Creature Features Nature Turned Nasty In The Movies William Schoell by William Schoell 9781476610726, 147661072X instant download after payment.

Acknowledgments; Preface; ONE; Here There Be Dragons; TWO; Into the Ant Hole; THREE; Humongous; FOUR; Nature Turned Nasty Part One-Birds, Bugs, and Bats; FIVE; Nature Turned Nasty Part Two-Fish Stories; SIX; Nature Turned Nasty Part Three-Day of the Animals; SEVEN; The Indefinable-Blobs, Things, and Other Oddities; Filmography; Bibliography; Books and Articles; Websites; List of Names and Terms.;""Informative""--ARBA; ""a must-read ... a superb job""--Monster Memories. This work offers a critical, colorful and informative examination of different types of monster movies, spanning the silent period to today. Each chapter focuses on films that share a specific brand of primary monster. Topics covered are dragons, dinosaurs, and other prehistoric or mythological scaly giants from films like 1953's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; ""big bug"" flicks, featuring outsized insects and arachnids, beginning with 1954's giant ant-infested Them; ordinary animals that have grown to improbable propor.