An edited collection of writings from the first 19 volumes of the best-selling Creation Cinema Collection, which documents the world of cult, exploitation, and underground cinema by genre, and arguably forms the best library of alternative film studies in the world.
Forming a crucial sampler to the series as a whole, The Bad Mirrorincludes exclusive interviews with such directors as: John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis, as well as essays on Death film, Freak film, Transgressive cinema, Hammer Films, Beat cinema, Cannibal films, Adult cinema, Drug cinema, Satanic cinema, Manson movies, Girl Gangs on Celluloid, Psycho Film, as well as Japanese cult movie, "Cursed" cinema, and Road movies.
With combined series sales pushing 150,000 copies, this is a low-cost sampler to an established series.
From reviews of previous Creation Cinema titles by Jack Hunter:
'This title jam-packed with information and fantastic still photos. Essential.' - Book Soup
'An important overview of the more extreme milestones in an often misunderstood field.' - Bizarre
'Another one of Creation's magnificent cinema books.' - Kinokaze
'Hunter sifts through a number of different genres and manages to find surprising commonalities which shed some light on an uncomfortably stigmatized field; dense and thought-provoking.' - Your Flesh
'An absolute must for the cult movie enthusiast. Creation do for cinema what Taschen did for art.' - 6Degrees
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