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The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, the Glossary

The Aurum Film Encyclopedia is a multi-volume reference work on cinema, published in the UK by Aurum Press and edited by Phil Hardy.^[1]

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915 film)

Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1915 American silent crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings and Alec B. Francis.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Cannibal Girls

Cannibal Girls is a 1973 Canadian independent exploitation comedy horror film, co-written and directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Ronald Ulrich.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Curse of Bigfoot is a 1975 American horror television film produced and directed by Dave Flocker (credited as Don Fields), and written by James T. Flocker (credited as J.T. Fields).

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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David McGillivray (screenwriter)

David McGillivray (born 7 September 1947 in London) is an actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic.

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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein.

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Denis Gifford

Denis Gifford (26 December 1927 – 18 May 2000)Holland, Steve,, The Guardian, 26 May 2000.

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Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now (lit) is a 1973 English-language thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from the 1971 short story by Daphne du Maurier.

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Epic film

Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Foreword

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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Hannah, Queen of the Vampires

Hanna, Queen of the Vampires (original title La tumba de la isla maldita) (a.k.a. Young Hanna, Queen Of The Vampires and Crypt of the Living Dead and Vampire Woman) is a 1973 Spanish/American horror film directed by Julio Salvador, with additional footage directed by Ray Danton, and starring Andrew Prine, Teresa Gimpera, Mark Damon and Patty Shepard.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Ivan Reitman

Ivan Reitman (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian film director and producer.

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Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.

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Jesús Franco

Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013), also commonly known as Jess Franco, was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a highly-prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies.

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José Mojica Marins

José Mojica Marins (13 March 1936 – 19 February 2020) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host.

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Kim Newman

Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer.

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King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster adventure film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin.

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Kiss of the Tarantula

Kiss of the Tarantula (released in the UK as Shudder) is a 1975 American horror film directed by Chris Munger.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut, and starring Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, and Mariclare Costello.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Maurice Tourneur

Maurice Félix Thomas (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur, was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Paul Willemen

Paul Willemen (17 August 1944 – 13 May 2012) was a Belgian-born British professor, author and essayist.

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Phil Hardy (journalist)

Philippe George "Phil" 'Hardy (7 April 1945 – 8 April 2014) was an English film and music industry journalist.

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Preface

A preface or proem is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

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Pupi Avati

Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Reference work

A reference work is a non-fiction work, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information.

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Romance film

Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.

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Serial film

A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Serial killer

A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Spaghetti Western

The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe.

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Substitution splice

The substitution splice or stop trick is a cinematic special effect in which filmmakers achieve an appearance, disappearance, or transformation by altering one or more selected aspects of the mise-en-scène between two shots while maintaining the same framing and other aspects of the scene in both shots.

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Teenage Zombies

Teenage Zombies is a 1959 science fiction horror film written, produced, edited and directed by Jerry Warren, and starring Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Chuck Niles and Warren's then-wife and production manager Brianne Murphy.

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The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction

The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction is a book by Phil Hardy published in 1984. The Aurum Film Encyclopedia and The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction are Aurum Press books.

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The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer is a 1979 black comedy slasher film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, and Harry Schultz.

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The Forgotten (1973 film)

The Forgotten (also known as Don't Look in the Basement and Death Ward #13) is a 1973 independent horror film directed by S. F. Brownrigg, written by Tim Pope and starring Bill McGhee, former Playboy model Rosie Holotik, and Annabelle Weenick (credited as Anne MacAdams) about homicidal patients at an insane asylum.

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The Haunted Palace

The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer.

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The Mephisto Waltz

The Mephisto Waltz is a 1971 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, and Curt Jürgens.

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The Narrow Road (1912 film)

The Narrow Road is a 1912 short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced and distributed by the Biograph Company.

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The Overlook Press

The Overlook Press is an American publishing house based in New York, New York which considers itself "a home for distinguished books that had been 'overlooked' by larger houses".

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American comedy horror film written and directed by Dan O'Bannon (in his directorial debut) from a story by Rudy Ricci, John Russo, and Russell Streiner, and starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Mathews, and Don Calfa.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.

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Tim Lucas

Timothy Ray Lucas (born May 30, 1956) is an American film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter and blogger, best known for publishing and editing the video review magazine Video Watchdog.

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Tom Milne

Tom Milne (2 April 1926 – 14 December 2005) was a British film critic.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Video Watchdog

Video Watchdog was a bimonthly, digest size film magazine published from 1990 to 2017 by publisher/editor Tim Lucas and his wife, art director and co-publisher Donna Lucas.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Zaat

Zaat is a 1971 American independent science fiction horror film produced and directed by Don Barton, and co-written by Barton, Lee O. Larew and Ron Kivett.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aurum_Film_Encyclopedia

Also known as The Overlook Film Encyclopedia.

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