On Sale Now: Son of Unsung Horrors Movie Review Book




One of the great things about horror movie blogging is when an opportunity arises to contribute to a project that's designed to appeal to the larger horror fan community. Case in point: Son of Unsung Horrors, a compilation of movie reviews from Buzzy Krotik Productions, the publisher of the We Belong Dead fanzine.

As the title suggests, Son of Unsung Horrors is a follow up to 2016's Unsung Horrors book. Both titles assemble reviews of movies that some fans feel should receive more attention from the larger critical community and pop culture in general. As such, these reviews include both the author's experience with the film and the critical assessment of the film's worth within the horror genre, a perspective that many horror fans should find interesting.

I've read some comments online about how the term "unsung" may not be appropriate for all of the films that are reviewed in these books, since some of them have received wide theatrical release and are known to many who do not consider themselves to be horror fans. Nevertheless, the arguments made by the writers of these reviews is that these films deserve to be (re)discovered by larger audiences, which in turn enriches the books' juxtaposition of lesser known horror films with truly obscure titles. My reviews in the first book are of Curse of the Fly (1965), Equinox (1970), and Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), and my reviews in the second book are of Hausu (1977), Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973), and Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971).

Furthermore, it should be noted that books and magazines that mix together familiar horror movies with lesser known movies is a strong tradition within the horror fan community. Even when I was the kid, the books I would read about the most popular movie monsters such as Dracula and Godzilla would include nods to lesser known monsters and films. Likewise, many horror fans will tell you how their appreciation of the genre usually began with watching films that are frequently referred to as classics and then moving on to track down hard-to-find titles that they read about in books such as Unsung Horrors and its sequel.

Click here to order your copy of Son of Unsung Horrors, and click here to get Unsung Horrors to complete the set.




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