Necronomicon II: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema (Bk. 2) [Paperback]

Andy Black (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1998 | Series: Necronomicon

Necronomicon: Book Two continues the thought-provoking exploration of transgressive cinema begun by the first volume, with more illustrated insights into the world of celluloid sex and violence. Includes:
* Jesus Franco: Sex, surrealism, de Sade
* Russ Meyer: Mudhoney deconstructed
* Walerian Borowczyk: Living dolls and broken angels
* SS Sexploitation: Swastikas of naked flesh
* Manson, Polanski, Macbeth: Cathartic blood orgies
* George A Romero: Night of the Living Dead resurrected
* Hisayasu Sato: Japanese avant garde porno
* Baba Yaga/Cemetery Man: Comicbook karma
* Female Vampire: Girl Power from the crypt
* Argento's Women: Beauty on a razors' edge
* Progressive Horror: Nightwatch and Mute Witness
* Nouveau Noir: The dark world of Se7en
* Mainstream Sickness: The true horrors of Copycat
* And much more....

Editorial Reviews

Review

Lovingly produced and amply illustrated...engaging...Heady stuff. -- Sight and Sound

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Creation Books (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1871592380
• ISBN-13: 978-1871592382
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,037,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Necronomicon II: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema (Bk. 2) (Paperback)

Andy Black's NecronomicoN 2 carries on where NecronomicoN 1 left off. I guess it's fair to say that if you loved the 1st one (and what's not to love? almost every page is graced with stills showing sex and horror.) you'll be glad there's more, and if you thought the 1st was pretentious there's nothing here to change your mind. Personally I agree with most of the contributors (as with such film-makers as John Waters) that there's more to discover in the movies of H.G. Lewis, Russ Meyer, or Jesus Franco, than in any fancy-pants auteur that the beautiful people might be fawning over at Sundance or Cannes. All of the articles are excellent, but the stand-out is undoubtably the incomparable Mikita Brottman's piece on Polanski's Macbeth and its relation to the Manson murders. (The article is an excerpt from Ms. Brottman's Hollywood Hex--another great book from England's splendid Creation Books.) All in all a fun read, and sometimes (but just sometimes) reading about a Euro-sleaze movie is more fun than watching one.