Fear Without Frontiers Horror Cinema Across the Globe

edited by Steven Jay Schneider

, FAB PRESS rueUCAOON Contents

Preface 7 - Kim Newman

Introduction II - Steven Jay Schneider

PART I:ARTISTS, ACTORS, AUTEURS

Madmen, visionaries and freaks: the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky 15 - Pam Keesey

Coffin Joe and Jose Mojica Marins: strange men for strange times 27 - Andre Barcinski

Return of the phantom: Maxu Weibang's Midnight Song 39 - David Robinson

Enfant terrible: the terrorful, wonderful world of Anthony Wong 45 - Lisa Odham Stokes & Michael Hoover

The rain beneath the earth: an interview with Nonzee Nimibutr 61 - Mitch Davis

Cinema of the doomed: the tragic horror of Paul Naschy 69 - Todd Tjersland

Sex and death, Cuban style: the dark vision of Jorge Molina 81 - Ruth Goldberg; followed by an interview with the director, "Testing Molina," by Steven Jay Schneider

PART II: FILMS, SERIES, CYCLES

Fantasmas del cine Mexicano: the 1930s horror film cycle of Mexico 93 - Gary D. Rhodes

The cosmic mill of Wolfgang Preiss: Giorgio Ferroni's Mill of the Stone Women 105 - David Del Valle

The "lost" horror film series: the Edgar Wallace krimis III - Ken Hanke

The exotic pontianaks 125 - Jan Uhde & Yvonne Uhde

Playing with genre: defining the Italian giallo 135 - Gary Needham

The Italian zombie film: from derivation to invention 161 - Donato Totaro

Austrian psycho killers & home invaders: the horror-thrillers Angst & Funny Games 175 - Jurgen Felix & Marcus Stiglegger PART III: GENRE HISTORIES AND STUDIES

Coming of age: the South Korean horror film 185 - Art Black

Between appropriation and innovation: Turkish horror cinema 205 - Kaya OZkaracalar

Witches, spells and politics: the horror films of Indonesia 219 - Stephen Gladwin

The unreliable narrator: subversive storytelling in Polish horror cinema 231 - Nathaniel Thompson

The Beast from Bollywood: a history of the Indian horror film 243 - Pete Tombs

In a climate of terror: the Filipino monster movie 255 - Mauro Feria Tumbocon. Jr.

French revolution: the secret history of Gallic horror movies 265 - David Kalat

PART IV: CASE STUDY - JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA

Pain threshhold: the cinema of Takashi Miike 285 - Rob Daniel & Dave Wood; followed by an interview with the director. "When cynicism becomes art." by Julien Fonfrede

The Japanese horror film series: Ring and Eko Eko Azarak 295 - Ramie Tateishi

The urban techno-alienation of Sion Sono's Suicide Club 305 - Travis Crawford

Notes on contributors 312

Index 314