This hefty volume written by Kim Newman is actually two books in one - the original "Nightmare Movies" written in the 80s (but updated by new footnotes) and "New Nightmares" a recent work that covers releases in the last 20 odd years. The second part is much better written IMHO.
Basically Newman takes a sub-genre at a time and discusses all the related movies in that niche, how they relate, what they were inspired by and what they went on to inspire. I enjoyed his synopsis of films I'd never heard of before and his witty put downs of lousy productions..but some times it became endless lists of titles, directors and actors which bored me silly.
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