Zinoman writes with a strong narrative drive and a contagious charisma.", Insightful, revealing, and thoroughly engrossing…Thoroughly researched, Shock Value is chock full of nuggets of insider details that even the most hardcore horror fan might not know., ncentrates on a handful of films and filmmakers that brought the corpse back to life during the late 1960s and early '70s, and he convincingly conveys what made movies like ''Night of the Living Dead'' and ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' different from anything that had come before: more unsettling, purer in their sense of dread.where Shock Value excels is in its primary research, the stories of how the seminal shockers of this era came to be., "Impassioned, articulate prose.Zinoman is such a literate, intelligent defender of the cause that his arguments are well worth reading. "Not only is Shock Value enormously well-researched - the book is based on the author's interviews with almost all of the movement's principals - it's also an unbelievable amount of fun.
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