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LIMITED DELUXE EDITION (first 5,000 copies worldwide) has black foil gilded page edges, textured cover spot varnish, and is printed on heavyweight paper stock. As featured in People, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, Empire, Deadline, New York Post, Fangoria, and more!Blockbuster box office. Critical acclaim and Oscars recognition. From
Get Out and
Weapons to
The Substance and
Sinners, the horror genre is enjoying a glorious–and gory–golden age.
Screaming and Conjuring details the films and frights that led to this extraordinary renaissance, from the release of the groundbreaking Scream in 1996 to the arrival of 2013’s The Conjuring, which spawned a multi-billion dollar franchise. Written by entertainment journalist Clark Collis (author of You’ve Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life), this exhaustively researched book is the first in-depth examination of a remarkably fertile and influential time for big screen horror.Wes Craven’s
Scream was followed by a flood of classic terror tales such as
The Blair Witch Project,
The Sixth Sense,
Final Destination,
The Others, Pan's
Labyrinth,
28 Days Later,
Resident Evil,
Saw,
Hostel,
Paranormal Activity, and
Insidious. This comprehensive history covers the often difficult and tortuous making of all these films (and many more), giving readers the exclusive lowdown on productions which were often as intense as the horrifying sights that ended up on screen.
Screaming and Conjuring features recollections from a host of genre icons, including actors Jamie Lee Curtis (
Halloween) and Neve Campbell (
Scream), directors Eli Roth (
Hostel) and Sam Raimi (
Evil Dead,
Drag Me to Hell), and legendary makeup effects artist Greg Nicotero (
The Mist,
The Walking Dead). The book also includes 200 production stills, film posters, and rarely seen images.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: “What’s your favorite scary movie?”
Chapter 2: “The way I see it, someone's out to make a sequel.”
Chapter 3: “I see dead people.”
Chapter 4: “You’re not afraid of the dark, are you?”
Chapter 5: “Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.”
Chapter 6: “There was something in the blood.”
Chapter 7: “I want to play a game.”
Chapter 8: “Demons exist, whether you believe in them or not.”
Chapter 9: “Well, now that is some fucked-up shit.”
Chapter 10: “My mother told me to be wary of fauns.”
Chapter 11: “There’s something in the mist.”
Chapter 12: “Because you were home.”
Chapter 13: “Game over.”
Chapter 14: “There is something horrible happening in my house.”
Epilogue: “Who gives a f*ck about the movies?!”
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index
About the Author
About the author
CLARK COLLIS is a British entertainment journalist who has contributed to
The Guardian,
Empire,
Q,
Mojo, and
Entertainment Weekly, where he was a senior writer for 18 years. He gew up in Wells. Somerset, and studied history at Cambridge University. He is the author of the 2021 book
You've Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life and 2025's
Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie.
