Pages: 176
Dimensions (mm): 302 x 230 x 18
Hardback, 1977
Condition: Tear on front of dust jacket (see pic), otherwise excellent.
David Pirie, film critic of London Weekly, examines the archetypes of the screens most potent monster. Here then is the account of the way these bloodthirsty heroes and heroines made their way onto the screen, from the great classics of Nosferatu and Vampyr, the Universal vampire films of the thirties and forties, including Tod Browning's Dracula and the technicolor fantasies of Hammer, to the Baroque extravaganzas of the Latin cinema and polished Surrealism of the French sex-vampire movies of the seventies.
Illustrated with almost 200 unusual stills from all the major and many of the minor vampire films, many rare posters in colour, lobby cards and campaign sheets, this book is a unique and fascinating account of the most exciting and chilling moments from the fantasy cinema.
THE VAMPIRE CINEMA
