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| - | Andy Black is a British film critic who has published 4 books with reviews of exploitation and other films, entitled ''[[Necronomicon]]''. | + | [[Andy Black]] is a British film critic who has published 4 books with with Noir Publishing featuring reviews of visceral cinema, entitled ''[[Necronomicon]]''. Jeff Young remarks that "since the demise of Shock Xpress, there's not been much in the way of non-corporately published yet intelligent fan writing about genre and exploitation films available in the UK (unless you count the irregular products of [[Creation Books]]. ''Necronomicon'' has changed all that." |
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Andy Black is a British film critic who has published 4 books with with Noir Publishing featuring reviews of visceral cinema, entitled Necronomicon. Jeff Young remarks that "since the demise of Shock Xpress, there's not been much in the way of non-corporately published yet intelligent fan writing about genre and exploitation films available in the UK (unless you count the irregular products of Creation Books. Necronomicon has changed all that."
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Necronomicon: The Journal of Horror & Erotic Cinema (1996) Andy Black
Necronomicon: Book one continues the singular, thought-provoking exploration of transgressive cinema begun by the much-respected and acclaimed magazine of the same name. The transition to annual book format has allowed for even greater depth and diversity within the journal's trademarks of progressive critique and striking photographic content. Includes:
* Jean Rollin: The surreal and the sapphic
* Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Exploitation or modern fairytale?
* Barbara Steele: Icon of S/M horror
* Frightmare: Peter Walker's psycho-delirium classic
* Marco Ferreri: Sadean cinema of excess
* Deep Throat: Pornography as primitive spectacle
* Dario Argento: Tortured looks and visual displeasure
* Last Tango in Paris: Circles of sex and death
* H P Lovecraft: Visions of crawling chaos
* Witchfinder General: Michael Reeves' classic of visceral violence
* Herschell G. Lewis: Compulsive tales and cannibal feasts
* Evil Dead: From slapstick to splatshtick
Necronomicon 2: The Journal of Horror & Erotic Cinema (1998) - Andy Black
Necronomicon: Book Two continues the thought-provoking exploration of transgressive cinema begun by the first volume, with more illustrated insights into the world of celluloid sex and violence. Includes:
* * Jesus Franco: Sex, surrealism, de Sade
* * Russ Meyer: Mudhoney deconstructed
* * Walerian Borowczyk: Living dolls and broken angels
* * SS Sexploitation: Swastikas of naked flesh
* * Manson, Polanski, Macbeth: Cathartic blood orgies
* * George A Romero: Night of the Living Dead resurrected
* * Hisayasu Sato: Japanese avant garde porno
* * Baba Yaga/Cemetery Man: Comicbook karma
* * Female Vampire: Girl Power from the crypt
* * Argento's Women: Beauty on a razors' edge
* * Progressive Horror: Nightwatch and Mute Witness
* * Nouveau Noir: The dark world of Se7en
* * Mainstream Sickness: The true horrors of Copycat
Andy Black's Necronomicon 2 carries on where NecronomicoN 1 left off. I guess it's fair to say that if you loved the 1st one (and what's not to love? almost every page is graced with stills showing sex and horror.) you'll be glad there's more, and if you thought the 1st was pretentious there's nothing here to change your mind. Personally I agree with most of the contributors (as with such film-makers as John Waters) that there's more to discover in the movies of H.G. Lewis, Russ Meyer, or Jesus Franco, than in any fancy-pants auteur that the beautiful people might be fawning over at Sundance or Cannes. All of the articles are excellent, but the stand-out is undoubtably the incomparable Mikita Brottman's piece on Polanski's Macbeth and its relation to the Manson murders. (The article is an excerpt from Ms. Brottman's Hollywood Hex--another great book from England's splendid Creation Books.) All in all a fun read, and sometimes (but just sometimes) reading about a Euro-sleaze movie is more fun than watching one. --Ava Lomax via amazon.com
Necronomicon: Book Three (2000) - Andy Black
Book Description
Tease away the skin from the dark underbelly of this tome to reveal yet more perverse delights within the cult horror and erotic cinema universe. Included are features on Kenneth Anger, Argento`s Suspiria, Franco`s Venus in Furs, Burton`s Sleepy Hollow, Bava`s Danger Diabolik and Borowczyk`s Blood of Dr. Jekyll and much more ! --This text refers to the Paperback edition. via Amazon.com [Nov 2005]
Necronomicon: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema: Bk. 4 (2001) - Andy Black
Synopsis
Continuing on from the first three "Necronomicon" books, "Necronomicon Book Four" again seeks out controversial and transgressive cinema from around the globe. Tease away the skin from the dark underbelly of this tome to reveal yet more perverse delights in the world of horror and erotic cinema.
