Books about FILM

[tiny_tove]

[bitewerksMTB]

Books on TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE & LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (FAB Press) are a couple faves.

I have a book from Glittering Images about Japanese Pink films that's pretty cool, image-wise. I think that's the name of the publisher. I miss Xploited Cinema; they had a great selection of books. Just looked through DiabolikDVD & their bk selection is slim.

[magnus]

My favorite type of movies are spaghettiwesterns, and there´s quite a few books about it but i found them a bit dull to read i´m affraid, but those from Glittering Images, "Western all`italiana vol 1-3" are very nice with lots of pictures of old posters and lobby cards in colour. Also the long running magazine of same name is really nice with interviews with old cowboy heroes and stuff like that. Another favorite is the book "spaghetti western - the good the bad and the ugly" by Thomas Weisser as his small reviews are so confused. If you watch a western and after that look it up in this book it´s seems like Weisser have seen a different film, lots of fun.

Can also recommend three books about my favorite exploitation/horror directors/actors, all quite special guys:
Paul Naschy - Momoirs of a Wolfman
The ghastly one - the sex-gore netherworld of filmmaker Andy Milligan
Obsession - the films of Jess Franco (hard to find now, but Stephen Thrower is working on a new Franco book, i´m sure it will be magnificent)

And at last add to the Lucha Libre recommendation earlier, "Mondo Lucha a go-go", not only about the films but on the whole spectacle, much more entertaining than, the also good, "The Mexican Masked Wrestler filmography".

[bitewerksMTB]

I have a Japanese paperback on Pink Violent films that's pretty awesome. Hundreds of photos & images of posters. I have no idea what the title is.

The 2 Shock Xpress books are pretty good. I believe there's a 3rd? I think I still have issues of the magazine (I have TONS of exploitation/horror zines).

Bill Landis' SLEAZOID EXPRESS book is good too (I sold the magazines but have a bound book of all the early issues).

[Unheard]

Umberto Lenzi likes to write hardboiled novels mostly focused on italian cinema

[JHC]

Spaghetti Nightmares Italian Fantasy-Horrors As Seen Through The Eyes Of Their Protagonists Luca M. Palmerini & Gaetano Mistretta

Flickers - An Illustrated Celebration Of 100 Years Of Cinema Gilbert Adair

An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science Fiction Films - The Classic Era, 1895-1967 Carlos Clarens

The Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol I & II John McCarty

SHOCK! HORROR! Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era Francis Brewster,Harvey Fenton & Marc Morris

[tiny_tove]

this is excellent:

[Hakaristi]

Posted that on the first page, but yeah - definitely a must-have for Pink Eiga fanatics, although I'd hoped for more extensive coverage on Yasuharu Hasebe and Violent Pink films in general.

[tiny_tove]

yeah sorry for double posting I have forgotten, but since I was reading it last night I have thought to share ;)

[Nil By Mouth]

Just received news from Bloodbuster

http://www.bloodbuster.com/index.php?idlingua=1&pageid=dettagli2&idprodotto=7083

[Nil By Mouth]

usually Bizarre sinema series books are not paperback. Maybe bitewerks talk about Eros in Hell? http://www.amazon.com/Eros-Hell-Japanese-Creation-Collection/dp/1871592933

[bitewerksMTB]

I have Eros in Hell & the other book pictured but the Japanese book is from Japan, all text is in Japanese. I came across it on the DVD Maniacs forum then had someone in Japan track it down for me 4 or so years ago. I'll see if I can figure out how to post a pic of it...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Creation Books price policy (especially with this latest batch of books) is far beyond good and evil...

Again, Lasse Braun recently released his autobiography "Senza Tregua" (400 pages fully loaded with every sort of sordid memory about the infamous loops Era, plus interesting and highly detailed stories about the most known starlettes of Porn...i guess you'd truly enjoy his vivid tale of the "Hooked" backstage, with the meathook, the flesh, the dirt and the flies surrounding a frightened porn-girl laying on a filthy table of a slaughterhouse), here in Italy. Someone SHOULD really publish this in english language

Today LB creation books release arrived in mail. Hardcover, B5 size. 69 copies limited edition. All print, all full color. What the book consists, is pretty much filmography. Scans of loop boxes, sample images, and the back cover text reprinted, with little additional info (where published and when). reprint of 48 pages long Sensations film booklet. There is not much text in this book. It is most of all just kind of coffeetable art book. If you happen to have plenty of his magazines/loops etc, or read his interviews/biopgraphies, this book might not be absolutely essential. For collectors and fanatics of vintage porn, perhaps it is essential.

[Matthias]

New book about swedish "sensationsfilms" coming in April. Some of you might remember the authors swedish-written book Svensk Sensationsfilm, but this should be completely re-worked with an addition of about 50 more films etc.




Coming April 2011: 'Swedish Sensationsfilms' Book Reveals
Naked Glory of Pioneering Exploitation Cinema

Available April 1 in bookstores everywhere, Bazillion Points Books presents SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema (ISBN 978-09796163-6-5 US$19.95), a lavish and fiery 328pp retrospective of over 200 banned and cut films produced during the golden age of Swedish sin. "I was born into a rising whirlwind of madness," says author Daniel Ekeroth. "As the '70s came along, all limits were forgotten. Sweden was flooded with sexually explicit and violent films of every kind, and all morals were gone."

Sweden's sexy reputation was sealed the moment Ulla Jacobsson bared her breasts for One Summer of Happiness in 1951, crushing the Hays Code and igniting a mad race to make sensationsfilms! Produced in the backyard of the Swedish film industry, these sexually daring films form a canon of countless movies dealing with shocking or taboo subjects: street punks, sadistic mobsters, space aliens, unruly housewives, ruthless drug pushers, bloodthirsty ninjas, teen temptresses, lingonberry cowboys, bearded perverts, and drunken vikings.

Working far from the confines of Hollywood, the exploits of young director Ingmar Bergman, actress Christina Lindberg, ultra-villain Heinz Hopf, free-spirited Stellan Skarsgård, and American expats like Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, and Troy Donahue have spawned a legacy that inspired Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

With dark humor and an eye for cultural quirks that will leave readers wondering whether these films are even real, Ekeroth paints the portrait of a national cinema run amok. Special sections include two historical overviews, a recollection by starlet Christina Lindberg, a list of essential sensationsfilms, a rogues gallery of directors and cast, and a hilarious guide to curious Swedish customs.

Why does John Waters cite Ingmar Bergman as a role model? What are raggare, and why do they hate punk rockers? Can taking the name "Marquis de Sade" really change a bachelor's luck with women instantly? Why won't France or Germany make films with Sweden any more? Ekeroth reveals all... in Swedish Sensationsfilms.

For more information, page samples, and to view film trailers, visit this location: http://www.sensationsfilm.com

[THE RITA HN]

SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS: NAZI EXPLOITATION SSINEMA

http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-titles/SEXDEATHSWASTIKAS.html

Finally got mine in the mail a few weeks ago.  Great book; only 50 hardcovers made and 100 softcovers(!).
Not quite as good as the heavily illustrated color and b/w Italian Nocturno book/magazine SPECIALE EROSSVASTIKA: IL NAZI ALL'ITALIANA, but SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS is in english and is still available.  I only got #22/100 of the softcover.  It's hard to believe so few people are dedicated to this sub-genre(?!).