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It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium

By Axelle Carolyn
With a foreword by Neil Marshall
and Introduction by Mick Garris

Telos Publishing - 2009
ISBN 978-1-84583-020-5
$39.99, 200 pages

It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium is an amazing book.  I've never seen a book that covered the current crop of horror films going back over the last decade with such thoroughness and timeliness.  Better than that, Axelle Carolyn talks about pretty much all mini and major releases.  Just open up the book to the inner cover to see the awesome layout that features posters alphabetically of almost every horror film released over the past ten years, spread over the front and back flaps.

The book has really beautiful photos printed on heavy gloss paper.  The typeset and layout is eye catching and very easy to red.  Carolyn and her publishers have selected imagery that is atmospheric, creepy, terrifying and at times graphic.  In other words, something for every fan of horror.

Axelle Carolyn starts each chapter (year of the decade) with an overview of the biggest socio/political/economic events that certainly influenced the movies being made at the time.  Then she goes into sub-chapters to talk about the independent horror films, Hollywood major studio releases as well as attention to international pictures from Britain, Spain, Australia, Asia, etc.

Carolyn lets you know which movies she feels stand out and the reasons why, as well as the ones that aren't so good.  She does this with brevity and has a pretty even keeled stance.

Whether you are a newbie to horror or a lifelong fan, It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium delivers big time.

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