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Share |About Italian Masters of Horror By techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) Zombie by liliesformary Giallo is Italian for yellow… and Horror In the wake of the real life horrors meted out on Italians during World War II, brutalized by Mussolini and then by Nazi occupation and then having their country used as one great battleground chessboard between Nazis and the invading U.S. and Allied forces, there was for a long time little appetite for horror in movies. It wasn’t until 1956 that the first genuine horror film (a vampire story) was produced and released. It bombed, soundly rejected by the public. The film would be of little note were it not f

Share |Archive By techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) His Books of Blood in the 1980s established him as a premier master of the horror narrative, on an equal level or even surpassing Stephen King, who said of him; I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker. Stephen King Like King, Barker’s works of horror have been adopted and adapted for movies, his stories becoming the basis for the Hellraiser and Candyman series and many more. Beyond his stories being used as source material, Barker has worked as screenwriter, producer, actor and director in the film world. As with Stephen King, many of Clive’s fans have found him through enjo