A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series

Ken Hanke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781317928812
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on older films such as the Universal and the Hammer series films on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy as well as putting more recent series into perspective, such as The Nightmare on Elm Street films. A well rounded review of these films and investigation into their success as a format, this useful volume, originally published in 1991, offers an attempt to understand the marriage of horror and the series film, with its pluses as well as minuses.

Index

A

Abbott, Bruce 314, 315, 317

Abbott and Costello 46, 47, 75

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 33, 46–47, 49

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 71, 75, 77

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 56, 57, 58

Abominable Dr. Phibes, The 245–248, 250

Acquanetta 172, 173

Adams, Dorothy 109

Adams, Ernie 122

After Many a Summer 129

Alberni, Luis 63

Albritton, Louise 30

Ames, Michael 135

Ames, Ramsay 56, 170

Andrews, Robert D. 108

Angel Heart xv

Ankers, Evelyn 30, 43, 171, 172, 173

Ape, The 137

Ape Man, The 119, 131–133, 134, 136, 138, 162

Argento, Dario 239, 286

Arkoff, Samuel Z. 245

Arnold, Edward 64, 172

Arsenic and Old Lace 110

Arthur, Jean 14, 18

Asher, Jack 186, 195, 207

Ashton, Roy 188, 210

Atkins, Tom 285

Attias, Daniel 288

Atwill, Lionel xv, 39, 42, 44, 59–69, 165, 179, 180

Avengers, The 245, 247

Ayres, Lew 275, 276

B

Baird, Stuart 274

Baker, Roy Ward 202

Balderston, John L. xiv, 24, 51, 52, 196

Balsam, Martin 226

Barclay, Joan 128

Barr, Roseanne 310

Barrett, Edith 143, 144

Barrymore, John 74

Barrymore, Lionel 7, 10

Bass, Saul 226

Ba...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Tod Browning-Lon Chaney Films
• The Warner Oland Fu Manchu Films
• The Universal Dracula Films
• The Universal Frankenstein Films
• The Universal Mummy Films
• The Lionel Atwill Films
• The Invisible Man Films
• The Karloff-Lugosi Films
• The Tod Slaughter Barnstorming Films
• The Columbia-Karloff “Mad Doctor” Films
• The Bob Hope Comic-Horror Films
• The Bela Lugosi Monogram Films
• The Val Lewton Films
• The George Zucco PRC Films
• The “Inner Sanctum” Films
• The Wally Brown-Alan Carney Films
• The Hammer Frankenstein Films
• The Hammer Dracula Films
• The Hammer Mummy Films
• The Roger Corman-Poe Films
• The “Psycho” Series
• The George A. Romero “Dead” Films
• The Dr. Phibes Films
• The Exorcist Films
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Films
• The Omen Films
• The Halloween Films
• The Friday the 13th Films
• The Nightmare on Elm Street Films
• The Stuart Gordon-Lovecraft Films
• Index