The Most Important Horror Films of 1970
Self Published, 2019. 312 pages.
By Laura Cremonini

Let me first start out with that I sort of knew what I was getting into with this book, but am standing proud as I take one for the team, to make sure no one out there reading this every spends a penny on this book. On the book’s back cover, as well as in the Amazon listing, the author is completely upfront about the text:

“This book is the assembly of various texts that are freely available on the web, especially from Wikipedia. The next obvious question is: why buy this book? The answer: because it means you avoid having to carry out long and tedious internet searches.”

And that is exactly what this book is. The author has taken film reviews from Wikipedia and copied them in this volume. After each movie discussed, there is the link to the Wikipedia site. Even the introduction is taken from the website. Except in this intro, there is one part that seemed to get some extra works in there that the no-where-to-be-seen editor, didn’t pick up on this: Continue reading →