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Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear

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I have not read this book, only a small passage from Amazon. However, it was enough to prompt this note of caution.
In the single page I read, there were 2 glaring factual errors.
1. Manos, the Hands of Fate is NOT a Mexican film. It was made by a Texas lawn fertilizer salesman. Texas was not part of Mexico, last time I checked.
2. Beast of Yucca Flats was NOT directed by, written by or produced by Ed Wood. That honor goes to Coleman Francis, who was bad enough in his own right.
In this age of DVD, reference books and Rapidshare, it's hard to fathom how an author could make such simple, and simple to correct, mistakes. For that reason, I cannot recommend this to anyone who does not know these films very well. It may not make a lot of difference in this big world of ours, but things like this are important to someone, especially those film makers who have made the films in question.