![]() This is the standard layout for the book. These introductions are nice, and give the reader a bit of information on each kind of movie monster. There are short introductions for each of the chapters (each of the chapters focuses on different kind of monster). Much of the text is in the form of captions for the book’s many photographs. Monsters in the Movies is pure eye candy. This is an accurate description of John Landis’ coffee table book. The films represented here are included not because they are necessarily good or bad films, but only because of the monsters that appear in them.Īs for any movie monsters that are omitted, my only excuse is the finite number of photos my publisher would allow in the book…” –John Landis (Forward of Monsters in the Movies) Filmmaker John Landis poses with his book, “Monsters in the Movies.” This is a book with a lot of photographs of monsters in the movies. ![]() ![]() It is not some heavy tome on the meaning of violence in the cinema, or a ponderous examination of film theory. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |