Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide

Bryan Senn’s work has appeared in Filmfax, Cult Movies, Shivers, Midnight Marquee Press and Monsters from the Vault. The author of numerous books on the history of cinema, he lives in Montana. John Johnson is the author of Cheap Tricks and Class Acts (McFarland, 1996). He lives in Keizer, Oregon.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction xiiiVOLUME      The Abominable Snowman      Aliens      Invaders on Earth: The 50s      Invaders on Earth: The 60s and 70s      Invaders on Earth: The 80s and Beyond      Encounters in Outer Space      Benevolent Aliens      Alligators and Crocodiles      Androids (see Robots)Animal Giants      Anthologies      Ape Giants (see also Apes and Monkeys)      Apes and Monkeys (see also Ape Giants; Planet of the Apes)      Atlantis      The Atomic Bomb (see Futures on Earth)Automobiles (see Cars and Vehicular Villains)Bathory, Elizabeth: The Bloody Countess      Bats      Bears      Big Bugs (see Bug Giants)Bigfoot      Birds      Blobs      Brains      Disembodied Brains      Living Heads      Brain Suckers      Brain Transplants      Bug Giants      Bug-People      Bugs (see also Bug Giants andBug-People)      Cannibals      Cars and Vehicular Villains      Cat-People (see also Cats)      Cats (see also Cat-People)      Cavepeople      Comic Book Fantasy Heroes      Computers      Crabs and Crustaceans      Crocodiles (see Alligators and Crocodiles)Demons and Devils      Dinosaurs (see also JapaneseGiant Monsters)      Time of the Dinosaur      Lost Worlds      Dinosaurs on the Loose      185Dr. Jekyll (see Jekyll, Dr., and Family)Dogs      Dolls      Dorian Gray (see Gray, Dorian)Dracula (see Vampires—Dracula and Family)Dreamkillers      Edgar Allan Poe (see Poe Films)ESP (see Psychic Ability)Fish (see also Sea Monsters;Fish-People)      Fish-People (see also Fish;Monsters)      Frankenstein’s Monster      Universal Series      Hammer Frankensteins      Further Frankensteins      Freaks      Futures on Earth      After the Bomb      Utopias and Dystopias      Gamera (see Japanese Giant Monsters)Genies      Ghosts      Ghouls (see Zombie Flesh Eaters)Giants (see Animal Giants;Giants; Human Giants)Gill-men (see Fish-People)Godzilla (see Japanese Giant Monsters)Golem (see Statues Come to Life)Grave Robbers      Gray, Dorian      Hands      VOLUME      Heads (see Brains—Living Heads)Human Giants      Hunchbacks (see Freaks)Hypnotists      Insects (see Bug Giants; Bug-People; Bugs)Invisibility      Jack the Ripper      Japanese Giant Monsters      Godzilla      Gamera      Other Giant Japanese Monsters      317Jekyll, Dr., and Family      Machines (see also Cars and Vehicular Villains; Computers; Robots)      Mad Scientists (see also Brains; Frankenstein’s Monster; Invisibility; Jekyll, Dr., and Family; Shrinkage)      Madmen (see also Cannibals; Jack the Ripper; Phantoms; Poe Films; Wax Museums)      Early Madmen (From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho: 1919–1960)      Early Psychos (From Psycho to Halloween: 1960–1978)      The Slice’n’ Dice Wave (In the wake of Halloween: 1978– )      381Magicians      Mars      Monkeys (see Apes and Monkeys)The Moon      Mummies      The Universal Series      The Aztec Mummy Series      More Mummies      Mythology (see also Genies; Sinbad; Sword and Sorcery)      Nuclear Holocaust (see Futures on Earth)Phantoms      Planet of the Apes Series      Plants      Poe Films      Early Poe      The Corman Cycle      Modern Poe      Psychic Ability      Psychos (see Madmen)Rats      Reincarnation      Robots (see also Computers; Machines)      Sasquatch (see Bigfoot)Satan (see Demons and Devils)Sea Monsters (see also CrabsCrustaceans; Fish; Fish-People)      Sharks (see Fish)Shrinkage      Sinbad      Slasher Movies (see Madmen—The Slice ’n’ Dice Wave)Snakes      Space Travel (see also Aliens—Encounters in Outer Space; Mars; The Moon; Venus)      Statues Come to Life      Sword and Sorcery (see also Mythology; Sinbad)      Telekinesis (see Psychic Ability)Telepathy (see Psychic Ability)Time Travel      Trees (see Plants)Two-Headed Creatures      Underground Worlds      Underwater Monsters (see Sea Monsters)Utopias (see Futures on Earth)Vampires      Dracula and Family      Hammer’s Undead      Other Vampires      Venus      Voodoo (see also Witches,Warlocks, and Cults)      Wax Museums      Werewolves      Universal’s “Larry Talbot” Series      Spain’s “Waldemar Daninsky” Series      Other Lycanthropes      Witches, Warlocks, and Cults (see also Voodoo)      Yeti (see The AbominableSnowman)Zombie Flesh Eaters (see also Zombies)      Zombies (see also Zombie Flesh Eaters)      Appendix A: Blaxploitation      Appendix B: 3-D      Appendix C: Westerns      Title Index      (Including authors’ rating, 1 –10, of 1,908 of the films)

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