If you are looking for pure eye candy (and are fond of movie monsters) this might be an amusing purchase. This sample is for the chapter on Werewolves. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. This is the standard layout for the book. Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares - Ebook written by John Landis. This makes each of the interviews all the more interesting due to the conflicting answers given by each filmmaker. Each interview is about two pages in length and covers the same territory. This sample is for the chapter on Vampires.īetter than these introductions are the conversations that Landis conducts with various filmmakers (such as John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, and Christopher Lee). This is the standard layout for the book. These introductions are nice, and give the reader a bit of information on each kind of movie monster. There are short introductions for each of the chapters (each of the chapters focuses on different kind of monster). Much of the text is in the form of captions for the book’s many photographs.

Monsters in the Movies is pure eye candy. This is an accurate description of John Landis’ coffee table book. The films represented here are included not because they are necessarily good or bad films, but only because of the monsters that appear in them.Īs for any movie monsters that are omitted, my only excuse is the finite number of photos my publisher would allow in the book…” –John Landis (Forward of Monsters in the Movies) Filmmaker John Landis poses with his book, “Monsters in the Movies.” From B-movie bogeymen and outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. This is a book with a lot of photographs of monsters in the movies. It is not some heavy tome on the meaning of violence in the cinema, or a ponderous examination of film theory.

Monsters in the Movies by John Landis