Author Archive for: ‘Jay Daniel Thompson’

Raymond Foery, Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece. Maryland and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 9780810877559 US $40.00 (hb) 187pp (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press) Alfred Hitchcock returned to his native England to make Frenzy (1972), which turned out to be the director’s penultimate film. In the text under discussion, Raymond Foery explores this movie’s production and critical reception. …

Marc Blake and Sara Bailey, Writing the Horror Movie. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 9781441196187 US $18.99 (hb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Bloomsbury Publishing) The front cover of Writing the Horror Movie reminded this reader of Roy Ward Baker’s horror-comedy The Monster Club (1980). Specifically, I recalled the undead family tree that appeared as a backdrop throughout …

Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies out of Sex and Life. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 9 781558616 12 7 Au$19.95 (pb) 281pp (Review copy supplied by The Feminist Press) At first glance, I thought that Hammer! would be an overview of the famous British horror film studio. A closer inspection revealed that …