#booksaboutmovies

[relizany]

While perusing my local public library’s online newsletter of new books, I picked up this book quite literally after judging it by its cover. I had just come off of reading “Paperbacks from Hell” by Grady Hendrix and was very curious about reading a ranking of horror films and the psychology behind what makes them scary. I wanted to read it so badly that I drove to a neighboring library system to pick up a copy.  From the introduction, “Ultimately, the final list contains films that are actually, tangibly scary and remain so after multiple viewings. If you’re the type of person like me who can’t stomach certain types of horror films (body horror, anything directed by Lars Von Trier) I highly recommend this book to give you a review of certain horror films to see what you’re missing. I also appreciated the compendium of popular films (Psycho) and off the beaten path films (The Entity, Who Can Kill a Child, Lake Mungo).  An interesting feature of the book is that the author uses infographics of Seven popular “Scare Tactics” to not only “illustrate how a particular scare tactic is relevant to a particular scene or aspect of a film, but also places them all in an infographic to summarize and rate how each film utilizes each scare tactic overall in its running time complete with time stamps and descriptions of each scene where each scare tactic takes place. For example, the jump scares in Psycho rate it a 10/10 lightning bolt scale for “The Unexpected” and rank is a 9/10 scare ranking overall.  [The Other Scare Tactics include: Dead Space, The Sublimal, The Grotesque, Dread, The Uncanny, The Unstoppable]. *It’s also helpful to have the meanings of each Scare Tactic handy as you go throughout the book so that you can remember what each one means (though they do have their own unique symbols).  This is not light reading by any means but I enjoyed it immensely and recommend it to the average, avid, and beginning horror fans out there if you’re looking for a comprehensive overview to to horror films from 1970s to present day and what makes their viewers  go bump in the night. Goodreads rating 4 out of 5.  #horrorphile #horrormovies #booksaboutmovies https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9wqbaJ7_3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[itsredwritinghood]

I finished listening to #itonlyhappensinthemovies by #hollybourne while cooking and cleaning this morning. There is a lot to like about this book starting with the whole discussion on how movies give people unrealistic expectations about how relationships are supposed to go. But I also loved that there’s also talk about friendships, bad parenting, divorce, first times, bad decisions based on avoidance, and so much more. Being a teen is hard enough, but throw in not just your mistakes, but those around you and shit gets real. Life is messy and this book gets it. #bookstagram #bookgeek #bookworm #booknerd #bookish #audiobooks #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bibliotherapy #readersofinstagram #read #reading #booksaboutmovies #yabooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CgP9FkfvrCC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=