Spinegrinder (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781909394278)

First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today's fan of horror and exploitation movies isn't necessarily educated on paths well-trodden - Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer - as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento.
In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called "godfather of gore," carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, "master of suspense."
SPINEGRINDER is one man's ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won't care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.

Author: Clive Davies
ISBN-10: 1909394270
ISBN-13: 9781909394278
Publisher: Headpress
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2015
Pages: 1100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 2.30d