The Book of Lists: HORROR
Amy Wallace, Del Howison, Scott Bradley, Harper, 2008
BY RATKO RADUNOVIĆ
The Book of Lists izdanja potiču još od kraja sedamdesetih. Tada popularni bestselerista i scenarista
Čak i nakon Valasove smrti 1990, njegova djeca su nastavila taj legat. Sin mu je objavio nekoliko enciklopedija. Najpoznatija je The People's Almanac Presents the 20th Century History With the Boring Parts Left Out, dok je
Najnovija knjiga listi u kojoj je učestvovala
Minus je sljedeći: mnogo nepoznatih ljudi daje svoje liste sa kolosalnim anotacijama i mnoge od njih su zaista besmislene obzirom da ih je većina trebala imati komičan ton. Mnogi poznati ljudi
Npr., donekle mi je jasno da Ričard Stenli ostavi svoj potpis na desetak strana ove publikacije, ali ne i u slučaju
Najveći minus stiže za to što je mnogo, mnogo mjesta ostavljeno recentnoj horror produkciji, u ovom slučaju filmskoj. Naime, vrlo malo ćemo saznati o starim velikanima, mada ćemo dobiti i listu inspiracija nekog pisca koji je napisao tušta i tma horor-trilera a u suštini je vrlo malo ljudi čulo za njega, Majkl Slejd.
Suštinski okej, ali samo okej. Ne znam zbog čega, ali očekivao sam daleko više od publikacije koja, uostalom kao i The New Book of Lists, uopšte nema korisnog Indexa na kraju knjige.
Evo par finih listi (bez anotacija, što generalno umanjuje efekat ali…):
Richard Stanley's Ten Favorite Italian Horror Movies (Plus 3 Borderline Cases):
1) Kill Baby… Kill! (Bava, 1966)
2) Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Argento, 1972)
3) Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972)
4) Lisa and the Devil (Bava, 1972)
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6) Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
7) Zombie Flesh-Eaters (Fulci, 1979)
8) Cannibal Holocaust (Deodato, 1980)
9) Inferno (Argento, 1980)
10) The Beyond (Fulci, 1981)
Three Borderline Cases:
1) Danger: Diabolik (Bava, 1967)
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3) "Toby Dammitt" from Histories Extraordinaire (Spirits of the Dead; Fellini, 1968)
Mick Farren's Ten Best of Hammer Horror:
1) Dracula, 1958
2) The Vampire Lovers, 1970
3) Countess Dracula, 1971
4) The Quatermass Experiment, 1955
5) Quatermass and the Pit, 1967
6) Rasputin, the Mad Monk, 1966
7) The Devil Rides Out, 1968
8) The Camp on
9) She, 1965
10) One Million Zears B.C., 1966
Jorg Buttgereit's Top Ten Japanese Monster Movies:
1) Frankenstein Conquers the World, 1965
2) Godzilla Vs. the Smog
3) King Kong Escapes, 1967
4) Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, 1963
5) Gamera Vs. Guiron, 1969
6) Mothra, 1961
7) Goke, Bodysnatcher From Hell, 1968
8) Godzilla, 1954
9) Gamera 3 – Revenge of the Irys, 1999
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Anthony Timpone's Ten Covers I Wish I Never Put on the Cover of Fangoria:
1) Maximum Overdrive, #56
2) Bad Dreams, #72
3) Night Life, #82
4) Dollz Dearest, #102
5) Batman Returns, #114
6) The Craft, #153
7) Species II, #172
8) Virus, #175
9) Psycho 1998, #179
10) The Haunting, #184
Tim Lucas's Ten Horror Films That Aren't Horror Films:
1) J'Accuse!, 1938
2) Pinocchio, 1940
3) Sunset Boulevard, 1950
4) The Miracle of Our Lady of
5) The Night of the Hunter, 1955
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7) Last Year at Marienbad, 1961
8) Persona, 1966
9) Gimme Shelter, 1970
10) The Green Room, 1980
Thomas Ligotti's Ten Classics of Horror Poetry:
1) "A Dream Within a Dream", E. A. Poe
2) The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
3) "City of Dreadful Night", James Thomson
4) Lead (Plumb), George Bacovia
5) The Fungi from Yoggoth, H. P. Lovecraft
6) Something
7) Nightmare Need, Joseph Payne Brennan
8) "Mr. Blue", Tom Paxton
9) "In the Court of the Crimson King", King Crimson
10) Paper Mask, Thomas Wiloch
James D. Jenkins's Ten Weirdest Gothic Novels:
1) The Witch of Ravensworth, 1808, George Brewer
2) Horrid Mysteries, 1796, Carl Grosse
3) The Necromancer; or, the Tale of the
4) The Animated Skeleton, 1798, Anonymous
5) The Demon of
6) The Mysterious Hand; or, Subterranean Horrours, 1811, Augustus Jacob Crandolph
7) Manfrone; or, the One-Headed Monk, 1809, Mary Anne Radcliffe
8) Santa-Maria; or, the Mysterious Pregnancy, 1797, Joseph Fox, Jr.
9) Deeds of Darkness; or, the
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Ramsey
1) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, 1994, Peter Ackroyd
2) The Deadly Percheron, 1946,
3) The
4) Committal Chamber, 1966, Russell Braddon
5) The Death Guard, 1939, Philip George Chadwick
6) The
7) Magic, 1976, William Goldman
8) Hangover Square, 1941, Patrick Hamilton
9) The Day the Call
10) A Kiss Before Dying, 1954, Ira Levin
11) The Hole in the Wall, 1902, Arthur Morrison
12) The Art of
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