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Preface

Festival One: The Animal Killdom

Willard (1971)4Ben (1972)7Grizzly (1976)10Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)13Piranha (1978)17

Festival Two: Those Darn Kids!

The Bad Seed (1956)21Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)24Who Can Kill a Child? aka Island of the Damned (1976)28The Children (1980)31The Pit (1981)33

Festival Three: The Blood on Satan's B-Roll

The Devil Rides Out (1968)38Race with the Devil (1975)41The Devil's Rain (1975)44The Sentinel (1977)47Fear No Evil (1981)50

Festival Four: Chop Chop Till You Drop

Strait-Jacket (1964)56Popcorn (1991)58Just Before Dawn (1981)6210 to Midnight (1983)65Pieces (1982)69

Festival Five: Any Portmanteau in a Storm

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)73Vault of Horror (1973)76Asylum (1972)79From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)82Creepshow (1982)86

Festival Six: Terror in Technotown

The Fly (1958)91Westworld (1973)94Demon Seed (1977)97Evilspeak (1981)101Videodrome (1983)104

Festival Seven: Back Bacon Bloodbath

My Bloody Valentine (1981)108The Brood (1979)112Of Unknown Origin (1983)115Spasms (1983)118Curtains (1983)121

Festival Eight: If You're Undead and You Know It, Clap Your Hand

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)126Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)129The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)132Zombie (1979)135Burial Ground (1981)140

Festival Nine: What the Film

The Baby (1973)144Phantom of the Paradise (1974)147Eaten Alive (1976)151Hollywood Meatcleaver Massacre (1976)154The Manitou (1978)158

Festival Ten: Duct Tape and Stardust

Invaders from Mars (1953)164Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)167Fiend Without a Face (1958)170Basket Case (1982)173Things (1989)176

Festival Eleven: Potluck of Horror

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)181The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)184Messiah of Evil (1973)188The Bees (1978)191Prince of Darkness (1987)194

Festival Twelve: Around the Weird in a Day

Blood and Black Lace (1964)200Quatermass and the Pit (1967)203Viy (1967)207Evil Dead Trap (1988)209Santa Sangre (1989)212

The Past, Present and Future of Horror: Or, How to Hit Your Word Count and Close Out the Book

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