Gainsborough melodramas, 1950's B movies and science fiction.
Jones, A. Mondo Argento. Brown, P.J.(Ed.) Midnight Media 1996.
Dario Argento, Suspiria, Deep Red, Inferno, Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Cat O' Nine Tails, Tenebrae, Trauma, La Chiesa, The Church, The Sect, Phenomena, Creepers, Demons, Profondo Rosso, The Stendhal Syndrome, Dawn of the Dead, Two Evil Eyes, Demons 2, Four Flies on Grey Velvet.
Kerekes, D. Sex Murder Art. The Films of Jorg Buttgereit. Critical Vision/Headpress, UK. 1994.
A study of the Buttgereit's cinema of death and necrophilia. The book features rare photographs, personal interviews with the director and his principal actors, and an on-set report from SCHRAMM.
McDonagh, Maitland. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The dark dreams of Dario Argento. sun tavern fields, 1991.
Whilst acknowledging the flaws in auteur theory, McDonagh uses it as a starting point to assess the career of one of Italy's most respected horror film directors. Each chapter deals with one or two of his films in chronological order. She draws on many sources, as demonstrated by her vast bibliography, and provides the best insight, to date, on the films of Dario Argento.
Paul, L. Italian Horror Film Directors. McFarland, USA. 2005.
Louis Paul's book charts the origins of the hallucinatory Italian horror film and features lengthy articles on ten of its most celebrated auteurs. From Riccardo Freda's I VAMPIRI (1956) to Dario Argento's IL CARTIO (2004), the book also features Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Aristide Massaccesi, Bruno Mattei and Michele Soavi.
Palmerini, L. & Gaetano, M. Spaghetti Nightmares. Fantasma Books 1996.
Umberto Lenzi
Antonio Margheriti
Aristide Massaccesi
Luigi Montefiori
Daria Nicolodi
Giannetti de Rossi
Dardano Sacchetti
Tom Savini
Romano Scavolini
Michele Soavi
Terence Stamp
David Warbeck
Bernardino Zapponi
Fabrizio de Angelis
Claudio Argento
Dario Argento
Lamberto Bava
Mario Caiano
Stefania Casini
Luigi Cozzi
Armando Crispino
Ruggero Deodato
Mimsy Farmer
Franco Ferrini
Claudio Fragasso
Lucio Fulci
Filmography 1957-1993.
Robb, B. J. Screams and Nightmares: the films of Wes Craven. Titan Books, London. 1998.
Rollin, J. Virgins and Vampires. Blumenstock, P. (Ed.). Crippled Publishing, Germany. 1997.
Jean Rollin, Le Viol du Vampire, La Vampire Nue, Le Frisson des Vampires, Requiem pour un Vampire, La Rose de Fer, Les Demoniaques, Levres de Sang, Les Raisins de la Mort, Fascination, Phantasmes, La Nuit des Traquees, Les Eschappees, La Morte Vivante, Le Trattoirs de Bangkok, Perdues dans New York, Killing Car, Les Deux Orphalines Vampires.
Siegel, J. E. Val Lewton The Reality of Terror. Secker and Warburg, London. 1972
Thrower, Stephen. Beyond Terror. The films of Lucio Fulci. Fab Press. 1999.
A thorough and beautifully presented overview of the films of Lucio Fulci, lavishly illustrated with posters, video covers and ad. mats for most of the films mentioned. This volume takes into account all of Fulci's films from his early comedies and westerns to his infamous Zombie Flesheaters (Italy, 1979), and his gothic visions of hell during the 1980's. Thrower makes references to the writings of Julia Kristeva and Barbara Creed in his analysis of these films.
