Voluptuous Terrors: 120 Horror And SF Film Posters From Italy (Art Of Cinema)

This is one beautifully printed book for the reproduction of Italian Horror (some sci-fi) Movie Posters. The artwork is astounding and covers both Italian produced movies as well as UK-Hammer and American productions. I can't recommend a book of this type any higher!! Minimal text but the art speaks for itself.

If you love fantasy art, sex and horror movies then this book is for you! The art is from a time when women could be damsels in distress and men could be heroes trying to save them from monsters. Probably not PC by todays standards because people don't understand the difference between fantasy and reality. If you have fantasy monsters... then you can have damsels and heroes.

Unfortunately there is very little information about the many colorful and eye catching posters that are reproduced here in this book. The book is great otherwise and features plenty of film posters from the European side of fantastic cinema.

Every country has their own style of cinema poster, and the Italian sci-fi and horror genre's were especially artistic. The reproductions in this two volume set are beautiful, particularly if you are interested in seeing a different time of cinema art, prior to the advent of Photoshop.

Not worth my time and trouble to return, but I was disappointed with this. I can't recommend this.

Maravilloso libro!

very happy

Well, you pretty much get what’s advertised, which is more than Italy’s filmgoers did! Posters range from early Universal horror pics and 1950s sci-fi films to muscleman pics, Hammer horrors and later giallos. Almost all the images have a woman in jeopardy in there somewhere, if not doomed, even when none were in the film itself, and often the girls have centre stage. Italian film distributors certainly have a thing for scissors and knives. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Julie Andrews herself leaping around the hills with a kitchen knife in her hands, and all the kids behind running with scissors. Okay, I would be a little taken aback, but you get the uh, point.Many artists are unfortunately not identified; some are. Curiously, the Toho films featuring Godzilla and King Kong favour Kong to the point of not showing Godzilla at all! Elsewhere, entire cities are razed where no such event happens in the film! Some of the alternate titles are fun, too. Scream and Scream Again is called Terror and More Terror, Texas Chain Saw Massacre is called Don’t Open That Door, Shivers is Demon Beneath the Skin, Shiver of the Vampire is Violence to a Virgin in the Land of the Living Dead, The Omega Man is 1975: White Eyes on Planet Earth, and The Incredible Shrinking Man is Radiation BX; Human Destruction… which means nothing! I can’t believe there wasn’t an Italian translation for Shrinking Man, but then again, they haven’t even made it clear he has shrunk. It’s intriguing to see how films are marketed abroad, but I didn’t find any of the posters to be superior to their home country’s originals, despite the quality of Italy’s commercial artists (not to say vivid imagination), who, perhaps constrained by the film’s content, do much better work on Italy’s pulp paperbacks and erotic comics. There are barely any here that I’d look at twice.The greatest value of this book is to serious horror buffs, who I would think will find many of these posters quite new and unusual to them. Identifying some of these films from the images here would be quite the party game. All are interesting, but none of them are good enough to put up on a wall, and I’d be very worried about anyone who did!

Well, you pretty much get what’s advertised, which is more than Italy’s filmgoers did! Posters range from early Universal horror pics and 1950s sci-fi films to muscleman pics, Hammer horrors and later giallos. Almost all the images have a woman in jeopardy in there somewhere, if not doomed, even when none were in the film itself, and often the girls have centre stage. Italian film distributors certainly have a thing for scissors and knives. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Julie Andrews herself leaping around the hills with a kitchen knife in her hands, and all the kids behind running with scissors. Okay, I would be a little taken aback, but you get the uh, point.Many artists are unfortunately not identified; some are. Curiously, the Toho films featuring Godzilla and King Kong favour Kong to the point of not showing Godzilla at all! Elsewhere, entire cities are razed where no such event happens in the film! Some of the alternate titles are fun, too. Scream and Scream Again is called Terror and More Terror, Texas Chain Saw Massacre is called Don’t Open That Door, Shivers is Demon Beneath the Skin, Shiver of the Vampire is Violence to a Virgin in the Land of the Living Dead, The Omega Man is 1975: White Eyes on Planet Earth, and The Incredible Shrinking Man is Radiation BX; Human Destruction… which means nothing! I can’t believe there wasn’t an Italian translation for Shrinking Man, but then again, they haven’t even made it clear he has shrunk. It’s intriguing to see how films are marketed abroad, but I didn’t find any of the posters to be superior to their home country’s originals, despite the quality of Italy’s commercial artists (not to say vivid imagination), who, perhaps constrained by the film’s content, do much better work on Italy’s pulp paperbacks and erotic comics. There are barely any here that I’d look at twice.The greatest value of this book is to serious horror buffs, who I would think will find many of these posters quite new and unusual to them. Identifying some of these films from the images here would be quite the party game. All are interesting, but none of them are good enough to put up on a wall, and I’d be very worried about anyone who did!

Great images well reproduced. I would have liked to have seen more text to give the pictures context.

Love this book.

Envoi dans les temps et livre en bon état ! Parfait