Horror for Weenies by Emily C. Hughes

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In the past few years I’ve tried to start watching scary movies a little bit more, so this book seemed right up my alley. It takes 25 horror movies starting in 1960 up to 2018 and explains the plot and common scary movie tropes that go along with the film.

More importantly though, it explains what was going on culturally at the time and how that relates to why each film was made when it was in response to the culture. Very fascinating.

Here is a list of the movies covered:

• Psycho
• Night of the Living Dead
• Rosemary’s Baby
• The Exorcist
• The Wicker Man
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Carrie
• Halloween
• The Shining
• Poltergeist
• The Thing
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Fly
• Hellraiser
• Candyman
• Scream
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Ring
• 28 Days Later
• Saw
• The Conjuring
• The Babadook
• It Follows
• Get Out
• Hereditary

Special thanks to NetGalley and RBMedia for a copy of the audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion. I was so intrigued by this that I went ahead and purchased my own copy of the Kindle book to have on hand for future reference.

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