Last Updated on August 5, 2021
The first horror movie we all watched as kids really is a special moment, isn't it? I remember my first horror movie was SCREAM. I was staying the night at my cousin's house, and my aunt was infinitely more flexible with the films she let me, watch versus what my parents allowed through the check out counter at Blockbuster.
Needless to say, SCREAM horrified the hell out of little Mike and scared me off of horror movies for years. Until I saw EVIL DEAD 2 in late high school. It was all downhill from there. And if you cherish the memory of your first horror movie then you might want to check out My Favorite Horror Movie: 48 Essays by Horror Creators on the Film That Shaped Them.
The book is edited by Christian Ackerman and features a massive amount of contributors (see full list below). The book is available as both an eBook and as a 240-page paperback via Black Vortex Cinema on Amazon. You can order your own copy of the book as a paperback right HERE and as an eBook right HERE.
Here is the full rundown of the book for those who feel like reading through your lunch break:
The lights go down. 90 minutes from now, your feeble mind will never be the same. Thoughts of flowers, puppy dogs, and serene shopping malls will be replaced with ghosts in your TV, zombies tearing your flesh, and chainsaws ripping through your chest! This singular horror movie experience, which caused you to forever hold disdain for preppies, wear black to family functions, and scare your siblings to death, is now embedded in your DNA! Long live horror!
Produced and edited by horror filmmaker Christian Ackerman, My Favorite Horror Movie is a ghoulish celebration of how the singular viewing of a horror film can inspire someone to find their identity and develop an obsession of dark arts. Featuring contributors with various professional horror backgrounds such as filmmakers, actors, writers, directors, painters, musicians, journalists and film festival directors, the essays in My Favorite Horror Movie celebrate classic films from the likes of George Romero, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Tobe Hooper, Dan O’Bannon, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, and many more!
Featuring the creators and crew members behind: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Terminator 3 , The Conjuring, Avatar, Final Destination, Twilight, The Devil’s Carnival, The Monster Squad, Snake Outta Compton, Death House, Sleepaway Camp, Reanimator the Musical, The Mind’s Eye, Bethany, Tales of Halloween, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2, Cabin in the Woods, The Hobbit, Passion of the Christ, The Watchmen, Cabin Fever, Puppetmaster III, Class of 1999, Victor Crowley, Swiss Army Man, American Horror Story, and many more!
And here is the full list of contributors: Alex Napiwocki, Arielle Brachfeld, B. Harrison Smith, Bill Shafer, Blake Reigle, C. Courtney Joyner, Calder Greenwood, Cerina Vincent, Chris Hampton, Christian Ackerman, Christopher Jimenez, Chuck Foster, Chuck Parello, Clint Carney, Dave Parker, Eric Spudic, Ernie Trinidad, Esther Goodstein, Felissa Rose, Frank Merle, Graham Skipper, Hank Braxton, Hunter Johnson, Jack Bennett, James Cullen Bressack, Jared Rivet, Jeffrey Reddick, Jonathan Martin, Josh McKevitt, Joshua Lou Friedman, Julia Hapney, Ken Jacobsen, Matt Mercer, Michael Gingold, Michael Klug, Miguel Rodriguez, Nick Phillips, Rolfe Kanefsky, Ryan Lambert, Sarah Nicklin, Sean Decker, Spooky Dan Walker, Staci Layne Wilson, Tammy Sutton, Terry Wolfinger, Todd Robey, Tony Timpone, and Trista Robinson.
Buy it HERE!
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