Encounter every kind of movie monster in this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind book that features over 100 monsters.
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"an intelligent and humorous read . . . the book to read under the covers late at night with a flashlight." -- Ken Beck in The Tennessean, Gannett News Service, October 28, 2005:
About the Author
Dave Elliot has worked in every aspect of comic and magazine publishing and was formerly the humor editor of Penthouse magazine. He operates a small boutique publishing company, Atomeka Press, with his partners Garry Leach and Ross Richie.
Film columnnist and writer C.J. Henderson lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, fashion designer Grace Tin Lo, and their daughter, Erica. His awards include Best Short Fiction of 1997 from the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design.
Film reviewer and screenwriter R. Allen Leider lives in Manhattan with his wife Barbara, a professional photographer. He wrote the original story and screenplay for The Oracle (1985), hosted his own radio show Cinemascene on WWFM, for five years and has been an editor for The Monster Times, Show, Celebrity, Elite and other magazines, since 1970.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good idea- lackluster execution.,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Monsters: This Book Could Save Your Life (Paperback)
I was thrilled to see this book at the local Hastings, being a monster geek and all. However, I think it could have been better:
1. Several entries were inaccurate- they claim the first Frankenstein movie was the James Whale version, which is not true. If I recall correctly, their was a silent version that was made at the very dawn of motion photography. 2. Some were redundant- there's different entries for "Living Dead" and "Zombies", along with the Gorgon and Medusa. In the, er, "real world" (as far as you can say brain-eating, walking corpses apply to it) there might be a difference, but not so much in the "reel world". (Before anyone throws a fit, let me say taht I am aware of the real-life voodoo "zombies". I just think that in movies "zombies" is practically reserved for the brain-eating type, and the Serpent and the Rainbow types should be designated some other way. Voodoo Zombies?) 3. While many obscure movie monsters were covered (Frogs? Vampire Circus? Ape from George of the Jungle?) many notables were excluded. Where's the Xenomorphs from Aliens? The Predator? E.T.? Graboids? 4. The last one might be anal of me, but there were tons of typos. I would recommend this books for monster movie geeks (duh) but I wouldn't do so heartily.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining read, but too many errors to earn 5 stars...,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Monsters: This Book Could Save Your Life (Paperback)
Like several other reviewers, I noticed a large number of factual errors in this book. The author clearly did not bother to watch many of the movies he used as source material. Having said that, this book is obviously meant as a tongue-in-cheek guide, so I suppose accuracy takes a backseat to humor.
This is a 5 star book in terms of humor and entertainment value. So I'll deduct a star for the errors and call it a day. (Note that I purchased this as a bargain book and paid ~ $5. Given that it's a paperback and <200 pages, I certainly would NOT have paid the cover price of $19.95.)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Look at Movie Monsters,
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Monsters: This Book Could Save Your Life (Paperback)
I am currently reading this book and while it's interesting to look back at same famous movie monsters, I am also, as some other reviewers have noted, a little put off by the amount of errors in both typing and information. Some of the information provided isn't even that interesting, however, I thought the pictures that were included were well-chosen. Going back to the errors, two that stood out to me personally were in the page on the Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz, the author refers to the Wicked Witch of the East as the one who sends the flying monkeys to attack Dorothy. Obviously, that is incorrect information. He also mentions Jurassic Park coming out in 1997, which in actuality is around the time the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released. The first one was released in 1993. Other errors of this nature popped up throughout the book and yet I did still enjoy most of what I was reading. I purchased this book for about $5.00 at Borders, which was just the right price. It really isn't worth the $19.95 price that is on the back cover of the book.
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